It is time for the
Holiday Bake Sale!
You signed up to bake 5 dozen gingerbread cookies. The only problem is that your family gingerbread recipe won’t make enough for the bake sale.
Take a look at the recipe to figure out how you are going to make 5 dozen cookies.
10 Tablespoons (2/3 cup) unsalted butter
¾ cup packed light or dark brown sugar
⅔ cup unsulphured molasses
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon ground ginger
11 teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground allspice
½ teaspoon ground cloves
Gingerbread Cookies
12 people
(2 cookies each)
10 min
4 hrs
Duplicating the Recipe!!
Your family recipe serves 12 people and each person gets 2 cookies. How many cookies does the recipe make? (you can go back and reference the recipe on slide 3 if you would like) | |
You need to make 5 dozen cookies. A dozen cookies is 12 cookies. How many cookies do you need to make? | |
Duplicating the Recipe!!
The original recipe makes 24 cookies, but you need 60 cookies. Simplify this fraction to figure out how many times you need to duplicate the recipe. Use as many of the fractions as you need
60
24
How much butter?
The original recipe calls for: 10 Tablespoons (⅔ cup) unsalted butter
Since you are making 2 ½ (or 5/2) times the recipe, how much butter will you need?
2
3
5
2
How much brown sugar?
The original recipe calls for: 3/4 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
Since you are making 2 ½ (or 5/2) times the recipe, how much butter will you need?
5
2
How much molasses?
The original recipe calls for: 2/3 cup unsulphured molasses
Since you are making 2 ½ (or 5/2) times the recipe, how much molasses will you need?
(Do your work on a scratch sheet of paper. Enter your answer as a decimal.)
How much cinnamon?
The original recipe calls for: 11 teaspoon cinnamon
Since you are making 2 ½ (or 5/2) times the recipe, how much cinnamon will you need?
(Do your work on a scratch sheet of paper.)
How much cinnamon?
You will need 27 ½ teaspoons of cinnamon!!! That will take a LONG time to measure in teaspoons. Every tablespoon equals 3 teaspoons. How many tablespoons could you measure? Color them in.
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
1 tablespoon
½ teaspoon
How much cinnamon?
How many tablespoons will you need of cinnamon? (Leave the ½ teaspoon off of your total number.)
How much???
Take the remaining ingredients and decide how much you would need to make 2 ½ what the original recipe called for. | |
1/2 teaspoon - salt, ground allspice, ground cloves | |
1 large egg | |
1 Tablespoon - ground ginger | |
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, baking soda | |
GREAT WORK!!
You completed your task. Now onto the fun!
Smells like victory!
Now that you have completed your recipe, decorate your cookies!
You can decide which cookies to decorate. The next 3 slides have different options.
The holiday spirit is Among Us!!
Decorate your gingerbread cookies!
Decorate your Star Wars Gingerbread cookies!