Very Blue Mulberry-Raspberry Muffins + Recipe

We made these very blue mulberry-raspberry muffins today for our last day of Culinary Creations camp.  I modified the Ginger Mulberry Muffins recipe from A Spicy Perspective.  

Culinary Creations Books

These are the books I chose for Culinary Creations this year - we probably will not read all of them, but as of day three of camp, we have read fourteen of them!

Thunder Cake

Today in Culinary Creations camp we read Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco, then made the recipe in the back of the book.  For those of you who haven't read the book, thunder cake is a chocolate cake with tomato in it!  One of my favorite elementary school teachers, Mrs. Harbison read this story to us and we then made the cake, it's one of my favorite memories from elementary school!  I remember the cake tasted amazing, that it had a weird ingredient, and that we got to help make it.  When I was assigned to develop and teach a cooking camp at the Conservatory I decided to do a book theme for the camp, basically so I could read this book and then make thunder cake with the campers!

Stone Soup

We made Stone Soup in Culinary Creations camp today!  We also went over kitchen rules and safety, played 'two truths and a tale', read several food themed stories, made creamy parsley dip with veggies, went on a garden scavenger hunt,  decorated the covers of our recipe journals, and made a mess in the kitchen!  I am wiped out!  Tomorrow we are making Thundercake and salsa!