Food
It’s time for the ‘Great Torrisholme Bake off’!
Year 4 have been tasked with baking an 80’s dinner party classic… the vol au vent!
First step - key knowledge
- The eat well plate
- Food groups
- How to eat a balanced and varied diet
Next step - exploring the product
- appearance
- smell
- texture
- taste
Finally - identify fillings and design a sweet and savoury vol au vent whilst considering filling combinations and how they might complement each other.





























Prepping the ingredients for our fillings


















Our vol au vents are cooked to perfection! Golden, crispy, flaky, airy - no soggy bottoms here!
Combining ingredients to fill our savoury and sweet vol au vents


































Evaluating appearance, smell, texture and most importantly taste!









Day 2 at the vol au vent ‘filling station’ - it’s time to improve our tasty ‘wafts of air’. Check out the improvement 🤩
























The final product!



























Home time treats for chilly grownups...and hungry children 😋



















