COOKIES TO MAKE HOMELESS CHILDREN HAPPY

New Year cookies have been baked to make the children, in need of protection, happy. The New Year cookies, prepared by the students of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Department of Culinary Arts and Management as part of their Pastry course, are on sale for the benefit of Turkish Foundation for Children in Need of Protection (KORUNCUK). All the funds raised by this sale will be used for the children within the foundation. Each of the Santa Claus, snowman, snowflake, gingerbread man, and reindeer shaped cookies were baked to support protecting the children.

Melike Konday, Chef at IUE Department of Culinary Arts and Management, said that they aimed to make the children, in need of protection, happy with this project, which they started as part of their Pastry course. “We are baking and decorating cookies together with our students. We are selling them at the main cafeteria. We baked approximately one thousand cookies. Our students also experienced how baking for large numbers was like. It requires many steps which are baking, decorating, packaging, and presenting. Our student chefs took care of all these steps on their own. We carried out this project with 13 students as part of the Pastry course. Voluntary students also got involved with the project,” stated Chef Konday.”

One Cookie, One Hope

Gizem Özyürek, one of the student chefs of IUE Department of Culinary Arts and Management, stated that they wanted to make the needy children happy while they were learning about pastry. Özyürek said, “We wanted to sell the cookies we baked and make the children happy as much as we could. Through this project, we learned how to bake cookies. We learned about sugar dough.” Ecem Özkaya, another student from Department of Culinary Arts and Management, implied that they felt honoured to serve such a good purpose. She said, “The end result of such an enjoyable project makes us very happy.”