Whipping Up Wellness

Culinary Arts 2 students planned and prepared cookie recipes that met national nutritional standards:

General Standards:

Must meet one of the following:

• Be a whole grain-rich product (at least 50% whole grain by weight or 1st ingredient listed)
• Have a fruit, vegetable, dairy product, or protein food as the first ingredient
• Be a combination food that contains at least ¼ c fruit
• Contain 10% daily value of calcium, potassium, vitamin D, or dietary fiber

Nutrient Standards

Must meet ALL of the following:

• Calories are less than 200 calories
• Fat:
• Less than 35% of calories from fat
• Exemptions: Nuts, seeds, nut/seed butters, dried fruit with nuts or seeds (with no added nutritive sweeteners or fat)
• Less than 10% of total calories from saturated fat
• Exemptions: Nuts, seeds, nut/seed butters, dried fruit with nuts or seeds (with no added nutritive sweeteners or fat)
• 0 g trans fats
• Sodium:
• Less than 200 mg
• Sugar:
• Less than 35% of weight from total sugar

Collaborating with Ms. Mathiessen (Pulaski Community School District Food Service Director), students followed the standards in developing their recipes and then preparing samples for students to try.

Final Cook-Off of the School Year

Family Foods students celebrated the end-of-the-year by preparing

Sugar Cut-Out Cookies w/ Powdered Sugar Icing.

Ice-Box Cookies

Sprinkles and icing and cookies and love

Family Foods prepped for the holiday season with cut-outs

Cookie Challenge 1st Semester Winners & Entries

Thanks to all who voted for the cookie challenge! Our winners this semester came from Entry 1: Fall Fest!  Now we've moved onto cake decorating- check back for our entries!

                                   

Cookie Decorating Challenge Winners

Votes were plentiful and the winners are announced- "Your Lucky Day!" wins!!! Thanks for all of the votes!
                              

Cut that out! No, really, I'm being literal here...

Family Foods students got their holiday groove on making 

Sugar Cut-Out Cookies w/ Powdered Sugar Icing.

                                            

CrAzY About Cooooookies- The Process, The Pictures, The WINNERS!

Thank you to all who voted for their favorite collection of 

Advanced Foods CrAzY About Cooooookies.  The winners...GROUP D!!!   

 Here were the other 

awesome entries!  

Check out the students below as they progress through their cookie decorating process...

Designing the cookie

Decorating Extraordinaire! 

Proud... and should be :)

Cut that Out! Cook-Off Winners

It doesn't need to be the holidays to make cut-out cookies; 

you just need to wait long enough for the seniors to graduate :)

An Enthusiastic & Seasoned Judge

Hr 1 WINNERS!

Hr 2 WINNERS!

Hr 3 WINNERS!

Family Foods Butterscotch Gingerbread Cook-Off!

The Family Foods students finally had their first opportunity to join the ranks of the PHS culinary elite as they became members of the cook-off competitors at PHS preparing Butterscotch Gingerbread Cookies (warm and delicious enough to melt anyone's heart)

HOUR 1 WINNERS!!!

HOUR 2 WINNERS!!! (and Mrs. Wojcik :))

HOUR 3 WINNERS!!!

Although we had our first winners, all of the Family Foods students were able to bake and enjoy their first complete recipe prepared in class.  What's for next week, you ask? A knife skills extravaganza!!! Students will be learning proper knife techniques including dicing, chopping, slicing, and mincing to prepare hash browns and then microwave apple crisp.  Pics and updates to come!