Larrier's Cooking Club - January 2013

Karl

Today in cooking club we made chocolate chip cookies.  I really enjoyed the mixing.  I cracked an egg for the first time and was so glad that I got no egg shell in the cookie mix.  We made loads of cookies so we were able to give some to the senior boys who were having a meeting about their French trip, Úna said they loved them.  

 

I like cooking, my favourite thing to cook at home is the “Karl Bag of Wonder”, it’s my own secret recipe, you put everything you love into a tortilla wrap, and fold it tight like a bag – everyone I’ve made it for says it’s delicious.  

 

Evan

I really enjoyed making the cookies today, I used a big knife to carefully cut all the chocolate into small pieces.  I also helped cut the dough into cookies and put them on the baking tray.

We made a mistake by putting all the cookie pieces too close together on the baking tray so when they cooked the mixture spread out and stuck together.  Then instead of 12 small cookies there was one giant cookie BUT this wasn’t a mistake for me, we had made a GIANT PIZZA COOKIE, it was brilliant!  When I make the cookies at home with my Ma I’m definitely going to make this mistake again.  

 

 

If you would like to try the recipe here it is. 
Remember always have an adult with you when you are cooking.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Makes 10

§  75g of dark chocolate (or use a mixture of what you have at home)

§  110g butter
§  110g caster sugar
§  1 egg yolk
§  125g self raising flour

 Equipment:      Baking tray, 2 sheets of greaseproof paper, chopping board, knife, fork,

sieve, mixing bowl, wooden spoon and oven gloves.

1.      Carefully chop the chocolate into small chunks and leave to one side.

2.      Beat the butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl with a wooden spoon until light and creamy, then mix in the egg yolk. 

3.      Sift the flour onto the butter and sugar,  using a fork bring together to a soft dough.

4.      Carefully mix in the chocolate chunks.
5.      Dust one piece of greaseproof paper with flour and turn the cookie dough onto it.  Shape into a cylinder and place in the fridge to firm up (this takes about 30 minutes).
6.      When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 170⁰c/Gas mark 3.  Take the dough from the fridge and cut into slices about 1cm thick.  Place on the baking sheet leaving plenty of room for the cookies to spread out.
7.      Bake for 20 minutes until the cookies are just turning golden brown.
8.      Transfer these to a wire rack and leave to cool.

The Boxing Exhibition, National Stadium, Tuesday, 12th December, 2012

On December 12th all the Larriers went on tour to the Nationl Stadium to cheer on our lads in the IABA/DCC Dublin Primary Schools Boxing Exhibition. It was a great day out with some super bouts. Our boxers even got to have Olympic gold medal boxing legend Michael Carruth as a corner man!

Well done to the five Larrier legends Cian, Dylan, Johnny, Dillon and Kian who fought on the day and collected their Gold Boxing Award Certificates and gold medals.

Well done also to the thirty plus  Larriers who completed the Bronze Boxing Certificate back in September/October and those who contiued and achieved the Silver Certificate in November. Many will be back to go for gold next September.

Our sincere thanks to Paul Quinn, Paddy, Michael Carruth and all the IABA/DCC team for this super initiative. We especially thank them for the opportunity the lads trying for the Gold Certificate got to train at Ireland's High Performance Boxing Gym and to meet and watch our Olympic Boxing heros in training. 

Some day it could be us!

A special word of thanks to Dublin Bus, especially Eugene and Mark, who always get us there and back again and without whom there would be no Larriers on Tour at all.