Baking Club Gets Creative with Colourful Cookies and Guest Chef Visit

The Junior School Baking Club (#rsgcbakes, the current iteration of Les Petits Chefs) welcomed guest chef/baker @adell_shneer of @arttoeatcookies into the school this week! She's our first in-person cooking club guest chef in five years! (The cooking club ran online through the pandemic, and while we welcomed many guest chefs to that version of the club, we haven't had an in-person visit since March 2020. This was Adell's 14th visit to work with our students since 2011!)

Students enjoyed a mini-lesson in colour theory and collaborated to choose 12 different colours for the icing (and problem-solve when we ended up with too many blues!). Then, they learned how to mix the royal icing to *just* the right consistency. Adell showed them how to pipe the edges of the cookies, "flood" the centres with colour as well as a few different patterning techniques. The focus and concentration were as impressive as the creative cookies making their way home after the session!

Thank you, Adell, for sharing your expertise with us and bringing some colour to a winter day!