Cookie Science School Enrichment

If you ever wonder why one batch of cookies turned out one way and not the same again, or why you even add salt to cookies - this is the enrichment lesson for you. During this lesson (which requires access to an oven OR two sessions), youth take a classic chocolate chip cookie recipe, make some alterations, and try to uncover how those changes alter the overall make-up of the cookie.

Youth will be able to:

• Follow a recipe to create a cookie.
• Develop an alteration to the original recipe to test.
• Analyze the changes that happened between the variable and control cookies.
• Discuss the science behind cooking and the ingredients.

1 - one-hour session in a kitchen setting (access to an oven or multiple)

2 - 45 minute consecutive sessions in a traditional classroom setting

• 1st session will be discussing how to create a cookie/follow a recipe. This will be followed up by adapting a recipe to add variables.
• 2nd session will be evaluating cookies - baked outside of the classroom - and determining what those changes did to the cookies.

Tanya Crawford - Extension Educator: tanya.crawford@unl.edu

Amanda Hackenkamp - Extension Assistant: amanda.hackenkamp@unl.edu

Website: york.unl.edu
Location: 2345 North Nebraska Avenue, York, NE, USA
Phone: 402-362-5508