Weekend Baking-Blueberry and Chocolate chips Muffin!

Getting into X’mas mood, I sudden have the urge to bake. Those we know me, I’m not a cake person and I don’t bother or travel far to have a good cake treat. Anyway, it was a long weekend and thinking of pasting my time with good use, hehe..like real, I decided to bake! Not the over elaborated kind but I decided to bake something easy and non-brainer. Also, less cleaning and do not require much ingredients to hunt and is easily to buy or have in your kitchen.

After work, I drop by Cold Storage. Browsing thru the cake section, I came across Krusteaz-Wild Blueberry mix! Turning behind the box, the instruction is so easy and what’s more I only need an egg, vegetable oil (I substitute it with butter) and 5.3oz of water (I substitute it with orange juice). In addition to this, I bought some muffins cup and a muffin tray.

After dropping home, I was so excited to start baking but I stop myself till the next day so that I can have it with my afternoon tea!

Here’s the ABC step by step to your Wild Berry Cup Cakes…! The good thing about this Krusteaz muffin mix comes with a can of blueberry! See, I don’t even need to run around to look for blueberry. It’s all in a box and I only need to gather a little strength to open the lid, ok, I use a can opener. Run through the berry under cold water. Drain and put aside.

This is what I prepare an egg, butter (half of it), Krusteaz muffin mix, 5.3oz of orange juice (not in the pic) and Hershey’s mini button chocolate (my own creation to throw in some chocolate chips..yummy!)

Break the egg, fold in the muffin mix, pour in the juice and start blending the mix.

Blend it till you get a velvety texture. If you still don’t, you are not working your muscle! Start blending or if you are just a princess, my advice get a machine to help you.

Next, pour in the chocolate chips and the last to go are the berries! You do not want your berries become to mushy.

Line the baking tray with the muffin cups and pour in about 2/3 of the mix. For deco, I threw in some choco chips on top of the muffin mix. Push them in slightly inside as they will stay put on top of your muffin prettily, else it will stop dropping off like rat shit when you remove them out from the tray.

Ta-DA! Looks good eh?!

Of course, it tastes good and yummmmmy too! Don’t you think you can bake like a professional now with Krusteaz?

Yes, you can! Go and try it and they have other flavours too!

Cycling @ East Coast Park

After sometime, I manage to fulfill one of my waiting lists that is – bring Zach for a spin at East Coast Park (ECP).

It was a good and bright Sunday morning and Dad, Lily and Sis was in town. I marched the troop to ECP for early in the morning with MH half sleeping. We reach the Family bicycle (Carpark E, near to the East Coast food court) kiosk at 8:15am and rented the bikes for 2 hours. I wasn’t’ very happy with this shop due to some incidence happen later on. We went there after a few times and I feel their service level sucks. I may consider other kiosk in future and I’m sure there are plenty out there.

It was our very first time we did the tandem cycle. Initially I was a little skeptical as I have not done this for sometime. Considering that I’m the “main rider” and carrying Zach and Mh (who was heavy :p), maneuvering the bike needs skill. Anyway, we manage to cycle at least 10km. The bicycle route is very scenic and if you go there before the sun is up, the air will be very cooling and pleasant to ride.

Zach was a little confuse intially. Am I on a stroller with mum?

 

Here comes the threesome

 

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I'm BACCCCCCCCCCCCK to blogging!

Hi everyone! I'm back to blogging after so many donkey months! I had missed out so many activities to update eveyone and I had a very strong intention of abandoning this blog. You know, it's just like an old car engine that has been sitting in the garage making pretty and collecting dust.

Anyway, I'm all energised and I just cant wait to blog! Stay tuned and you will see updates in this blog soooooooon!



Sneak peak…

this shows how long I have not been blogging. Zach has been growing so much and he’s coming to 2 this 3rd Dec09!


This weekend, we have decided to venture out again to look for a play school for Zach. Oh yes, we did a trial class for him at Julia Gabriel and he joined the Bilingual Playclub for 18-3 ½ years. Boy, it was fun and he had a blast time there! However, we decided to source for more options to compare as both of us know nuts on this play school thingy and more options will at least gives us a well informed decision made.

Wish us luck and will update you again!