Pimp That Snack

Giant Buttons

by Mr Webb's 10R2 Maths Class 9 photos Rated 86% 538 votes when voting closed

What gave us the idea?

Throughout the year we had been looking on the PimpThatSnack Website looking at all the crazy ideas people had come up with. Then, right at the end of the year, Mr Webb came up with the idea that we make our own Pimped Snack, and after much deliberation we decided to make GIANT Cadbury’s Buttons.
What we did!

Firstly, Mr Webb gave the task of making everyone purchase 500g of chocolate (preferably Cadbury’s). While we did this, he booked a Food Technology room for us all to make the GIANT BUTTONS, and pulled Mrs Lees’ arm to assist us in making this crazy project.

After all the preparations had been made, on the 17th July 2006, Mr Webb’s class met in the technology room and began to discuss how we could make the GIANT BUTTONS.

School table piled with Cadbury Dairy Milk bars, pupils in blue aprons gathered round

This is how we did it…

1. First, we broke up all the chocolate we had bought (500g) and placed the individual squares into a glass mixing bowl (1 bowl per button). Meanwhile a few more of us set out to make the packaging for the GIANT BUTTONS.

Three pupils giving thumbs up beside a pan of melting chocolate on the hob

Pupils cutting out the oversized paper Dairy Milk Buttons wrapper on a classroom table

2. We then filled a saucepan with water and heated it gently on the stove, placed the chocolate filled bowls inside, and resisted the temptation to stir (stirring chocolate makes it cloudy).
NOTE: Be sure not to let water come into contact with the chocolate

3. We then dished out the plates to all button makers, and placed cling-film over the top of them, making sure we didn’t make wrinkles in the process.

A pupil at a classroom table lining a white plate with cling film

4. After about 15-20 minutes of heating the chocolate, it melted smoothly into a creamy liquid.

5. Then, we carefully poured the chocolate onto the plates and let them level out on their own.

Melted chocolate spread into a cling-film-lined plate to set as one giant button

Two pupils smiling beside a saucepan and bowl of melted chocolate in the school kitchen

6. After they had cooled we placed them into the fridge to set, waiting for the day we could eat them.

7. After almost 24hours to set in the fridge, we popped them out of the plates and found perfectly formed chocolate buttons.

8. We placed them all in the great big packet and spread some out on the desk to take a picture

The class behind a dozen set giant buttons, the huge paper packet and a real bag

Giant buttons and the huge paper packet beside a real bag of Cadbury Buttons spilling out

9. Then the moment had arrived, we all picked one of the buttons and began to munch away!

Pupils each raising a saucer-sized chocolate button to bite into it
My maths classes were never this cool

ESTIMATED COST: £30.80

GIANT BUTTONS by …

Mr Webb, Mrs Lees, Lucy Johnson, Alistair Feerick, Rick Walsh, Craig Cawley, Nick Salisbury, Steven Nield, Milly Saide, Sarah Longhurst, Charlotte Stephens, Chris Hall, David Thorpe, Lauren Done, Naomi Tewson, Rhys Bartley, Daniel Booth, Tim Stansfield, David O’Donnell, Paul Cunliffe, Kate Reed, Luke Ireson, Nick Williams, Adele Perry, Matthew Robinson, Cheryl Flint, Hayley Bromley and Alex Jones.

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