Gong Xi Gong Xi

On the way to Ah Ma and Kung Kung house for reunion dinner..




On the way to Ah Ma and Kung Kung house on first day of CNY...



Ahh... I love Gong Xi Fatt Chai...


(psst...he thought he is drinking shandy. I have change the content tp 100 Plus...)

2nd day of CNY at 1U

Carnival at Taman Mutiara Puchong

Snap shots from the carnival on the 7 February 2010



Vintage Cars

Does this one look like 3 wheels blue car in Mr Bean show? haha...


Citroen back


Citroen front


My favorite

Me? Monster?

I don’t know why mommy call me monster…

I can be a fish…




Or hippo…




Or even a tin man…




But monster? Do I look like a monster to you?

Steam Chocolate Cupcake

I get this recipe from www.janicetimes.blogspot.com. This is one recipe that I would definately keep.

However, I make a slight changes to it as I further reduce the sugar to 200g and instead of producing 9-inch cake, I have turned it into cupcakes.

190 g butter
200g castor sugar
1/2 can full cream evaporated milk (about 200ml)
2 eggs
1 cup self raising four
1/2 cup good quality cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

1. Prepare your steamer or wok before making the cake

2. (A) combine sugar, evaporated milk and butter in a double boiler. stir over the low heat until sugar dissolved and butter is melted. turn off and leave it to cool.

3. (B) In the meantime, sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda into a large mixing bowl

4. Wait for (A) to cool. Then add in the eggs and mix thoroughly.

5.Finally pour (A) mixture into the flour and stir till well combined. (somehow there were lumps in my batter and i have to filter the batter)

6. Pour the batter into the cups (I use aluminium cups) and steam it for 15 minutes . (or 40 minutes if using 9-inch pan)

Before steaming (the batter should be runny)



After Steaming



For the topping:
1/2 can condensed milk
4 tbsp of vegetable oil
20g cocoa powder (sifted)

Combine all the above and stir it over the low heat till the mixture thicken. Once cool pour it over the cake and decorate it.....

As for the topping, I do not follow the above recipe. I make a simple butter cream by combining 4 tbsp of butter, 2 tbsp of icing sugar and 1 tbsp of cocoa powder. Whipped using fork and make sure the cupcakes were fully cool before spreading in on the top.

Cupcake Chic

This was our first trip to The Curve since Old M operation. Thinking of giving the two M's treats, we brought them to Cupcake Chic.




Big M picked all chocolate cupcake (Death by Chocolate or something like that)




Small M choose chocolate cupcake with vanilla topping (Orthello)




As for myself, I decided on pistachio cake with rose icing or something like that (Couldn't remember the name), hoping it wont be too sweet.




How do I find the cupcakes?

They are terribly terribly sweet. Cupcakes picked by the 2 M's have the same base, very chocolaty with generous bits of chocolate chips (taste more like chocolate sugar) in it. It would probably taste better if they microwaved it a bit.

My pistachio cupcake? The were pistachios bits in it but it was marred by the terribly sweet taste.

Don't understand why need so much sugar in the cupcake. Of course the topping would be sweet, it was make from sugar anyway, but the cake?

The cupcake sell at RM4.50 each. This reminded me of a steam chocolate cupcake that I would like to make at home.