Blackberry Bites I Can Cook

# I can cook!

# I can cook! #

Hello! Good to see you!

I was getting everything ready for today's recipe.

It's going to be such a good one. I can't wait!

I hope you'll join in with the cooking too.

-KNOCKING

-Aha! Come in!

Hello, Katy.

-Renee, hi. Lucy, hello.

-Hello, Katy.

Hello, Jashmi. Hey, Karim. Hello, Zainab.

Thank you for coming. Do you want to know what we're cooking?

ALL: Yes!

OK, I'll tell you.

Today's recipe is...

-blackberry bites.

-ALL: Mmm!

Before we get started, there's something we have to do.

What is it?

ALL: Wash our hands!

That's right.

Off you 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! #

Let's get started.

The first thing we need to do is some weighing.

We'll weigh some self-raising flour.

-What does self-raising flour do?

-Makes it rise.

-That's it!

Shall we all pretend to rise up, like this? Ready?

Oooooooh!

And that's what it does!

We need to weigh some self-raising flour for our blackberry bites.

These weights weigh the same amount as the flour we'll use.

We'll put these on here.

Then we'll put the flour on this side until the scales balance out

and this little red point here reaches the middle.

Can you see?

It's a bit like a see-saw. Have you been on one?

-ALL: Yeah.

-Can you pretend to be some scales?

You put the weights on one side and the flour on the other

and you keep going until the scales balance like...

that! Who wants to play a weighing game?

ALL: Me!

Zainab, you'll help me here. Everyone else,

say if we need more or less flour.

You can join in with this at home.

Here's our self-raising flour.

Put the flour onto the scales and everyone else

tell us if we need more or less.

ALL: More!

-Keep going! What do we need to do?

-ALL: More!

Keep going, Zainab - we need much more!

-Oh, no! What now?

-ALL: Less.

We need less.

Just a tiny bit less.

Oh, oh, oh, careful! Have a look. See.

I think we need a teeny tiny bit more.

We did it! Give yourselves a clap!

Yeah!

And thank you for helping with our weighing too.

Next, we need to get some lovely, soft, sticky butter,

and put it in with our flour.

Ooh, look at that.

I hope this flour and butter isn't ticklish

because we'll give it a really good tickle!

-Who likes tickling?

-Me!

Get your tickly fingers ready. Tickle, tickle, tickle!

As soon as we put the butter in, it just disappears.

And what happens? It goes crumbly.

-Look how crumbly mine is.

-Look how crumbly mine is.

Tap the bowl, like this, all the lumps come to the top

and you can tickle those, too.

That's it, then tickle it! You can tickle at home, too, like this.

Tickle, tickle, tickle!

Give it one last really good tickle.

Tickle, tickle, tickle!

Perfect!

Let's put in some caster sugar.

Caster sugar is different to sugar you use at home - it's finer.

The granules - the tiny bits - are smaller.

What does it look like?

-Snow.

-Lovely shiny snow.

-Do you think it'll make our blackberry bites taste sweet?

-Yeah!

Let's pour in our sugar.

Then give it a mix with your spoon.

I love mixing.

-Why do you like mixing so much?

-Because it's soft and smooth.

It's amazing how the sugar disappears as soon as you put it in.

What do we need next?

What is next? Well, let us see if you can guess what it could be.

Keep going, guys. It's looking really good.

Let me give you some clues.

The special ingredient is black.

Could it be...

..a pair of shoes?!

Eurgh! We don't want to eat a pair of shoes!

We'll try again.

The special ingredient is black

and you might see it if you go for a walk in the countryside.

Could it be...

..a black horse?!

We don't want to put a black horse in our cooking! That's not nice!

We'll try one more time.

The special ingredient is black,

you might see it if you go for a walk in the countryside

and...it's a type of berry.

So it must be...

Blackberries! We need blackberries in our blackberry bites!

Let's find out more about blackberries on my computer.

Let's go, guys.

I'll sit here.

-Everyone comfy?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Blackberries grow in hedgerows

and are ready to be picked in late summer and early autumn.

They look like lots of small berries packed tightly together.

When they start to grow, they're small and green

but soon they turn red

and it's when they go REALLY dark and look fat and juicy

that they're ripe and you can pick them.

Wow. That was amazing.

Let's get back to the cooking.

We'll use fresh blackberries, which we have here.

What do they feel like?

-Soft.

-Squashy.

-They're nobbly, too.

Let's put our blackberries into our mixture.

Then give them a quick stir - but only a couple of stirs -

we don't want to mix them up too much.

Now we'll add buttermilk.

That's the milk left over when butter is made.

You can use ordinary milk.

We're going to play the Some But Not All game.

We'll pour a little bit in at a time.

So pour a little bit in...and stop!

Then give that a mix until the mixture becomes sticky.

Pour a bit more in.

-I put all of mine in. Now mix it.

-You can join in the mixing at home.

You get your bowl and your spoon and you mix, mix, mix.

That's it!

It's gone all mushy and purple.

-Oh, look at that exploding blackberry!

-Look at mine.

Yours is entirely purple!

the whole bowl is purple! Lucy, it matches your top.

We're going to use our hands to squash it into a ball.

Can you pretend to squash like this?

Squash!

We're going to take out the dough and make it into a ball shape.

Then move your bowl to the side.

I need to add a bit more, but I think it's all finished.

When you've made it into a ball,

put it on the mat and sprinkle some flour

because we don't want our dough to stick to the mat.

Ready? We're going to make it snow in the I Can Cook kitchen! Ready?

Go!

Look at that!

Then use your hand to flatten it down.

Squash!

When your dough is flat, like this, we can cut out some shapes.

-Has everyone got a shape-cutter?

-Yeah.

-We've got lots of shapes.

I'm going to make a heart first. Then give it a wiggle.

Then put it on your tray.

Shall we swap our cutters so we can make different shapes?

Zainab, can we swap? Can I have the duck and you have the heart?

Thank you.

Then you can squeeze your dough together again in a ball

then flatten it again and make more shapes. I've got a duck.

Quack, quack, quack!

Fantastic! I'll put that on my tray.

That's it. You've done it.

You put the ingredients together for your blackberry bites by yourself!

It's time to put our blackberry bites in the oven, but remember -

ovens are hot, don't go near. Ask a grown-up to help you here. Come on.

Who's going first? Zainab. Ahh!

While we wait for our blackberry bites to cook,

there's one thing left to do. What is it?

ALL: Wash up!

We've got to wash everything up. Off we go, everyone!

# 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. #

Can you remember some of the things we've done? We've...

Weighed.

-Tickled.

-Flattened.

-Cut.

-And...

-Stirred.

We've been busy!

I've turned the oven off

and I'm about to take our blackberry bites out.

Our food is nearly ready to eat so let's lay the table and take a seat!

While I let the food cool, so it's safe to eat,

let's play a guessing game.

What can you see? Keep on looking.

Say when you know what we used in our cooking.

They have a hole in the middle,

you can get them in different shapes,

and you can use them to cut pastry or dough.

Do you know what they are?

That's right - they're cutters which we used to make the shapes

for our blackberry bites. Did you guess? Well done!

And here they are, ready to eat.

You've cooked your very own blackberry bites.

Shall we see what we've cooked?

-Yeah.

-OK.

One, two, three.

Look at those! They look delicious!

Wow, look at those!

One, two, three.

-Ooh!

-They're floury.

-They are!

We've done the cooking, now let's do some eating!

-What do they taste like?

-Yummy.

-And there's some red.

-Oh, my goodness! Look at Lucy's!

They blackberries completely exploded.

-Who would you cook these for?

-My mum.

-What part do you think your mum would like the best?

-Heart.

Is that because you love your mummy? Aww. My duck's head's come off!

Quack!

-So, what can you do?

-ALL: I can cook!

And remember that you can cook too!

If you'd like to try today's recipe, you can find it on our website:

What other fruit would you put in our blackberry bites?

-Banana.

-That's such a good one!

-Strawberry.

-Watermelon!

-What about peaches?

-Yeah!

-Watermelon?!

KATY LAUGHS

You've done SO well today.