a peek into my life: snippets of joy

I had my FIRST baking fun with the kids today, together with Mrs M and Mrs GL. The recipe came from Mrs M. They are the sunflower seeds cookies (although they tasted like gingerbread). The children’s hands are our ‘mixer’. Each of them took turns to mix and fold in the ingredients. The fun part was cutting out the cookies into different shapes. I want to try this again at home.

Next week will be my turn to do baking. And I will be doing cupcakes.

The 500 Muffins and Cupcakes which I borrowed from the library is a good book. There are many pretty cupcakes recipes to choose from. To make it easier, I selected a few easy to bake and with the pictures, I asked Zann to choose.

Zann  picked the spacedust cupcakes.

And these were the cupcakes I have baked.

I didn’t follow the steps in the book. Because I have planned to bake mini cupcakes instead. By adding yellow icing, I guess the cake looks more colorful. I still need more practice in the icing decoration.

Zann was more keen in the icing instead. She kept asking me to give her more…icing ! Now I know why children love cupcakes so much.

The most satisfying cake I have baked today. It’s a two layered sponge cake coated with strawberry cream and icing. Zann has helped me to decorate the top part with rainbow chip, while I cut out a big heart-shaped chocolate.

Click here for the recipe.

I was so nervous making the dough from scratch, but it still turned out easy. With the first succeeded attempt of the dough, I decided to try chicken pie the next time.

Click here for the recipe.

Zann didn’t want to leave my side when she saw me taking out my baking tools. I asked her if she wanted to help me, and she said yes enthusiastically. She was thrilled in cracking the eggs and pouring into the mixer. Until I had to stop her before she went on cracking all the eggs. 

She eventually got bored and sleepy and went off to the room. For a little while, it was nice to have her company !

This was an overdue post from last weekend. It has been awhile since I tried my hands on baking. Earlier,  I was reflecting whether to bake or buy a cake on Zann’s birthday. With the leftover cocoa powder and flour, I decided to make a testing attempt. And the result wasn’t good. The cake was too moist. 

Few months ago, I had blogged about searching for the donut tray. Well, I have finally got it few days ago. I managed to find it at Sun-Lik at $6.80. 
 

Wanted to see how my mini donuts would look like, with the copied recipe I got from Kitchen Capers. I decided to give a try today. Except for the flour, I did not get the recommended brand. However, half way through the mixing part, Zann asked me to play with her. I asked hb to take over. 

The results were not good. I was wondering which part went wrong. I had donut biscuits !

Maybe I will try again next time. But not so soon. *tired*