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Flourless Oiless Banana Oat Muffins

I guess this has to be the healthiest muffins I've ever made. I made them this morning for breakfast. Very quick, mixing + baking + cooling took about an hour. It's a win-win muffin of sorts; trying to clear my oats, bananas and yoghurt, and at the same time make a healthy snack to hopefully boost my milk production. I adapted the recipe from here , but I don't have a huge food processor (I have those small ones that comes with the blender, and the baby food steamer cum processor) hence I couldn't blend all in. I just processed the sugar and oats together and mixed with the other ingredients. 2 cups oats 1/4 cup sugar 3 medium ripe bananas 1 cup yoghurt 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 2 eggs It's amazing, no oil! They turned out moist, but because I didn't process the oats to be really fine, it kinda tasted like eating cooked oatmeal. But still good cos it has a bite and even the Husband said it's okay. I added chocolate covertures

Butter Cake with Cream Cheese Filling

Being at my mum's for the weekend, naturally I'll have loads of free time haha. No housework of my own to do. Since my sister and husband were coming, I decided to bake something to share the fats around. I had cream cheese and butter to use, and this was one of the recent crazes among baking bloggers, the butter chocolate cheese cake. But my sister didn't want a chocolate version hence, just butter cake with cream cheese filling or centre. I adapted the recipe from here , didn't add in milk because the eggs I used were already big and the batter is quite liquid. Butter Cream Cheese Cake 225g butter, softened 6 oz caster sugar 8 oz flour, sifted 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 4 eggs 250g cream cheese 4 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp flour 1 egg Cream the butter and sugar together. Add in egg one at a time and mix well. Add in the flour and baking powder and that's your cake batter. Cream the cream cheese with the sugar, then egg and flour. I didn't use an