After Months...

After months of not touching my baking utensils...

I FINALLY brought my baking game ON!

Nothing spectacular.. I just baked my simple but yummilicious vanilla cupcakes. 

But this time 'round with a twist. I added some dark chocolate swirls to it. 

Definitely a favourite now. (:

My brother was particularly happy. I haven't baked it..come to think of it 3 months. So he was just happy he finally got some home-made sweet treats.

Before pulling these outta the oven... I was known as the 'retired baker'. haha

Now, I'm back to being 'The Baker".

Hope all you lovelies are enjoying the Easter break! (:

Happy Easter!

xX

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

That was what I baked this afternoon. :D

Today has been pretty productive. I did so many things today, but not all things study related. haha. I have no idea why I was having an insomnia last night. Believe it or not, I was still awake at 4 am. :O I went to bed at 12-ish 1 and I was just tossing and turning, thinking about things for 3 hours! I thought most about the 3 papers that I just did. :S 

Yes, I'm afraid I kid you not. I have no idea why...

I must say... I did put much more effort into this semester. My goals were higher and I actually made sure I did all I could to achieve them during the semester, i.e work super hard for tutorial tests (which happens to be every 2 weeks throughout the semester-.-), made sure I did all the tutorial work and I understood what I did, and of course I was particular in making sure my assignments were kickass material before submitting them. 

But somehow, I feel rather sick thinking about my final grades :S

Everyone tells me that if I've done my part, that's all that I can do. I've to leave the rest to God. Hmm... Guess I need more Faith. (: I've to lean on Him.

I'm getting sidetracked here.. haha

Anywayyyy, I slept at 4-ish woke up at 10 am. Not. Enough. Sleep. 

Surprisingly, I didn't feel half dead. I made a target to go through 3 chapters of QA work. And boy, after I finished those 3 chapters, I was super restless. No more work could be done. 

So after lunch, I decided to bake these...

Fresh outta the oven

Chewy cookies. I like. 

I actually tried a new recipe. Haven't done this before. And the measurements were different. Instead of telling me how many cups of flour I needed, it was 300 grams of flour. And I had to do the conversions -.-

I needed something like 55 grams of cocoa, 3 grams of salt (who measures 3g???), 2 grams of baking soda (2 g??? whaaat????). So I decided to act smart. I used my agak-agak (estimation) skills. haha

Them cookies didn't turn out so bad actually. But they looked rather dull and sad.

Perhaps some colourful royal icing would brighten them up a 'lil. Possibly more life would be seen with some dashing colours!

Oh well, pretty cookies after exams! (:

Tomorrow has to be a productive studying day. And I'm gonna make sure I sleep early tonight. 

Hope your day has been good, dolls! (:

xX 

Iced Biscuits!

I have no idea why I'm itching to bake some iced biscuits. I think it came from reading about them on Cupcakes and Cashmere while I was blog surfin'. Emily makes pretty sugar biscuits I must say! (:

I was searching for EASY sugar/ iced biscuit recipes on the net. Found a couple of easy ones, but I must say, making 'em biscuits is time consuming. Maybe not time consuming when I'm free... But defo feels like it takes too much time when I have my last paper to prepare for.

I don't have a clue why all sorts of 'cool' ideas come to me when I'm friggin' busy/ stressed out. Hmm...so if iced biscuits project turn out well, I might be able to do a lil' something something with them. Oh well, we'll see.

I actually got as far as purchasing this book today. Got it online! 

A book written by Biscuiteers themselves!

Check out their website. The biscuits looks uber cute!!!

How do you resist such things?? (:

Too pretty right???

If only I was in the UK... I'll get these delivered to my doorstep!

Plus, these biscuits come in uber chic tins! It'll make a greaaat gift!

I won't mind getting them... :P

Ok guys, bed time for me now. Would need to bury my face in my textbook tomorrow!

xX

Yumm!

I decided to bake cupcakes after dinner today! haha

It was 'cos I couldn't find anything else I wanted to eat. I needed something sweet! hehe. So I made use of some new baking utensils my mom brought the last time 'round. 

And this is what I came up with... 

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12 only -.- Edisi terhad (Limited edition) haha

Half way preparing, I felt lazy to make the buttercream icing. I saw the recipe and it said "150g of butter". Gosh..that's too much fat! It suddenly occurred to me, after all these time. haha

So I decided to sprinkle hundreds and thousands on the cupcakes instead, before placing them into the oven. 

My cupcakes kembang-ed so much I was afraid it wouldn't turn out nice. 

But it came out pretty and very yummy indeed. :D

Hmm...I need more gym! 

And long breaks in between tutorials and lectures don't help 'cos I end up doing this...(in the library) haha

NOT. Good

Kena caught!

I've got plans for high tea tomorrow! I'm so excited to visit the Tea Room. haha

*yawns* Goodnight y'all!

xX

Old School Baking

"We rock it old school!" hmm..Is that a line from White Chicks or something? Haha

But yes..I did some baking the old school method today. Instead of using my new handmixer, I used a whisk. I have no idea why I opted for that. Hmm...maybe 'cos I was a lil upset before baking. Using the whisk to beat the eggs was an outlet to release some anger and dissatisfaction I guess. haha. But before handmixers were invented, didn't it take just too much effort to bake? LoL

I made a simple sponge cake. Beating the eggs till they were stiff wasn't a very easy task I must say. My arm hurt so bad after that. I had to keep asking my mom "Is this ready yet?" And she'll go "Beat it for awhile more". Definitely not something I like hearing at that time. 

Just stood in the same position for about 20 mins. Well, I think it was 20 mins. I actually don't know. Didn't check the time. But it did feel like That long. haha

And finally I got the egg white looking like this!

After adding in the egg yolk, sugar and self raising flour, I managed to get this...

Actually it looks the same. Just a bit yellow-er 'cos of the egg yolk and the texture was thicker cos of the self-raising flour.

This went straight into the oven for 20 minutes and became this..

Yayy!!! Success :D

Oh..and since I was on a baking roll. I made chocolate chip cookies too! 

This happens to be my family's favourite at the moment. You just get so satisfied when something you bake or cook gets comments like "Mmmm...this is yummy!" :D

I made all these in under an hour! This is fast! Well, I got a kitchen helper at the moment... Mummy. hehe

Gosh, sugar rush no? :P

Anyway, this is random info but BBM is being a pain these few days. Grrrrr... The boyfriend is usually just a BBM message away, but my conversations have been cut really short now due to its inefficiency. -.- Please BBM, fix yourself soon. Thank you! (:

Hope your weekend is going great!

xX

Choco Chip is Love!

Just as promised earlier today, my chocolate chip cookies are up! :D

This is just one deck. The other has been removed

Fresh outta the oven! I don't know why they expanded sooooo much? Maybe 'cos I added a lil too much baking soda :S it was an accident! yikes! But it still tasted pretty good. That's what the parents said..Wait...That's what parents always say to their kids, no? Unless whatever you put up in front of them is really bad. haha

But the brother ate a few of them already. So I'm guessing it's really not that bad. hehe..I didn't take any 'cos of the itchy throat. Have been drinking lotsa lotsa water today. Should be fine by tomorrow. Hopefully. *cross fingers* :P

I baked with a mask on..So don't worry, I didn't contaminate the cookies! Hmm..I had four things to do on my list from this morning. I've done 2. Maybe I'll have time to do another 'task' before it's bed time. Upload the pics perhaps? That really doesn't take a lot of effort and work. But I'm just so lazy at the moment. Sigh. This is bad.

Btw, I thought uni was starting in August. I'm wrong! Gosh, it's starting on the 19th of July! Since when??? Back to uni again? Seriously? That means I gotta get myself focused again. Hope this coming semester will be better than the last one (:

xX