Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Sunday......

Yesterday while having breakfast at Punggol Plaza, we saw this funny sight.  Mom wanted to get some fruits from the wet market and look what we saw:

 

LOL!  Yep... the cat was eyeing the fishmonger and watching the fish and seafood like a hawk.  FUNNY EH?

On another note... I guess its starting to become quite a sunday routine.... Jac and I baked again yesterday. LOL!  We made a batch of Chocolate Chunks and banana walnut cookies but it did not really turn out as planned.. according to family members who ate it.. it tasted fantastic... but I was telling Jac that it was like a flat muffin..instead of a cookie..lol.

Then we went on to bake TIRAMISU cookies.  Now that was gooooood..... check out the pics:

 

 

This required a lot of work but it was worth it!  We had to separate the egg whites and yolks then treat them separately with different ingredients then combine the mixtures together again to form the base.  After that, we piped the mixture onto baking trays, dusted on some cocoa powder and baked it to form the 'sandwich'. Also, we mixed Marscapone cheese with rum (you can replace with any coffee liquer) and vanilla extract to make the center 'cream'. The cookie was coated at the bottom with melted semi sweet chocolate then fridged to harden.  Once the chocolate hardened, we added marscapone cheese mix to one of the base and sandwiched another onto it to form a 'oreo look alike' cookie.

IT TASTED GOOOOOOOOD.

Lastly... i maanged to scrap!  Did a simple layout of a photo I took with Celine Navarro (who will be coming to Singapore to teach at MWL in May! woohoo!)

 

I really love the colours of this layout... that rich green background from Basic Grey and all the yummy Sassafras goodies.  ... and multi toned prima flowers. yum!  I used crayons to doodle on the sides.  The stamped circles were from a Unity stamp I bought while in Anaheim.

Thanks for dropping by and have a nice week!

Of Mufs and Bons.

right.. so i'm taking a lil break.. getting some food into my system and posting this coz my sister wants to grab the photos. LOL.  Yesterday we baked again.  We've been on this baking streak for some weeks now and been trying to perfect our Muffin recipe.  I'm happy to report that after several attempts.... yesterday's batch came out PERFECTO!

We made Chocoloate Banana muffins.... yum!

 

We also went down to Shermay's to grab some Valrhona chocolates and made Cornflakes and Almond Bon Bons.  They were SUPER easy to make and we had both milk chocolate and dark chocolate bon bons.

 

Do you know how much these cost when you buy them from Godiva or Sins or Canele?  Probably will come up to like 2 bucks per bon bon.  Granted they probably used really premium chocolates for making these but hey..... Valrhona is not cheap too but we made quite a big batch (2 trays worth) with about $25 worth of Valrhona chocolates.!  They taste reaaalllly good....

aiya... left them at my parent's home.. now feel like having some!!!!! 

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okay... now back to work!

have you seen the muffin man?

My voice has been terrible the past week.... and it got a little worse today.  The coughs have descended... uggggh.  My voice has been gone all week but so far its just been that... a lack of voice.  No pain.. no coughs.. but today i've been coughing quite a bit.  sigh

Anyways Jac and I baked yesterday.  We made blueberry muffins for tea and they turned out REALLY YUMMY.  Not bad for our first attempt at baking these muffins. hehehee.

Check them out:

 

 

It was super easy to do this.. and we had the muffins ready for tea in no time.  Maybe next time we should try corn muffins or banana nut muffins.  yummmmmm.

And as promised... here is another sneak for the new March workshop I'm conducting...

   

Gonna go grab a warm drink now.. good night!