Chocolate+Asphalt

Chocolate Asphalt - Learn about road construction and what a civil engineer does while you make chocolate 'asphalt' - a delicious layered dessert!


 * [|Chocolate Asphalt] - chocolate no-bake cookies. The process of making these cookies parallels the procedures used to produce asphalt pavements. Asphalt is a black sticky substance used in road construction to hold rocks together. When heated asphalt liquefies; as it cools, it hardens and becomes solid. A mixture of asphalt and rocks makes good roadway material after it hardens. The similarities between making cookies and preparing pavement include using a hot liquid added to a variety of dry ingredients and mixed together, which when cooled hardens and gains strength.


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 * [|Chocolate Asphalt] - IGEW 3/28/2105 - Don't include nuts in future as there are kids with allergies, and nuts require a lot of prep work. Be sure to buy enough chocolate chips - need a lot!


 * SWE Space Coast IGEW 2014 -- we use chocolate chips instead of the cocoa/milk, etc mix and also use Jimmies (cake decorations) instead of coconut (noted in the instructions). We generally have borrowed a large roaster to melt the chocolate.   It works a lot better than a crock pot.  There are stainless steel table spoons for mixing the chocolate in the storage tub.  We buy deli containers to mix in.  One leader developed a story scenario to introduce the subject.


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