Lesson Plan #6

Week 6 of our Elective has come and gone.

The Pazookie or Pizookie style Chocolate Chip Lava Cookies were a big hit. We had fun making these little tasty bites.

This week the kids learned the importance of reading the recipe first. We used two separate bowls for our ingredients. The kids were taught to use the bigger bowl for the wet ingredients since we would be combining the dry ingredients into the wet ingredient bowl. They learned how easy it is to create a chocolate lava. Melt chocolate chips in a Ziploc bag in the microwave, snip the corner of the baggie and use it like a piping bag. Everyone had the opportunity to help make the cookies, spoon them into the mini muffin tins, create a well, pipe in the melted chocolate and flatten out an additional piece of dough to cover the top of the cookie.

I explained to the kids that they can make these in any size muffin tin. The baking time would need to be adjusted accordingly. Get creative and add some pumpkin spices to the cookie dough. Instead of adding chocolate chips, add white chocolate chips and melt Hershey's pumpkin candy kisses in a Ziploc baggie and pipe that into the center, this will give it a nice Fall(ish) taste. :)