Chocolate Fruit Sundaes

Today was the first session of the new cooking club at Kents Hill School. The aim was to learn about kitchen safety and hygiene and to focus on practising some knife skills whilst making some yummy chocolate fruit sundaes.

Each of the six children were given important kitchen jobs and to go with that big badges with chef names - Head chef, sous chef, chef de partie and so on. Today our "Celebrity Chef" was Amy and here she shows you how to make chocolate fruit sundaes

Chocolate Fruit Sundaes

Ingredients

110g chocolate

10g butter

2 tablespoons golden syrup

2 tablespoons water

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

A selection of fresh fruit such as strawberries, bananas, grapes, melon, pineapple

A tub of vanilla ice-cream

1) Start by making the chocolate sauce. Get a grown up to boil a kettle of water and pour some into the bottom of a saucepan. Break the chocolate into a bowl and place this over the pan of boiling water.

2) Stir the chocolate until it has melted then add the butter, syrup, water and vanilla extract and stir until it makes a smooth sauce.

3) Put the sauce to one side then using the claw and bridge holds chop up your pieces of fruit.

4) Get a big glass or plastic tumbler and put together your fruit sundae by putting in pieces of fruit, dollops of ice-cream and pouring in some chocolate sauce.

5) Then eat it! Yummy and one of you five a day!

Next time, try threading pieces of fruit onto a wooden skewer to make a fruit kebab.

The end of the first session and a successful afternoon for everyone!