Katy's Amazing Carrot and Squash Cookies and Maze I Can Cook

# I can cook!

# I can cook! #

Hello! There you are! Are you ready to come on an adventure with me?

You are? Fantastic!

Now, Horace, who are we going to see today?

-Oh!

-My name is Mackay!

-Hello, Mackay.

Me and my friends can't wait to see you.

We're going to go and see my friend Mackay. I can't wait!

-Are you ready to go, Horace?

-HORACE HONKS

Are you ready to go? Brilliant! Jump in, then.

# Load up Horace our trusty van

# With tasty things and pots and pans

# Off on a journey and I'm coming to you

# It's going to be busy and there's lots to do

# Get ready to help Join in and have fun

-# Cooking healthy snacks for everyone.

-#

HORACE HONKS

CHILDREN LAUGH AND SCREAM

-Hi, everyone.

-Great to see you! Mackay, are these of your friends?

-And what's your name?

-Frankie.

-Connor.

-And Tyler.

So, Mackay, what are we going to do today?

-Go round a maze.

-We're going to a maze?!

I don't think I've ever been to a maze before.

-I've been in a maze!

-Have you? You know, going to a maze

sounds like something we'll need lots and lots of energy for.

I wonder if I've got some ingredients in Horace

that we could use to make a healthy snack to take with us.

-Shall I do it?

-Yeah!

-I'll go and have a look.

-Hey, look at the ingredients I've found!

-Wow!

-Shall we have a look in my cookbook find a recipe to make?

-Yeah!

All right, let's go.

What's in my cookbook?

Let's have a look. What tasty treat are we going to cook?

(ALL GASP)

Look at those!

They look yummy, don't they?

They're Katy's amazing carrot and squash cookies.

They look yummy, don't they?

But before we start cooking, what have we got to do first?

-ALL: Wash our hands!

-We've got to wash our hands.

Come on, let's go.

# Roll up your sleeves

# Give your hands a wash with slippy-dippy soap

# Splish, splash, splosh

# Have you done your hands? Washed and dried

# Sleeves rolled up Apron tied

# What can you do? I can cook! #

The first ingredient we need is a carrot.

And can you guess what animal this is?

ALL: A rabbit!

-That's it, it's a rabbit. And rabbits love...

-ALL: Carrots!

-Has everyone got a carrot?

-ALL: Yes!

We've got to split this carrot in half. I'll show you how to do it.

You hold it out on front of you like a pair of bicycle handlebars

and then you split it in half. After three. Really use all your strength.

You can do it with us if you want. Ready. One. Two. Three.

-And split.

-Yargh!

The next thing we're going to do is work in pairs to grate the carrot.

You need to decide who'll be the pusher and who'll be the turner.

-I want to be the pusher.

-I want to be...

-OK, the pusher

is going to put their piece of carrot in the top of the grater.

And then, they're going to push down on the top

and the other person is going to do the grating.

And let's get grating!

I think you've got to really, really push down hard, Connor.

Push down hard, Frankie. Use all your strength.

Oh! Who can see the carrot coming out?

-Me!

-Me!

And then use your fork to scrape out any carrot that's still

stuck inside the grater.

Once you've done all that grating,

just put your carrot to one side because we're going to use it later.

Next ingredients are flour and butter.

We've got little blocks of butter here.

We're going to get our fingers a bit messy

and scoop the butter out of the bowl, into the flour.

All sticky!

Lovely. Just pop your bowl over to the other side.

My hands are very sticky.

I like getting my fingers sticky.

Next, we're going to add a teeny weeny bit of golden caster sugar.

Take your teaspoon and you're going to use your finger to tap,

tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.

And then just put it into your big bowl. Ready for the next bit?

We need our tickling fingers,

so everyone show me your tickling fingers.

Tickle, tickle, tickle.

And dive your fingers in, and tickle!

You've got to tickle the flour, the butter

and the sugar until you've got a crumbly mixture.

-I'm mixing everything up.

-I think he's doing a tickle dance.

Sounds like he's made up a tickle song. How does it go, Connor?

# Doo-doo, doo-doo-doo. #

# Doo-doo, doo-doo-doo. #

Mackay, what does the mixture feel like on your fingers?

-It feels like snow, like snowballs.

-Oh, yeah.

OK, now we need to add a bit of colour.

What do you think we could use that has lots of lovely colour in it?

-Carrot!

-That's right.

And we're also going to add another orange ingredient, butternut squash.

Here is a butternut squash.

Do you think butternut squash grows above the ground

-or below the ground?

-Below the ground!

Actually, it grows above the ground. And it's a vegetable.

Squash is a really funny name for a vegetable.

Who can pretend to squash up like this?

Oooh!

Squash!

Can you squash as well? I'll show you how.

Put your arms out really wide and...

Squash!

Ah, great squashing! Let's add our squash to our recipe.

Pick up your bowl and pop that over there. We're going to add

the carrot too.

-Lots of orange.

-Lots of orange.

This is the part of the recipe where we get to get really messy!

-Who wants to get messy?

-ALL: Yeah!

-OK, in you go!

-Squash it up, everyone.

-I'm getting sticky!

-Woo-hoo!

It's really squelchy! Oh, dear! Look what's happened to my hands.

I've got monster hands. Look. Rargh!

-Rargh!

-OK, now let's give our hands a little bit of a wipe.

The next thing we're going to do is

give our cookies a really great shape.

We're going to make them into a carrot shape.

But before we shape them, just put your bowl to the side and get

your flour dredger because we need to sprinkle flour all over our mats.

OK, now, everybody, take your dough out of the bowl.

And roll it around in your flour, so you get rid of all the stickiness.

-Roly poly, roly poly.

-Roly poly.

And then we're going to split the mixture into three ball shapes.

Go one, two, three.

And then we've got to split these three balls in half,

so there we go - one, two.

One, two.

One, two.

Take each ball and we're going to roll it in our hands like this.

-What's it starting to look like?

-A carrot!

Next thing we need to do is put our six carrots onto our tray.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Put your fingers out in front of you like this.

Two fingers on each hand. Are you doing it too? That's it.

And then slowly put them behind your head, stick your teeth out

and go tsh, tsh, tsh.

-And what do you look like?

-ALL: A rabbit!

-A rabbit, yes.

We're going to use our rabbit ear fingers to squash our dough

and make it into carrot shapes, like this.

Squash, squash, squash.

And finally, we're going to add a herb called rosemary.

What we're going to do with the rosemary is pop it onto

the top, like the leaves at the top of a carrot. There we go.

And that's it, everybody. You've done it.

You have made amazing carrot and squash cookies all by yourself.

-Well done!

-Yay!

-Now, we've got to put them in the oven to cook.

But remember, the oven is hot, so don't go near.

You need to ask a grown-up to help you here.

Now, these won't take very long to cook at all.

-HORACE HONKS

-Thanks for reminding me, Horace.

We need to make everywhere tidy and clean.

Scrub those pots till they sparkle and gleam.

# Now we've cooked, let's wash up

# Stack the plates and the bowls on top

# Dishes and spoons Splish splash splosh

# Having fun while we tidy and wash

# Dishes and spoons Splish splash splosh

# Having fun while we tidy and wash. #

There we go. All nice and clean.

Now, our food is still cooking in the oven,

-so who wants to go and play in the maze?

-ALL: Me!

Come on then. Let's go that way.

-Right, let's try and find our way to the middle of the maze.

-ALL: Yeah!

And you can come too. We can have our cookies when we get there.

This way, this way! Go this way! Come on!

Come on, you two!

Let's go that way!

This way!

We did it! Look, everyone! It's the end of the maze!

Oh, and here's the mums and dads, hiding from us!

All of that running round that maze has made me so hungry.

-Who's ready for a snack?

-ALL: Yay! HORACE HONKS

Listen, I think that's Horace telling us that the food's ready.

Set out the picnic things and I'll run back to Horace

to collect the food.

-ALL: Yay!

-I hope I don't get lost. Wish me luck! See you in a bit.

-HORACE HONKS

-Hello, Horace.

-HORACE HONKS

-You're right.

The amazing carrot and squash cookies do smell fantastic.

And they look great too.

I cannot wait to try one of these, but I'd better get them

to my friends because I can hear their tummies rumbling!

HORACE HONKS

That was a challenge, trying to get through that maze again.

-But I made it and I've got our food. Who's hungry?

-ALL: Me!

Connor, I think this is yours. And who was blue? You. You're blue.

Right, let's tuck in.

Mmm. They're yummy.

-Who can see the squash inside the cookie?

-Me.

-What colour is it?

-Orange.

I'm saving some for my baby brother.

-How does that taste?

-Yummy.

-Is it yummy?

-I'm taking the whole box home.

-Would you like to make some more at home?

-Yeah.

Mmm, these cookies have given me loads more energy.

-Who wants to go and play some more in the maze?

-ALL: Me!

Come on, let's go. And you can come too.

# We've had a break and a bite to eat

# And we're stronger than we were before

# Something healthy in our tummies to help us play some more

# Healthy food Hip hip hurray

# Energy Hip hip hurray

# To keep us going Hip hip hurray

# And help us play, help us play Hip hip hip hurray! #

Let's get our explorer goggles on. Go like this.

Find the way out. Wait, wait. Shall we go that way or this way?

-This way.

-Which way? That way? Let's go this way.

We are completely lost in this maze. It's great fun!

I'm glad I had one of those cookies to give me some energy.

If you'd like to make our quick and easy recipe,

you can find on our website. Just go to:

I hope I can find my way out! Wish me luck.

-Yay! We did it! Fantastic, everyone! Hey, was that fun?

-ALL: Yeah!

-And what can you do?

-ALL: I can cook!