01/11/2011 Blue Peter

Hello. Hello. Today, we are hoping to prove to you that baking is

simple and easy. Baking, not eating, they're not for you.: sorry.

Children in need is around the corner, but there's still time for

you to get involved and support Children In Need by baking. Our

skills in the kitchen are kind of limited. Speak for yourself, I make

a lovely quiche. We have got an expert joining us. He was spot -

spotted by Jamie Oliver and now he's the host of Junior Bake Off.

You can catch it at 6.0 every night this week on the CBBC channel.

the very best of Britain's budding bakers are in the mix. Am I getting

on your nerves? Who will rise to the challenge? It's going to be

very tough. It's Aaron Craze. Come on in. Wouldn't it be amazing if

the badges were that size. Welcome to the show. Talk about the

contestants on your show. Not only do they have to perform in front of

the TV crew, they have judges watching their every move. They

must find it tough? Unbelievable. They're little soldiers, I must

admit. It's so difficult to bake something because it's a science,

baking. To have all those cameras and me coming over going "what are

you doing..." and that all the time must be annoying. You were singing

their praises before. Sounds like these guys are really creative?

They are. They get set challenges, they have their tasks but then they

have to be creative and they make things like, some of the stuff they

make you will be like, how do they do that with flour and eggs, do you

know what I mean? Hopefully you won't be saying that today. You

will be cooking today helping us support our appeal. What do we do?

This is a basic biscuit recipe, so we are going to put some flour in,

a bit of plain flour in there. Butter. You can chop it up, but I'm

just going to pop it in soft, unsalted butter. Don't want any

salt in it. Sugar. Caster sugar. Pop that straight in. So we've got

the sweet, creaminess going on. The egg will bind it all together. And

flavour. Vanilla. You carry on. You, you've been eating some.

haven't. Get out. Barney, Children In Need, yeah, you're not a child.

We are trying to prove to you that it's easy and you are a hindrance.

Carry on. Mix it all together or you can use a food processor. Go,

go, go, look! That was a bit hard, sorry. Ouch. B So we mix this all

together. You do that, I'll keep my hands nice and clean. OK. Because

obviously I know what you are like at rolling, the word has spread, so

we've got one ready. You can have a little roll. Not too much. That's

it. Well done. Pressure in the kitchen. What is that? The most

pathetic fishing rod I've ever seen. Get out! If you haven't got a

rolling pin indoors, hello, a tin! Or you can use a wine bottle or

something like that. Is that for a biscuit size? No, for rolling the

dough. Oh. We want to get this ready by the end of the show. Pop

them in the oven when it's nice and hot. When it comes out... Behave

yourself, please. I will. Make sure it's nice and cold on to the non-

stick baking tray. Chuck it in the oven. While you are doing that,

let's stick with the theme of food because this time of year sees lots

of changes in the woodlands and forest areas and lots of things

fall from trees, not just leaves but things that you can cut with.

Rav Wilding is on the case. When I'm off duty, there's nothing I

like more than taking a stroll with a picnic. But, what if I was to

tell you that cordial, jam, cake, jelly and biscuits can all be made

with ingredients found in the countryside. Foraging is the act of

searching for food but could also be described as making good use of

nature's la Da. This year has been one of the most successful years of

wild fruit. Eating the wrong food can be dangerous. You should only

try it under expert supervision. Meet Chris, the King of foraging.

He'll show me how to make some skreet treats using ingredients

from this woodland -- sweet treats. Can anyone do this? You have to

know what you are doing was a there are poisonous things out there, but

you can learn very, very quickly. What sort of tasty treats can be

out in the wilderness like this? autumn, this time of year, we've

got berries, nuts, roots, I've got a few things for you to get today.

How do I know which ones to get? Use your smartphone, get dandelion

roots, berries, rose hips and hawthorn. Basket and spade. Thank

you. I'll leave you do it. What am I gonna do now?! First on

my solicit a dandelion I've got to find. But to make things worse,

they've apparently got no flowers because it's autumn so I'm looking

for a green stick in a very large green field! But, my app is telling

me that the word is originally from a lion tooth because of the shape

of the leaves, so hopefully that's going to be my clue as to finding

the dandelion in this field. Close, but I don't think it's the one.

Really hard to tell without the actual flower on it because that's

the most distinctive part that I remember. I think we're in luck

here. That's one. See the leaf? It's like teeth there. I think I've

found my dandelion. Right. Let's dig this up. There it is. My first

dandelion root. I'm looking for rose hips and I remember these from

school because they make a good itching powder. These little guys

here, definitely rose hips. Hawthorns. This is definitely them.

They're a lot smaller than rose hips. They grow on a completely

different type of tree. But this is them. And this is a young plant. It

will have a great big root down the bottom and that's the bit I need to

These are wood havens which smell a bit like cloves. They have a

delicate root so I can't use the shovel because I'll probably break

it. We got it. There we go. Right, I've got all my tasty ingredients.

Now, it's off to the kitchen. First thing's first. We wash the

rose hips and hawthorns. A massive pesle and mortar. Whack 'em in

there. Pestle and mortar. What are the squashed rose hips going to

become? We'll make a pulp out of them and make a jelly. Get your

hand in there. Rose hip jelly mice - first time for everything, eh.

We've got most of that out. Put this to one side and then we've got

the hawthorns. What is this one going to be? We add a few

ingredients from the store cupboard, apples and water. We've God our

dandelion roots and birdoch roots. They are going to make a dandelion

and birdoch drink. Chris stews the other ingredients for 30 minutes.

There's the dandelion roots. The wood haven roots, the thin ones,

they have that clove flavour. All that into the pan. Pop a lid on.

We'll go over to the stove. See how the other things are doing as well.

Well, it definitely looks more like food now and smells like appetising

food now. It's starting to smell fruity now isn't it? We've got a

lovely pulp in there, everything's gone great. A lovely Pinky colour

as well. We need to get all this into there and we are going to

press it through so the pulp will come through and the little seeds

and skin and everything will stay inside. We do that with both sets

of ber ris before adding honey, lemon juice and glycerine to set

the jelly mice. The rose hips are poured into the moulds. The

hawthorns are spread thinly. We just need to sieve the dandelion

and burdenoch cordial. -- bu urdoch. These are the roots I dug up myself.

That's actually really nice. Pop it in like a chew, a piece of

liquorice or something. Should I have a mouse bottom? Yes, and I'll

have a head. Chuck it all in Yes, just like a jelly sweet. Again,

really, really nice. Don't worry, guys, we'll make sure we save some

of this and get it to you in the studio.

Cheers, Rav, he has sent some back to the studio. It's quite a strong

smell and I think it's going to be an Quy ired taste. Thank you but

I'll put that over there for now. You can have it later, Aaron. If

you decide to go foraging and get berries, get expert advice before

you eat some of them because some of them make you ill. One thing

that's undeniably delicious... These are the old biscuits. Smell

that! They do smell great. Ten more minutes, 180 and you've got some

lovely biscuits to decorate. When they come out, we'll let them cool

with the icing pens. Fantastic. Supermarket. You can get those.

Barn yirbgs you can have the first biscuit because I feel guilty for

hitting you earlier. -- Barney. You don't always get what you want.

Next year, 2012 is the year of the superhero. All your favourites will

be in the cinemas. Because of that, we have two superhero Royaltys in

the studio today. John McCrae and Mark Miller. Welcome to the show.

You are the guys that are behind the comic strips we see. John, you

are an artist who's drawn all sorts of characters like? Batman,

superwoman, Wonderwoman, Batman, the Simpsons and Scooby Doo.

write the comics? Yes, Spider-Man, Hulk and things like that. Is it

not every boy's dream? It was my dream when I was five so I can't

believe at 41 I'm get to do it, it's great. Dreams that you have

when you are little can come true. What are you doing at the moment?

Wii Spider-Man. This is the guy that draws Spider-Man in the comics

you buy which is impressive. Did you start early? I had an Avengers

comic when I was four and that was it, twoing to be a comic artist and

nothing could dissuade me. When I was 18, I realised I'd have to

submit my artwork to the companies and after four years, I got my

first job. Through learning? Did you go to college or were you good

at drawing? I was reasonable and it was just through copying. I went to

art college for two months. that was it? Yes, I dropped out.

That's all right, look at what you are doing, it's amazing. I went to

the careers officer and said I would like to write comics and she

looked at me like I was mad. Luckily technology caught up with

us. It's great. How do you work together? Does the

story come first then the pictures? I'm given the blank piece of paper

which is cool for the readers and nice for the artist to draws. Then

all the hard work is done by John. I'll write a thousand spaceships

crashing in LA and then John has to draw it. Mark's the kind of guy

that would count them to make sure you've got that many. Yes. Barney

is wearing a cape, ready for action. He's poised waiting for the whistle

in the sky and he'll save anybody from distress. This is for a reason

because you have turned myself and Barney into superhero characters.

Look at this, very excited about this. These are the comic strips

you have put us in. Talk us through the story? Blue Peter asked us to

come up with a two-page story for the readers. I mean the viewers.

This is the idea that the badges will give you super powers, the

Blue Peter badge. All the Blue Peter badge people, the badges

start going and you get powers to help people. You draw that story

and bring it to life? Yes, draw nit pencil first to iron out all the

kinks and possible mistakes then go in in ink and do the inked up

version and there it is. Amazing. You then do another version which

is the finished print, I guess? Absolutely. And don't you look

good? Thank you very much, I do, yes, you've got the muscles just

right as well. You can see this coloured in on the website. You can

finish the story. Here is the first section. That's the first story

they've done for you, then you have got another bit which is blank and

you can decide how the story finishes.

Mark, John, thank you very much for coming in. It's amazing. How cool

is this show today, superheroes and biscuits! Doesn't get any better.

The biscuits are ready, time to take them out of the oven. They're

hot. Always wear an oven glove. Decorate these ones now, they've

been chilling, haven't they? Got to cool down - very important -

otherwise they'll melt. Pick an animal. I've gone for a green

caterpillar. We've been advertising your mini bake sale. I put up this

poster over here. If you want a poster leek that, head over to the

Blue Peter website, print it, fill in the details and that'll help

make sure you get lots of punters to raise money for Children In Need.

Beautiful. Welcome to the greatest fund-

raising show on earth... Children is need is all about one thing,

raising money to help thousands of children across the UK. This year

we are asking you to raise money for children like these living with

illnesses that affect their every day lives. For some children, that

means they need to have treatment in hospital to help them get better

again and one illness that involves spending a lot of time in hospital

is cancer. Cancer can affect adults and children. There are lots of

different types, over 200 of them. They can be difficult to understand.

So here are some of the basics. human body is made up of millions

of tiny cells that help to make things like blood, muscle or bone.

Sometimes, cells start dividing in an uncontrolled way and lots of

damaged cells are produced. This is called cancer. Some cancers affect

the cells in your blood. If the cells in your blood are damaged, it

means they can't fight infections, these cancers are called leukaemias

and lymphomas. Then there are tumours when cells stick together

and form a lump somewhere in the body.

I've come to a hospital in Cambridge. This is the oncology and

haematology children's ward where children who've been diagnosed with

cancer come for their treatment. Sapphire is 12. She was dying

kneesed with cancer just under a year ago. She's had several courses

of chemotherapy, a treatment designed to kill cancer cells or

stop them dividing. Can you explain what it's like having treatment?

just makes you sick, makes you lose your hair. Chemotherapy is designed

to make you get better but you have to get worse first don't you. Is it

something you get used to? don't really like getting sick and

just... Don't feel like doing it sometimes.

Like Sapphire, eight-year-old Charlie has been having treatment

for cancer too. Nine months ago, he was diagnosed with a large tumour

and it took a nine hour operation to remove it, followed by regular

visits to hospital. What is it like being in hospital? OK because

they've got the Xbox. Can you explain the sorts of things they

have to do to make you better? do this chemotherapy that goes in

there. That tries to clear it all up and, if not, they have to do an

operation. To make time on the ward better for children like Charlie

and Sapphire, Children In Need are funding a charity called young

Young Lives who run a project called Get Creative on the Ward.

The team travelled to this ward in their van and they arrive on the

ward with a whole load of media gear. They give children the chance

to learn how to make a ring tone, shoot a fillle, edit a photo or

even record a song -- shoot a film. Charlie's been working on a song

with the team and today he wants to That's enough from me. Time to hand

There it is. Projects like this are exactly what children like Charlie

need because when they're in hospital they get to do fun things

as well. Charlie's not the only one making the most of the session.

Sapphire is planning to shoot a magic trick starring me. They

brought a laptop to the bed, I do the music. They motivated me to get

out of bed so I could do more stuff. That's really cool, isn't it?

one of my most favourite things to do when I'm bored.

If you want to raise money for projects like Get Creative on the

Ward, the good news is you can. Get out there and run sales. The money

you raise will go towards helping children like Charlie and Sapphire.

Come on, let's do it - let's Bake A Difference!

By supporting this appeal you can make a mass you have difference to

the lives of children like Charlie and Sapphire. Everything you need

to know about running a successful sale can be found online. It's time

to see how many items you have pledged to bake for this year's

appeal. So... Drum roll... Yes. The total amount of pledges

pledged by you for the Bake A Difference sale is ops ooh. 32,385,

amazing! Very, very impressive. Since the start of the show, Aaron

from Junior Bake Off has been in the kitchen for us. Let's see how

he's getting on. Come on, you can have a biccie. Yes! I've decorated

them to the best of my ability and they're on sale now. Let's see the

colour of your money. Ah. Special deal now, buy one get one free,

�1.20. There you go. We've done all of this in half an hour, haven't

we? 30 minutes. You could have one in the living room for your family

and friends. Everything you need to know about holding a sale is online

and you can find the recipe as well. Is that nice? A bit moist.

animals were hurt either in this, remember, because they're not real.

That's good to know. The dog licked that one before? That's why it

tastes like beef and biscuit. parent or grown-up can help you pay

the money in that you raise: You can send a cheque or postal order

to our address, all the details are on the website.

Eat that one instead. He's not touched that one I don't think. We

are going to need this recipe because tomorrow Barney and I will

each be holding a bake sale. I'll head to Carlisle. I'll be heading

to blal. If you want to bring us a cake, buy a cake, come and see us -

- Blackpool. It's going to be raining in Blackpool, but it's

glorious sunshine in Carlisle. are going to raise lots of money

for Children In Need. You can help me if you want, bake some cakes and

bring them along. Helen's not the most competitive one in this, is

she. Blackpool! If you want to see who is crowned Queen of the bake

sale, choose next week. I won't be crowned the Queen. He's not a girl,

is he. The X Factor girl will be swaggering for us next week and if

you want to ask her anything, you are in luck. Head over to the Blue