Lesson Six – Baking Cakes

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read and follow a set of instructions to bake and decorate some different cakes that can be sold to the customers in a cafe.
The class can suggest some of the different changes and improvements that could be made to the icing designs for their cupcakes to match a specific theme or idea.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to read and follow a set of instructions to bake and decorate some different cakes that can be sold to the customers in a cafe
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify the sequence of a set of instructions about how to make a product to sell in a cafe and a shared reading text to read and follow some instructions about how to bake and decorate cakes to sell in a cafe.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to read and follow a set of instructions to bake and decorate cakes to sell to customers in a cafe.
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to select and combine different ingredients to design and make a range of foods including sandwiches and cakes that can be sold in café in a city location. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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