Wake Up and Smell the Cake

I miss my cheekycheeks. He had an emo moment yesterday. I had night class, and Husband would pick Junior up then me. So at my MIL's earlier, he was really hoping for me to come home soon. He heard the gate open, ran to the door thinking I was home, but was sad to see it's his auntie instead. So he walked to his atok, sat beside him and sobbed! No tears but with sobbing sound. So emo but so cute! I love that boy so so much. I can't wait to see him tonight. And it's a long weekend ahead, with trial play gym with Junior on Sunday! I hope he likes it :)

Junior came for abah's class (where I'm the student as well) last Saturday! He was the teacher's assistant, and thankfully an obedient one too for the long (in baby hours) four hours. Got up early to get things ready, and I was extra early so I made bread pudding for breakfast! My breakfast. Hahaha. This time round I used condensed milk only, no granulated sugar. Recipe: 6 or 7 slices of bread, torn to about 2 to 3 inch squares 388g tin of condensed milk 2 cups milk 3 eggs 1 box of raisins Sprinkle of sliced almonds Tear the bread and arrange them in the pan. I used an 8 by 8 inch square pan. Sprinkle raisins and almonds in the pan. Mix milk, condensed milk and eggs together in a bowl and pour into the baking pan. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius. Let the bread soak up the custard mixture while waiting for the oven to heat up. Bake for about 40 minutes. Yummy soft custardy bread pudding! Almost like my mum's. Almost. Tastes much nicer whe...

Yay the easel has arrived! Can collect it after work. I'm so excited to have it in Junior's room! It'll be crowded but ah well every kid needs an easel haha! I'm doing way too much online shopping these days. Tsk tsk.

Today I brought the wrong book for class nooooo. Maybe I'll make a copy for today's lessons later. Bleah. Last weekend's bake: banana choc chip muffins for breakfast. I used the recipe before , this time round I made it a little bit healthier. I reduced the egg from 2 to 1, switched from butter to oil, and I used a bit more bananas. I noticed that the muffins' top became smooth as cupcakes when I left the batter to rest before baking. Nice! I used: 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 1/2 tsp baking soda 6 medium ripe bananas, mashed 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup oil 1/2 cup low fat milk 1 egg 1/2 cup chocolate chips Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease muffin cups or line with muffin papers. I got 17 muffins.  Combine all dry ingredients and chocolate chips in a large bowl and mix well. Combine bananas, sugar, oil, milk and egg in a medium bowl. Mix wet ingredients into the dry ingredients bowl. Do not over-mix! Divide batter among prepared muffin cups, fill it til...

I am so happy! Although I woke up today with a red swollen eye but no matter! I finally found a shop that sells loads of childhood stuff! Biscuits in metal tins, old toys like pick up sticks, paper aeroplane thingy and so many others I know not the name but I just go, "eh this one!", and childhood snacks too! My ultimate fave, Hiro cake! And there's Tora and Dingdang too! Omg so so happy! It's like finding long lost treasure. This is the shop! Bad angle I know. But this caught my eye: Old School Toys & Games SOLD HERE!  Hiro Cake *screams* oh how I missed you! Sadly the cakes are so small and thin now. I didn't get one, don't ask me why haha, afraid of disappointment maybe. But next time I will. Ding Dang and Tora. All along I thought that Doraemon is on the box of Ding Dang hahaha. These snacks were sorta forbidden when we were younger. Snacks were a no-no. So if we did get them, it was really a happy occasion. See the boxes of biscuits beh...

Ooh it's been weeks since I last updated! Lots happened, but nothing really interesting baked recently. Am on the bus on the way to class, so might as well update. This morning I was shocked at the price increase at the canteen that it has made me determined to prepare my own breakfast. The epok2 became smaller AND increased in price by 30 cents! Outrageous I tell you! So I think now I shall stock up on bread, salad vege, tuna eggs and chicken to make me some yummy sandwiches. No more of canteen food. Or oatmeal on standby in office if I am pressed for time. Shall not be lazy anymore!