Thursday 12 November 2015

#behealthybeactive -Today we made cupcakes. The experiment was to see whether colour affects the choices children make. We made two batches of Strawberry Banana cupcakes. The first batch used real strawberries and bananas for flavour and colour. The second batch used artificial strawberry flavouring and yellow colouring for the banana.

















We had opposing views, but winning by slight majority was the brightly coloured, artificially flavoured cupcake. Which was clearly inferior to the naturally flavoured and coloured cupcake ( as voted by myself, Mrs farrell and Georgia.) Funnily enough the children referred to the bright yellow coloured cupcake as the banana one, when in fact there was no trace of banana-either artifial or real. Which goes to prove that young children are clearly swayed by brightly coloured food.
We all had great fun baking!
Here are some viewpoints:
Samuel: I loved the Strawberry and Banana cupcakes best (natural)
They were so delicious. I really love bananas and strawberries and you could taste them both in the cupcakes.
Phillipa-Lilly: I really like the Banana sprinkle one (artificial)
I love sprinkles and the bright pink icing. It tasted the best!