Wake Up and Smell the Cake

Hello hello! Dropping by for a short note on blueberry muffins I tried last Sunday. Although the recipe is To Die For Blueberry Muffins , I think the other blueberry muffin recipe has a more muffin-ish top, this was more cake-like. But I can't deny this is healthier because it uses milk instead of sour cream. Haha. No photos! Here what I used, note it defers a little from the original recipe: 1 2/3 cups flour (because I wanted to finish the whole packet) 3/4 cups + 3 tbsp sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1 cup blueberries Mix wet ingredients together in a small bowl, and the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until combined, transfer to muffin cups (I got 8) and bake for about 25 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. I'm finally finishing most of my baking ingredients, time to get new ones!! Plain flour's cleared, brown sugar, walnuts. Now I shall aim to clear my optima flour and co...

Had a superb weekend which means I'm sooo having the Monday blues. I love "just us" weekends. Husband had to attend a two day convention but skipped some sessions. Me and Junior was at home the whole time except Saturday afternoon where we went for early dinner and walked around Vivo. Vivo was quite an experience hahaha. I know it's family and children friendly but Junior wasn't keen on walking around on his own yet so we didn't really take note of such places until last Saturday. We have tried to let him walk around but he was choosy with the places. We first went into Toys R Us to get him warmed up, and warmed up he was! He couldn't wait to get out of the stroller! Once out, he happily roamed free, trying out this toy and that, wanted to make friends with GIRLS omg Junior you're too young, and when we carried him, he wanted to be put back down so he could walk. We literally had to scoop him up, hold him tight because he was squirming around ...

I went KL a week ago for a work conference invitation. I was just an observer, so it was relaxing for me hehe. Free trip! But it was a dreaded trip. Because for the first time ever, I was going to leave behind my precious breastfed (albeit partially) baby, and that is heartwrenching for both baby and mother. I don't know how heartwrenching it is for baby but definitely for mommy! I have become so used to the pattern of cuddling him while feeding him to sleep, then I get sleepy too from all those sleepy hormones released while breastfeeding, and bedtime for me is 10-ish. But being away from baby, I couldn't sleep! Like really tossing and turning on the bed. Both nights I slept after midnight, close to 1am. It was tiring. Pumping was okay, I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to pump, wasn't really sleepy after that. It has been ages since I can't fall asleep quickly. The conference was good, food's good. Food's almost always good in Malaysia haha! I ...

I have three green apples leftover (granny smith? Can't remember) and what better way than to turn them into apple cake! And it was the best fruit-to-cake decision thus far. There was a weird one I tried before, jackfruit cupcake and I have some longans at home and I'm thinking of some longan dish but since longans are more difficult to pit, so I left it as that. Anyway! Apple cake. I was in the kitchen and lazy to google some recipes, so I checked my two cake recipe books and settled for apple cake by Tish Boyle. The original recipe has more spices and maple cream cheese frosting which would be ultra yummy but I skipped that. I didn't follow the batter-making process either, I just added as I go. Apple Cake/Cupcake 150g butter, softened (recipe says 116g but I was lazy to accurately measure) 1 cup brown sugar, compressed 4 tbsp sugar (I added cos I thought the batter wasn't sweet) 6.4 oz flour (I used 6-ish, 7 not very sure)  1 tsp vanilla essence 1 ts...

I have lots of things to blog about! I hope I can write them all. Trip to KL and first time away from Junior Chocolate Okay scrap. Husband just asked me out for a short date and I ditched blogging. Haha! But just to remind myself, to blog about: trip to KL and being away from my two boys chocolate banana cake that would've been better without the banana, sadly. Haha. Is Neil Armstrong really Muslim? Cos it seems like a rumour only. And now he's gonna be "buried" in the sea? Oh wells. It's one of those stories that you heard when you were young and stuck to you for life. There's staff Hari Raya dinner today!! We can bring family members, and I'm so excited to hear many of my colleagues bringing their kids! Yay! I wanted to bring Junior too, I really do! But maybe we should just go as a couple so we can eat in peace, enjoy the night and then steal some babies. HAHA. Okay back to work!