Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Banana Muffins


Im sorry for the lack of entries recently.. Been quite busy with a few orders here and there.. and work.. and jamming with my band members..

Anway, I tried making banana muffins last weekend.. I don't really enjoy doing muffins cos I always thought that muffins taste dense and filling and boring.. But this muffin that I made really made me change my mind.. Haha.. It's soft, delicious and awesome especially with chocolate chips.. And I don't really like banana stuffs... 

My sis came across a website about muffins.. Well.. it states that you should not overmix the batter.. cos if you do, you will have tunnels and your muffins will be dry.. For more theory on muffins, you may visit this website.. http://www.joyofbaking.com/muffins/muffinrecipes.html

Banana Muffins II (taken from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Banana-Muffins-II/Detail.aspx)
Makes 12 (my notes in red)

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 large bananas, mashed
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup butter, melted   
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat muffin pans with non-stick spray, or use paper liners. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; set aside.

2. Combine bananas, sugar, egg, vanilla and melted butter in a large bowl. Fold in flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Scoop into muffin pans.

3. Bake in preheated oven. Bake mini muffins for 10 to 15 minutes, and large muffins for 25 to 30 minutes. Muffins will spring back when lightly tapped.
 
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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Orders and Deserts for Potluck... Weee~


I've had several orders from my sister's colleagues and friends lately.. Orders for cupcakes for students.. one for  gubahan (wedding present?? I'm not sure how to translate it in English).. and I had to make desert for my Hari Raya Potluck at work...

Above all that... I know this off subject.. I don't usually write about myself but I just wanna say that I GOT MY DRIVING LICENSE!!! hahahaha.. All the money and effort I put into.. for that one piece of card.. Im really proud and really really happy of myself.. And I passed it on my first attempt.. hehehe.. Cool rite!!

Ok.. back to my baking thingy.. Been quite tired with all the late nights but Im used to it I guess.. I wish I can quit my job and do this full time.. LOL..


This is an order for 80 cupcakes I made the frosting with 2 colours.. Just like those swirl ice-cream that Mc Donalds used to sell.. I used to love that ice cream.. Where it's half chocolate and half vanilla.. I tried to make the colours friendly for the boys too... Hence, I did one with purple and green and it remind me of Poison Ivy in Batman.. Hmm.. I figured it wasn't a good colour combi.. Oh well.. But it does reminds me of Halloween.. :) Oh yeah, the base of the cupcakes were Old Fashion Chocolate cupcakes cos it's just the best chocolate cupcake among all the chocolcate cupcakes recipe that I've tried..


I finally made my COMPLETE NEAPOLITAN cupcakes.. hehehe.. I put some strawberry flavouring into the frosting and it tasted WONDERFUL!!.. I didn't put so much flavouring cos I didn't want it to overpower the taste of the cucpake itself.. This one was for my sis's friend who ordered for gubahan and for herself... She's lucky cos it's the last of the golden tray packaging cos I can't find it anywhere anymore...


This was the main thing that I brought for the Raya Potluck at work.. I wanted to make use of my Wilton Decoration skills.. Hence I decorated my cheesecake with it.. Don't mind the ugly dark red borders that spoiled the cake.. I wanted to do some fancy decorations with the strawberry swirl but it FAILED.. haha.. Lucky for me, the roses decorations took off alot of people's eyes from that UGLY borders.. haha.. I apologize for the ugly writing.. Like I said, Im not so good at writing yet and it was really hard cos the buttercream won't stick to the cake because of the glaze.. Hence I had quite a hard time writing on the cake.. Furthermore.. I was actually rushing.. haha..  Other than the cheesecake.. I made some extra neapolitan cupcakes for the potluck.. And also I made nutella cupcakes..

I'm really glad that my colleagues and the NS boys loved the cheesecake and cupcakes I made cos they were gone quite fast... And some were even reserved for later.. haha.. I hope we can do these kinds of small gathering often though.. It was really nice and homely and I absolutely love Hafizah's rendang.. haha..

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No he can't read my pokerface~