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Foods 2 Cake

Each group of students chose a recipe for cake from the internet or cookbook. They also chose a frosting recipe and toppings for their cake. They created a description for their cake.

Rubric Code: YXC523C

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Subject: Vocational

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 9-12

Cake Name & Frosting:
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 4 pts	Basic 3 pts	Needs Improvement 2 pts
Recipe Efforts	Excellent Used a difficult recipe with easy skill level involved. Used difficult techniques in decorating.	Good Used a easy recipe with easy skill level involved. Used difficult techniques in decorating.	Basic Used a easy recipe with easier skills involved. Used easier techniques in decorating.	Needs Improvement Recipe used was not as difficult. Used easy and simple decorating techniques.
Cake Taste	Excellent Texture is more than appealing, uses unique flavors. Wants you wanting more.	Good Texture is appealing, uses unique flavors.	Basic Texture is somewhat appealing, uses common flavors.	Needs Improvement Texture is lacking - too dry or crumbly.
Frosting/Toppings Taste	Excellent Frosting/Toppings are more than appealing, uses complimentary flavors with the cake.	Good Frosting/Toppings are appealing, uses good flavors with the cake.	Basic Frosting/Toppings are appealing, uses fair flavors with the cake.	Needs Improvement Frosting/Toppings are not appealing and/or uses poor flavors with the cake.
Creativity	Excellent A extremely creative idea that pays attention to detail. Designed to attract audience attention and mass produce for others.	Good An original idea that pays attention to detail. Designed to attract audience attention.	Basic Cake looks ordinary. Seems to be a common theme or idea.	Needs Improvement Pays little or no attention to planning in detail. Cake idea needs more thought.
Appearance	Excellent Precise appearance. Even cake layers. Decorations are professional.	Good Neat appearance. Even cake layers. Decorations well balanced and shaped.	Basic Neat appearance. Even cake layers. Well balanced, but uneven shape of decorations.	Needs Improvement Neat appearance. Uneven cake layers. Uneven balance and shape of cake decorations.
Fondant	Excellent Fondant completely covers cakes. Fondant is smooth, no cracks or breaks.	Good Fondant is mostly smooth. A few bumps.	Basic	Needs Improvement Fondant is messy- doesn't cover cakes.
Cake drawing	Excellent Cake drawing is done well and colored. Is turned in with lab plans and poster.	Good	Basic	Needs Improvement Cake drawing is messy- not colored.
Jobs	Excellent Everyone is playing a key role in completing project.	Good	Basic	Needs Improvement 1 or 2 members are often times standing around not doing anything. Or same students are doing same jobs as they normally do.
Creativity	Excellent Cake is very creative- with creative flavors.	Good Cake had a creative concept- but wasn't executed well.	Basic	Needs Improvement Cake is very basic. Project is very easily completed.
Poster/Marketing	Excellent Poster is eye-catching. Looks like something that would actually be used to sell a cake.	Good	Basic	Needs Improvement Poster is sloppy- not colored. Not printed on time.
Timing	Excellent Group worked well together and completed project on time. Cakes were done in one class period.	Good	Basic	Needs Improvement 1 or more members of group had to stay after time to make sure cakes got out. Was clear that 1 or 2 members really knew what was happening. Others followed, but ultimately held others back.
Safety/Sanitation	Excellent Group followed classroom rules - and kitchen rules while completing recipe.	Good	Basic	Needs Improvement Students struggled to follow classroom rules. 1 or more students in group were caught eating off of utensils or putting fingers in batter/frosting. Thus making the lab unsanitary.

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