Learning Intentions:
- To follow a recipe to make Viennese Finger biscuits
Step 1: Activity overview for parent, carers and pupils
This is a cooking activity that will need to be supervised by an adult.
The main activities can be completed offline.
Step 2: Introduction to the activity and additional information
Today you are going to make some Viennese Finger biscuits. These are delicious melt in your mouth biscuits.
It is important that you let your child do as much as they can themselves, for example weighing the ingredients, adding, stirring and piping the mixture.
If you do not have a piping bag and nozzle don’t worry you can roll the mixture into walnut sized balls between your well-floured hands, then press them down gently with the back of a fork to make a disc.
This is a fun recipe with lots of steps in it for your child to get involved in.
Step 3: Tasks to carry out for this activity
Activity 1 – Making Viennese Finger Biscuits
Requires adult support
Follow the recipe below to make your Viennese Finger biscuits. This activity is about cooking together, with your child doing as much as possible with your support.
Gather together all the equipment and ingredients that you will need.
Equipment
- A large mixing bowl
- Kitchen scales
- Fork
- Wooden spoon
- Baking tray
- Cooling rack
- Piping bag and nozzle if you have one.
- A tall glass
Ingredients
- Butter
- Icing sugar
- Plain flour
- Corn flour
- Jam
- Plain chocolate
Help your child to weigh out the ingredients. First and most importantly wash your hands.
Follow the recipe to make the Viennese Finger biscuits.
Allow them to mix the ingredients together, pipe the dough or roll into balls and dip in chocolate etc.
- WARNING – The adult must put the biscuits into the oven and take them out when they are cooked.
Take care because the tray and cookies will be hot when they first come out of the oven.
- WARNING – The adult must melt the chocolate.
Don’t forget to get your child to help clear and wash up.
Viennese Fingers Biscuit Recipe
Enjoy your Viennese Finger biscuits with a glass of milk don’t forget to share them with your family.
Once you have completed the task you can email anything you create (photos, documents, screenshots etc.) directly to your teacher or directly upload it to any of the available places in Step 5.
Step 4: Look over the success criteria for this activity:
Success criteria #1: I can follow a recipe to make Viennese Finger biscuits.
Success criteria #2: I can share with my family.
Look at the learning intentions ‘how well do you think you have done?’
Step 5: Upload your work
Click on the relevant link below if you have any work to upload to your online areas