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French Revolution Unit Study – Pain Au Chocolat Easy Recipe

February 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment
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I wanted to add in another easy hands-on project for our study about the French Revolution besides the Storming the Bastille board game I created.

Pain Au Chocolat from France

Because the French Revolution is a pretty deep topic, I wanted to focus some on the culture and aspects of the country.

When I think of France and it’s culture, I think of, besides wonderful aged wine, (which Tiny was up for a taste test on) the best bread and chocolate.

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So I came up with an easy hands-on idea for studying about France and that is to make chocolate sandwiches or pain au chocolat.  Tiny is for sure getting his home economics in on this semester.

I probably wouldn’t make a great ambassador for France because I didn’t bake my bread all from scratch with wholesome ingredients.  I used store bought wheat rolls because I had them in the house already for meatball subs that night.

After reading some about what kids in France snacked on, the idea of a chocolate sandwich for breakfast sounded too good to be true for Tiny that morning (or so he thought anyway).  He was pretty eager to get started with “school”.

Recipe Pain Au Chocolat from France

After gathering up the bread and mostly the chocolate and a bit of butter and milk, Tiny was ready.

French Revolution Unit Study – Pain Au Chocolat Easy Recipe

Tiny cut the bread on a diagonal so we would have 4 halves to share.

French Revolution Unit Study – Pain Au Chocolat Easy Recipe

He buttered the bread so we could toast it in the oven after we put the chocolate spread on it.

French Revolution Unit Study – Pain Au Chocolat Easy Recipe

Then he added a tad of butter to the mixture. 

And actually we used half and half in our mixture because it was a bit creamier. But you can use milk too. 

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Pain Au Chocolat Easy Recipe

Microwave the mixture until heated through  and melted.

No, I didn’t pull out the bowl on top of the boiling water pot for this.  Microwave is fine for us.

French Revolution Unit Study – Pain Au Chocolat Easy Recipe

Then spread the chocolate and we baked the sandwiches in the oven on 350 degrees until toasted.

French Revolution Unit Study – Pain Au Chocolat Easy Recipe

Tiny wasn’t sold when he tasted it.  I think he worked himself up to thinking about the word sandwich and couldn’t think of anything else when he bit into it.

Unlike his mom, he is not a big bread eater either, but I was hoping this would make him like it a bit better.

Me? It was actually pretty good for a sweet roll for breakfast. 

If we had used some other bread too besides wheat, it would have been even better. 

I was pleasantly surprised that with the butter and toasting it, we almost felt a bit like we were eating at the outside cafes in France. 

Flaky, crunchy and sweet, it was pretty good.  Some home made bread or wafers could make this even better. 

At least with wheat rolls, I felt like it was a bit healthy. {it sounds good anyway}

I found a couple recipes too that you can fuss over a bit more and that could be used when studying about France, it’s food and culture.

Here is a grilled chocolate sandwich with a bit of confectioners’ sugar dust.

grilled chocolate sandwich

{Source: Martha Stewart}

And then this one is from Dying For Chocolate blog. 

I love the crusty vanilla pound cake and the whip cream. Ewww la, la.

grilled chocolate sandwich 2

{Source: Dying for Chocolate}

However you serve it up, this definitely will send you and your kids’ blood sugar sky high in the morning, but a little bit doesn’t hurt.

French Revolution Lapbook Minibooks

Next, look at the minibooks which come in this free download.

  • Beethoven and the Revolution
  • The Guillotine – The French Terror
  • Timeline of Events Leading up the French Revolution
  • 3 Estates – French Society
  • Causes of the French Revolution layered book
  • Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI
  • What is the Directory, What is the Reign of Terror and What is the Sans Culottes

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