On February 11, we had the "Valentine’s Day Sweets" cooking class, organized as a ICT event. Our teacher Mrs. Ellie Homma is a home cooking teacher who worked in a deli/bakery for three years, and made bread, muffins, and cookies as well as soups, stews and casseroles. Most of her recipes were simple and child friendly, and she loves to enjoy cooking with her two sons, age 5 and 9, in her kitchen.

Divided into two groups, we made blueberry muffins and cube chocolate truffles following her recipes after learned fundamental skills of sweets cooking. We really liked her way, which just measured ingredients, combined together and mixed them up. How easy it was! All muffins turned to beautiful colors brown and yellow after baked for 20 minutes! Crumb toppings were so delicious. Her homemade cube truffles were also incredible!

We almost took 3.5 hours and we were so involved in her cooking, and

thoroughly enjoyed talking together with the excellent sweets. Both the sweats and our ICT members were wonderful! We hope to do it again soon, and we really thank you to our teacher Ellie and her son Yuta-kun for making our holiday very special!