Oven failed me but still managed to churn out cupcakes!

Went to NTUC this morning to buy a 1kg pack of self-raising flour as I plan to try my hands at baking cupcakes this afternoon.

Following the recipe at http://bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2331639/perfect-cupcakes, but halving the recipe and cutting down the sugar (by alot), I managed to mix up a pretty moist, fluffy and light batter.

Thought I was all ready to go, but after putting in the muffin cups in our cheap Sona brand oven, we got a power trip!

Didn't want that batter to go to waste, so we thought why not put inside our oven toaster and see what happens.

Turned out that though the top of tne muffins were charred, the insides were fluffy and nice to eat! I added too little sugar though so it was kind of tasteless. But luckily, I added in some raisins and prunes, so that made the cupcakes a little more tasty.

Waffles!

Went to Toh Guam Road Enterprise Hub Eastpak to buy this $29.00 Takada wafflemaker today.

After two failed attempts at using some leftover pancake flour and brown sugar to cook the waffles using an improvised recipe, I decided it was better to stick as closely to the recipes I found online.

Bought stuffs like self-raising flour $2.90 baking soda $1.35 etc and started to work on the second version of the waffle batter.

Happily, this trial turned out pretty good! :)

Strabismus

Ok, so this is the medical term for the cross-eyes condition that I have.

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/strabismus.htm
http://www.childrensvision.com/strabismus.htm

Hooked on these Youtube videos

These videos of machines making cakes are so fascinating I spent an hour watching them

Sheet Cakes made with Unifiller: http://youtu.be/-kJ7R28ZDzM

At Salt Grill and Sky Bar Yesterday

$30++ pax for the afternoon tea

25, 24, 23 Jul 2014

20 Jul Saturday