Tamworth pupils cook up a storm in bake off

Move aside Prue and Liam, because rising young stars at a Tamworth primary school have been creating quite a stir in a Junior Bake Off style competition.

Children in years one and two at Two Gates Primary School enjoyed a live cook-a-long session at the beginning of this month with Helen from Phunky Foods, an early years & primary school programme of healthy lifestyle curriculum activities, lesson plans & resources.

As part of the competition, the children were challenged to bake yeastless hot cross scones.

The first challenge was to weigh out the ingredients and carefully read the scales, all before following Helen 's instructions on Zoom to create their final bakes.

The heat was on as the young cooks went bowl to bowl for the title of 'Star Bakers ', with year one pupil, Ellie, taking inspiration from celebrity TV cooks and saying “I feel like I 'm on Junior Bake Off! ”

In the end, Year 2 were victorious and just managed to beat their competition.

Teacher Michelle Dodds said: “They got very messy from rubbing in the butter and mixing the dough!

Everybody thoroughly enjoyed the cook-a-long and took their bakes home to enjoy! Thank you to Helen at Phunky Food for our session."