On November 29, the "Vegista in Children's Apple Expo 2014" class, where students can experience cooking with apple sweets kits, was held at Hirosaki's meeting place indriya (Kamisawa, Hirosaki City).

This classroom is a collaboration between the "Apple Exposition" held in the "Apple Kingdom", which considers Hirosaki City, which has the highest apple production in Japan, as a fictional country, and the food education project "Vegista" that is being deployed nationwide. What you did.

At this event, we will prepare a sweets kit that puts together a set of ingredients and recipes in a box so that parents and children can enjoy cooking. Using this kit, 8 pairs of 12 children and their parents challenged to make apple tarts under the guidance of a professional pastry chef. Junpei Sato, a first-year elementary school student who participated, said, “I cooked for the first time, but it was easier and more fun than I expected.”

Koji Seki, the owner and chef of the sweets shop "Bonjour" (Joto Chuo) in the city, who devised the kit, said, "The process is more complicated than the conventional cooking kit, but I realized that parents and children could experience the fun of cooking. There is. " "If you eat cakes made by yourself, rather than handing out ready-made souvenirs, you should be able to remember Hirosaki's apples for a long time," he said.

The kit will also be unveiled at the apple apple sales event "Apple Planet 2" held in Osaka on December 6th and 7th, and local children will have a sales experience. Ayumi Kuramochi (11) wrote a letter to children in Osaka using "Oyasai Crayon vegetabo," which is made from vegetables produced in the prefecture. "I drew a picture of Hirosaki's apple with a crayon made of apples. I'm happy that children in Osaka can enjoy the fun of making tart," he said.