Baker's Delight - Last Day of Maths Week

Measurement is always used for cooking.  Today we baked chocolate afghans made with Weetbix.  We used fractions like one quarter, one half and a whole to measure the volume of flour, sugar and cocoa needed to make the afghans.  Colin's group didn't add enough flour to their butter and sugar, but it still tasted delicious.  Yummy, yummy!  The afghans were different sizes, but they were the same shape.  Most of the groups' mixtures turned out great, and so did the end product.  Below is the recipe:

CHOCOLATE AFGHANS
200 grams butter
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/4 cups of plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa
4-5 Weetbix - but we used three

Preheat oven to 180degrees celcius.  Cream butter and sugar and stir.  Hand crush the Weetbix one by one into the butter and sugar mixture.  Mix together.  Make balls and put on to a lined oven tray.  Press down with a fork if desired.  Cook for approximately 12 minutes.  Leave to cool on oven tray for approximately 5-10 minutes, then remove & place on cooling rack.

Icing:
100g butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 C icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
Tablespoon hot water
When biscuits have cooled, ice with chocolate icing.