Year 6 bake carrot cookies

Move over Mary Berry and Jamie Oliver! This week Year 6 have been baking. As part of our topic on World War II, we have been learning about rationing. With sugar and eggs in short supply, carrots were often used to sweeten cakes and biscuits (cookies). We followed a 1940's recipe to make carrot cookies.

Carrots were the home front's secret weapon. The Ministry of Food propaganda machine tried to convince children that carrots on sticks were just as tasty as ice-creams and that eating lots of carrots helped you 'see in the dark' during blackouts. This might not be completely true, but our carrot cookies were fun to make and surprisingly tasty.