The kid’s principal called up and order a batch of choco cupcakes for her nephew and niece. That was few months back. So you can see how I neglect this blog and many more comments in my blog I have not approve. So lazy to do it.  Even baking I also did less. The kids get bored with my cakes.

Decorated the cupcakes with bear and make some choco flowers for decoration. Oohhh it is not that easy handling cooking chocolate. Seriously, frankly… I never like chocolate. The aroma and the smell makes me headache. Hehehe…

Another set of cupcakes baked for a friend to give it to her clients for Deepavali this year. Thought of not taking the huge order but since I have the time just do it for the extra pocket money. But after that got complaint saying the icing is too sweet. Aiyor… icing supposed to be sweet isn’t it?  That is why doing cake business is hard. People are so health conscious nowadays. Even the cousins at home also like that. End up I got to tell them just scrap it off la. Haizzz… then what is the point decorating it? Might as well just eat plain. Hahaha … can save up a lot of my time for frosting.

Oohhh.. its been long I didn’t update this quiet blog of mine. There are a lot of post back log in the folder. Have been busy with work lately and rushing for a new product launch. I am getting excited about it. Last week is jam packed with meeting, and meeting and meeting. At least this week there are some breather space for me to at least log in to check this blog. Gosh… I nearly forgotten my log in ID and password. Damn bad memory lately.

Kids are on holiday now but they still go to their daycare. Above are a batch of cupcakes I baked for them during their last day of school. They had their children day on the last day of school somewhere last month and parents are to volunteer to sponsor foods or toys for the kids. When I send them to school with a box of cupcakes, my daughter told me “Mommy why so boring. Why everyday cupcakes?”. Oh no, I think she is sick seeing my cupcakes.

This is another Butter Cake I baked for Mom’s birthday two months back. I am a butter cake fan and still constantly looking for a good butter cake recipe but yet to find one at the moment. I wonder why the butter cake sold at the cake shop is so delish and love the aroma of the butter. Hmmmm… could it be they added butter essence on it?

This is another version of cupcakes for my son birthday last month.This round its for his birthday party in school. The last round he wanted Spiderman and now he wanted Thomas & Friends. He really got a lot to demand for. With his birthday fall on a weekday, I totally got no time to think of how to decorate the cupcakes into Thomas and Friends design. I ended up bought some of those edible icing from the website and then paste it on the cupcakes and just do minimal frosting at the side.

His teacher called me that day and told me the kids in class are very happy and impressed to see the cupcakes though it is just a simple butter cupcakes. Hahaha…

This is a request from my dear son, Ee-Thern. Its his birthday last month and I asked him what cupcakes design he wants for his birthday. He told me he wanted a Spiderman cupcakes. Gosh… I was scratching my head, aiyor… how to do it ah? Seriously I am not that good in doing that and really can’t figure out how to frost a Spiderman. Hence…. I took the short cut. Get Dearie Suki to print out the spiderman picturesand cut it out and stick it over a toothpick and used that as the picks for the cupcakes. What a brilliant idea! Hahaha.. Check it out HERE to see how happy is my dear son during his birthday party.

These cupcakes were baked for my cousin, nephew and niece birthday. Their birthday fall on the same month. The celebration is somewhere in August’09 and only now I have the time to upload it and blog about it. So can you imagine how busy and I nowadays.  A set of caterpillar cupcakes to make three of them a happy birthday kids one that day. I wonder whether they are amazed with the cupcakes I present it to them?

I am bored at home during the long weekend of holidays. Thought of bringing the kids for outing but the the rains kept pouring heavily during the afternoon for the past few days. Suddenly think of the nyonya kuih lapis or in Hokkien dialect we called it ” Kau Theng Keh ” which means 9 layer kuih. I am really not a kuih person but then I just did it just for the fun of it, although I can easily purchase it over at the night market stall which is far more nicer than mine. Hahaha…

Anyway, after browsing through the net for the recipe, finally I used my MSN buddy, Constance’s  recipe for the nyonya kuih lapis. The outcome of my kuih lapis is… it only has 7 layers instead of 9 layers. Maybe the round cake tin I used it a bit too big. Perhaps I should use a smaller one so that I can get a nice colourful 9 layers of kuih lapis.  

Ingredients : 
160g rice flour
20g green bean flour (hoen kwe flour)
150ml water

For the Syrup:
150g castor sugar
300ml water
2–3 screwpine leaves/pandan leaves, knotted
250ml thick coconut milk, squeezed from 1 grated coconut
1/4 tsp salt
A few drops red colouring

Method:
1. Combine sugar, water and screwpine leaves in a saucepan. Bring to a boil to dissolve the sugar. Strain and set aside to cool. Put rice flour and green bean flour into a large mixing bowl. Pour in water gradually and leave aside to soak for 40–45 minutes.
2. Add coconut milk and salt to the rice flour and mix well. Stir in syrup. Strain the batter to ensure it is free from lumps. Divide batter into two. Leave half a portion white and add colouring to the other half.
3. Place a greased 20cm tray in the steamer and heat up for 4–5 minutes. Pour half cup of the white batter on the heated tray. Cover and steam over medium heat for 5–6 minutes or until set. Pour half cup of the pink batter over the white layer and steam covered for 5 minutes.
4. Repeat the procedure, alternating white and pink batter until all the batter is used up.
5. To the very last layer add a little more colour to make it a deeper shade of pink. After the final layer is set, steam the kuih for a further 12–15 minutes. Halfway through open the lid to release the steam, then cover again until the end of the steaming process.
6. Cool the kuih thoroughly before cutting into small diamond-shaped pieces.

Baked this batch of Brownies Choco Cupcakes for my SIL’s birthday. The recipe is shared by my home economist, CK that I used to work with. The cupcakes turned out perfectly and guess what? It has a flat top! I am so happy with the outcome and this one is definitely a recipe keeper.

After frosting the cupcakes with buttercream, I packed it nicely in a cupcakes box and get the kids to send it to her on her birthday. I hope she like it. The balance of the cupcakes I piped out a simple star icing using the star nozzle and we gave that for Faye and the siblings at home.

I am not a chocolate lover actually but the kids at home is a big fan for chocolate including both my kids.

The Ramadhan bazaar is just right outside my house. I tried looking for this mini green pandan chiffon cakes from the stalls but couldn’t find it. None of the Malay Mak Cik sell this kuih this year and it is one of my favourite. The name of this kuih is called Kuih Putri Ayu. Every year without missed I will tend to buy this kuih whenever I visit the stalls. But this year it is very much dissapointed, perhaps I should go to other Ramadhan bazaar near UPM.

Since I couldn’t find it, I googled for it and get the recipe and try out last weekend.

Ingredients :
2 eggs
100 gm castor sugar
125 gm self raising flour,sieved
150ml coconut milk
5 pieces pandan leaves
1 tsp ovallete
Few drops of green colouring
Some grated coconut
1 tsp tapioca flour
Some salt
Some oil for greasing the mold

Method:
1. Mix together salt, tapioca flour and grated coconut. Add about 1 tsp into the greased jelly mold and press hard on it. Leave the mold in the steamer.
2. In a mixer, beat eggs and sugar till white and fluffy. Then add in ovallette and continue beating till creamy.
3. In a blender, blend the pandan leaves with some water ( approximately about 50ml water ). Strained to get the juice only. Mixed it with coconut milk.
4. Stir in flour and alternate it with coconut milk. Add a few drops of green colouring.
5. Fill the mold till almost full or you can fill up till 3/4 full.
6. Steam over high heat for about 15 - 20 mins.

Note:
1. Make sure to greased the mold with some oil. Due to my laziness, I didn’t greased it and I had difficulty removing it from the mold.