First Baking Attempt for the Year

Saw a recipe for cupcakes from a blog which i read. A friend's friend's blog. The recipe looked quite simple, so i decided to give it a try tonight. The good thing about having the necessary ingredients is that I do not have to pick up loads of stuff whenever I feel like baking.

Its a recipe which used a lot more eggs and butter, giving the finished product a more cakey consistency. The dearie liked the cupcakes. The best of the lot so far, he says. He also tried twigging the receipe abit, by adding some coffee granules into one of the cupcakes. The finished product tasted quite mocca like, and surprising good as well.

I tried one piece and kept remembering the amount of sugar and butter which went into the mixture. Urrgghh.. I guess I'm one who rather cook den eat. At least till I've lost the extra weight I've piled on in the past year. Its a good start, I wanna do some cookies for the upcoming lunar new year. And maybe make some chocolate truffles as well. Let's see how it goes. Quite an accomplished day, this Sunday of mine.

Instant Banana Nut Muffins

Instant Banana Nut Muffins for breakfast tomorrow

Moi has no talent in baking.. so on a weekday nite, instant muffins makes for a simple bake. Add 2 eggs, milk and oil to the premix and mix.. whalah..can be done in 5 mins.. plus 15-20 mins of baking in the oven..although i still wanna come up with a totally home-made yummy banana nut version one day.. :)

Box of Premix

Milk, Oil, Eggs and Premix

Instant Muffins fresh from the oven

Times Passes

Time passed so so fast for this 3 days short long weekend. Its time for work tom. Arrghh.. why do time passes so fast when its not working time? hummp, guess i must admit.. moi is definitely one who works to live and not live to work.. oppsie..looking forward to the next weekend already..

The dearie made brunch for us today.. burger and scrambled eggs ( well, it was supposed to be omelette but that failed.. ;p). The burger was really yummy. Pics for the log. ;p

I've not have time to try baking this weekend, so its just the bakes from the week before. Low Fat Orange Yogurt Cake.. not too bad, although I would reduce the sugar the next round.. the cake was a tad too sweet for moi liking. hee hee, gotta polish up the baking skills.

Baking Blueberry Muffins

I came across some blueberries in the supermarket and decided to bake some jam-filled blueberry muffins using blueberry yogurt, fresh blueberries and blueberry jam.

Blueberry goodness

Wet and Dry Ingredients

I used the recipe from Happy Home Baking but tweaked it a bit. This reminded me of my first baked items which had been instant muffins from a box of Betty Crocker premix. I quite like the muffins, although the fresh blueberries which i added caused the muffins to be a tad soggy, which the dearie din like..

My muffins.. with the soggy bottom.. opps

Hee, well.. at least it was an attempt.. i will have to leave out the fresh blueberries the next round..and not overmix the mixture when combining the wet and dry ingredients.. ;p

Moi Brownie

I had a box of premix brownie which i bought some time back. Was home early one night, so i decided to bake some brownies. It took like 10-15 mins to add in the ingredients, and baking time of abt 30 mins. And ta da.. easy brownie..


Got the dearie to bring some to office for sharing with the guys and we kept the rest. Totally yums with ice cream.. ;p

The Weekend

Living in the eastside means shopping trips to new heartland malls. one of our favourite hangouts would be Parkway Parade.. pretty ulu when i was a westsider.. we managed to swing by PP for sushi as the dearie was craving for salmon. there's this small japanese supermarket cum eatery that serves cheap fresh sashimi called "fish mart sakuraya". i luv the concept where you have to choose your fish selection at the counter and the chef slices it and serves it up to ya. the selection for other items is rather limited, but the sashimi is okies cheapie..

On Sunday, the dearie cooked lunch for us. yummy yi mian with loads of clams, prawns, crabmeat, pork meat, egg and vegs. coupled with home brewed jui hua cha. tits a great homey meal.

(the dearie's masterpiece)

When the girlfres gave moi an oven last Christmas, i've been toying with the idea of doing some baking. why waste the perfectly good oven, right? especially since i found a Phoon Huat store near the homeland for baking supplies. I started with store bought premix. Now moving on to recipes i found on the web. Feeling quite pleased, although the dearie has to eat my baked items.. ;p

(moi apple muffins)

Quite a typical weekend.. :)