1st Cupcake Baking Experience

So, 26th Sept was Kuak's birthday and I decided to do something special. Though I have a gift in mind that I wanted to give, but I am superstitious and decided not to give. Yeah call me superstitious I do not mind, it is better to prevent =)

I seriously suck when it comes to cooking and baking stuffs. But because it was his big day, I decided to bake cupcakes for him, which I have no experience in at all. Whatever haha. So planned everything with baby ong because she has oven and she also baked cupcakes for her bf.

So after our final paper on 25th, me and Shyuan followed baby ong's car to buy ingredients, "shun bian" go and have a look at her new house in Kepong. Kuak was a bit suspicious because I did not follow his car home... but I think he did not know what I was up to. Hehe

This is the shop where we bought everything from. Quite a small and packed shop.

Tadaaa~!!! All the ingredients that we needed. Cheese and chocolate were the MUST-HAVE ingredients because we are chocoholic and cheesaholic! Hehe.

Below are the steps taken to bake the cupcakes. Though the steps were simple to follow based on a cupcake baking recipe, the entire process was time consuming because baby ong's oven sot sot jor. Need more time to bake the cupcakes nicely.

#1: Measure the ingredients needed. (eg: flour, sugar, margarine etc)

Look at her. She has a new name - Butcher Shyuan

#2: Crack open the eggs according to the amount needed.

#3: Pour whatever needed into the mixture bowl. Use electric egg beater to beat the eggs and mix the mixture evenly.

#4: When the mixture is mixed evenly, it is ready to be poured into the paper cups.

#5: Place the cups with mixture onto an oven tray and arrange them nicely to maximise the space of tray.

Ready to be baked!

#6: Place the tray into the oven. Set the desired temperature and time for baking.

In the meantime.........

Shyuan and baby ong could not resist the temptation of almonds. Yucks. I am an almond hater.

We named the one on the left "songkok cupcake"

#7: Finally, the cupcakes are ready to be served!!!

As you can see, the cupcakes look slightly umm.... geli right? Like not delicious at all. I doubt they tasted good but when we tried, well I would say the double cheese cupcake was the best one. Very very nice! (but "jelat")

So in order to make them more presentable, there are more steps to be taken.

#8: Decorate your cupcakes with cream, nuts or other tiny yet colourful patterned-sugar pieces.

I decorated this with the choc mixture before putting them into oven

After baking the wordings looked like this

Lightly-fried almonds as decorations

Partially ready cupcakes

We spent whole afternoon baking 3 flavours of cupcakes - double cheese, chocolate and cappucino. Due to her oven problem, we could not finish baking the cakes in time and she had to rush to a dinner party, so we borrowed her oven and continued the baking at home.

Really tiring. Exhausted.

Because I just managed to sleep 1 hour plus the night before. But I think it was worth it since it was for him hehe.

That night before going off for his birthday celebration with his friends in Green Box at midnight, I arranged the cakes in this huge cake box and asked his friend to bring it there in another car.

Ready to be served!!!

When everyone was going to doze off in the singing room due to lack of sleep, suddenly.....

This came into the room. Nice or not?? *thumbs up for myself*

But the funny part was, he thought the cupcakes was bought by his friends.

WTH.

A bit angry but aiya, how in the world was he supposed to know that it was me, baby ong and shyuan who baked them as I do not bake at all? Right?

Anyway, in the end I think he was touched but did not really show it. You know guys... they tend not to show too much of this sort of expression. Haha but really happy because I know the cakes were not too nice but he finished them =)

Could not really see my eyes anymore.

His smile proved that I was successful!

His gang of friends

So, what should I give him next as gift?

Definitely not cakes anymore. Not too good at it.

Must try something that I have not done before hehe.

Anyway, happy birthda again o~!!!

A Day That Reminds Me I Am Getting Older

Yes! I am back in Penang! FINALLY!

Ever since CNY holidays, in these 7 months, I just came back for 2 days as I spent most of my previous sem break in Kampar. Really tooooo short. This time I shall make sure I stay longer before going back to continue on with my FYP =)

Just reached this morning and I thought this whole week I shall just stay at home and be a good girl since I rarely come back. But as I woke up at noon, juniors from Kampar called and said they were at Penang. So, I ended up spending my afternoon with them together with Shyuan.

They lost their way when they wanted to go Butterfly Farm and ended up at Botanical Gardens. When we reached there to find them, we just realized that Botanical Gardens is under construction. So outdated of us =_=

Anyway we took them to Toy Museum before heading to Gurney Plaza. Well as a Penangite, I haven't been there before. And I think most Penangites will not go there as well because feedbacks from most of the people who went there were "nothing to see eh". So, this was my 1st visit since they were interested :p

Well pictures will definitely give a better picture of Toy Museum. You can think twice again whether you wanna visit again or not. I can just say that, 1 time is enough. But when you are inside, I can assure you that you will think back your childhood days and realized how old you have grown haha.

Like this one, I thought back those days when I used to play Tomb Raider computer game. It was one of my favourite game. Argh those days....

Some of my all time favourite cartoon shows

When we were kids, we used to watch the same cartoon over and over again no matter how many episodes it had, isn't it? How would we do that, I wonder? And until I was in high school, I still watch Tom and Jerry every night before going tuition. Haha childish of me.

Until now, I still love to watch fairy tales and cartoon movies. Maybe because they remind me of my childhood days. I am glad that I had a pleasant childhood. 还好我有童年 =)

Favourite comics when I was young

Do you know them?

I am a crazy fan of Harry Potter

Not a very Avatar fan, though I love the movie

For Malaysians like us who are MyCard holders, the entrance fee for an adult is RM10. Well, may be a bit expensive but the miniatures inside there are seriously a huge investment. So... the price is like that lo.

After seeing soooo many different toys, we headed to GP and yum cha at McD because shyuan and I wanted to eat ice-cream. Temptations can really kill my diet plan lol.

As we ate and chatted, suddenly.....

I heard "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you................................" and I was presented with a cute piece of cake with a lighted candle on it.

I was surprised. Stunned. Overjoyed. Touched.

Never cross my mind that this is going to happen because my birthday is like 2 weeks later. This is sooo early! Thanks people =) Really sweet of you guys! ♥♥

This is my 1st 22nd birthday celebration. And my god! This reminds me that I am going to turn 22 in 2 weeks time! So sad, no more sweet 18 or at least sweet 21 =( Getting older day by day d....

Thank you, everyone!

Sherril's Project 365: #38

Little kids love fairy tales because the stories always have happy ending. But do our real lives have happy endings?

We can never predict the future, yet we can always make our life contented and happy. Everything is in our hands. I believe in myself, but I do believe in fate and luck as well. But to me, if we never work hard, fate will never help us and luck will not be around us.

Should work harder in the remaining semester. After that.... I will see how my life plan goes on. Accordingly or otherwise.

-sherril=xuele-

爱莫能助

真是爱莫能助。不懂该怎么办才好。

困了我好几天，但是我还是没能解决。连问题的根源都找不到。

希望考完试这些问题可以自动消失。还有三天而已。。。。加油！

-雪乐-