Pink Lemon Cupcakes

me + cupcakes = mutilated cupcakes

theyre still nice to eat ^___^

all 37 pieces finished

pink lemon cupcakes everyone

they look peachy :P

CUPCAKES BERJAYA

cupcakes were never my specialties

they always turn out wrong no matter how much effort on to them.

this time round

THEY TURNED OUT GOODThey tasted better than how they look.

know Magnolia bakery?
theyre this famous bakery at NYC.
and they've become extremely popular among tourist ever since they cast Sex and the City at the bakery.

and now you might be wondering why mine turned out unpleasant.

well i am a very messy wannabe chef

and i lost a bag of icing sugar...which resulted in no frosting for my lovelies.

this is a highly recommended and not just by me. if Magnolia cupcakes werent good they wouldnt be a sell out

So to those who love baking like me ( cheh ) you guys should try this cupcake.

http://www.recipelink.com/cookbooks/2005/0743246616_3.html

and now some piccies from the first batch

they came out GIGANNORMOUS

made 30 something pieces but now 5 are left. i baked these babies just yesterday.XD

i made brownies as well on one single day cuz my grandma was like begging me to make some.

"hitam hitam knape x buat yg hitam tu"

SWT she calls brownies hitam. and then after that i said lah " nah i buat kueh mak.mkn lah"

she replied " oh klau x buat pon xpe "
-____________________________-" swt somemore.

turned out too nipis heheheh

Indonesian VS Malaysian Donuts

AT LAST.
ive finally got to taste Big Apple Donuts after Kakak came home with a box of 6 of it. Ive always wanted to try these even before the existence of JCo but you know lah Big Apple is at the Curve and OU while JCo is at Pavillion which is exactly opposite my moms work place.

Rounds are sooooo overated. Round logos are like everywhere.

To be frank i was a little upset when i opened the box to have my first look at its content. There were similarities to JCo donuts yet its still not the same.

JCo - very neat and appertizing

Big Apple - Not so neat but still edible

and now a better view of other JCo donuts that ive eaten before

see the diff?

Presentation : JCo wins hands down.

Now what about the taste?

Im just gonna review Big Apple's only since thats the latest donut i consumed.. huhu and i apologize for not knowing its name since they didnt state down the names on the receipt.

Oreo , top right : it didnt taste like it. Idk it couldve been because i kept it in the fridge before eating and that somehow diminishes its taste???

Sesame, top middle : very interesting. clearly something ive never come across but it tasted normal...

Kiwi, top left : this is my favourite out of the bunch ( for now perhaps ). Kiwi flavoured jelly in the middle and the sides, the white part is very milky.

White Chocolate with hazelnut, bottom left : its like a bad version of jco's. both taste and look ( third pic, top, 2nd from left ).

Chocolate with crispies, bottom middle : talk about plain. i hate both jco and big apple's for this one

Cinnamon : very faint taste of cinnamon. barely even. cinnamon rolls worth more of your money than this.

Currently fav flavour

JCo : Tira Miss U (first pic bottom left)

Big Apple : The Kiwi Thing XD

The Donut itself??

JCo : very soft and thin. its like almost fragile. squish one part of it and its forever squished... LOLX

Big Apple : err... idk what to say about it since i ate right after taking them out of the refridgerator :P. but what i can tell its very filling and when you squish it, it returns back to its original shape. and thats why i pinch them everytime before having a taste of it. hehehe

Overall indonesia wins over malaysia T.T

jkjkjkjkjkjkjk ^__________^

next time ill get both donuts by myself. but for now ive my minions to have them freshly delivered.

BWAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAX

KL Band Competition

Saturday

regular activity : piano class

17th June : Anugerah Cemerlang and KL Band Comp

all these concludes to another hectic Saturday.

How the day started off

Went to school for Anugerah Cemerlang to get my certificate and money. Turns out in the envelope was a RM 30 voucher instead of 50 bucks. -_-" i thought they would've gave that kind of amount or slightly higher considering that during UPSR the school gave out a 100 bucks.

Due to Anugerah Cemerlang i reached for my piano class a half an hour late. Good thing Mama informed her. I tried calling her cell a gazilllion times yet i couldnt get through. But all this while ive been dialling the wrong number. LOLX

After class fly myself off to Nad's place. Going to band comp together gether, help make cheer props ( i'm the unofficial props manager :P) and sleeping over as well. Finally get to meet Akmal again. Surprisingly he remembered my name (Los, Los). The benefits that Uncle Amir's family gets whenever a friend comes over to their place is that Akmal will be overly excited by the prescense of new people. Meaning that i had to baby sit him. Which is annoying at times no matter how cute the 3 year old boy is.

Lepas Maghrib went to Dataran Merdeka for the competition. By then there were a hell of people already around the kandang. Should have worn heels so that i couldve gotten a better view. BAH. So i was depending a lot on the huge screen to see the bands performance.

The schools that competed were:

1) CBN : Band isnt their forte as Nad has said. They had elements of cheer and they did a cheer formation at the very end of the performance. 0_0

2) Jinjang : Good choice of songs.

3) Cochrane : Choreography was pretty good. Im not sure if it were Cochrane or Jinjang's drum major that kept letting the baton(?) fall without attempting to save it. It was just frustrating cuz he never tried to. Like no semangat also.

4) VI : The best band that night. The flag "peganger" were almost synchronize. Im sorry i cant remember what this people are called no matter how many times ive asked Nad about it. I think the kayu jatuh once..i think...but still it brought no effect to their performance and the "flag peganger" wore suspenders which is really classy. I LOVE THOSE STUFF.^_^

5) St John : Have to say that VI were better than them. * shrugs* i got bored of all performances after VI so i didnt concentrate much on them. Like every year they'll come around and wear those cowboy hats. Which is a huge turn off for me. Choreography aint that great but no mistakes occured if im correct.

6) Chung Hwa : I cant comment on them. I ran off right after St John. huhu

While waiting for the results go meet a few people which werent familiar to me. LOLX. Nad practically knows everyone and wave to all those around. Social butterfly. WTV. While looking for Alief before Nad could run off to some place :P some girl just stopped me and ask for my number. WTH. why?? i ask lah. and she was like "ala please lah nak nombor". Stumped i said " sorry no" and ran off...LMAO

Scawy. XD

Had a performance by the police people. Kesian them. Muka damn serious but theyre dancing to corny malay, english and even hindi songs with each other and they hugged as well ( awww ).

A lot of SBS people turned up. Saw a form 5 girl and guy, then bumped into Meranti students ( agama class together gether ) and cheer kiddos.

Winners of the night

1st : VI

2nd : St John

3rd : Chung Hwa

Congrats cuz this time its far more better than last years performance.

Frankly speaking i didnt really enjoy watching the band as much as last year. With everyone at the same level as the performers its real hard to have a good view of the performance. I stood behind this guy and watched the first 3 schools perform under his ear so that the lights wouldnt blind my sight. XD it definitely hurt my neck.

Finished around 11. One hour earlier than expected. Lepak lah for awhile then balik. and

TIDO.

i didnt break a sweat at all throughout the comp. :d

Im amazing

* cheesy smile *

Next Day

Again layan Akmal, finish props, went to the salon to get Nad's and Auntie Nora's hair done for some party and again baby sit Akmal. I salute Sab everytime she goes over to Nad's and jage Akmal. Went to Ampang Point makan Baskin n Robbins. First time eating :P i suck for that. I never like the idea of eating it alone so when Nad wanted some might as well just join in.

Ordered a scoop of Apple Mint Ice Cream. Its just heaven. Aint to sweet like vanilla and the flavours just right. Not that minty like as if they threw in a crate of Clorets. :)

So who's up for food reviews around KL and Ampang??

i feel the need to head off to Big Apple Donuts at LowYat to try some....

6 years ago ( if I'm correct ) my mom gatal tangan bought a bread maker. Up til now its never been used.

So today after searching high and low for the missing mixing paddle I've made my first loaf of bread.

TADA!!!

it didnt turn out right but it'll do. I'm still happy that i managed to make one.

As you can see above the brand is worldstar and its suppose to be from Japan. Sounds unfamiliar? I feel the same way. I've lost the box and the manual to termites (bloody vermons) so really i had to learn it on my own. Googled "worldstar bread maker" and in return google gives me unappropriate things like porno. blink blink. Dont go checking that out.

Clearly this machine was manufactured in China. I assume lah

Learn bit by bit, trying to understand how it operates.

30 minutes gone this baby is ready to ROCK N ROLL.

Early this morning around 7 i couldnt sleep after hearing the horrible murmurs from kakak, dier mengigau, i couldnt fall back to sleep. So then i decided to have a go at the breadmaker. Dump the ingredients inside and let the machine work. I didnt have bread flour and i couldnt even find the plain one either. Cari - cari found this abandoned sack of flour. It couldve been self raising or instant pancake mix. shrugs. dump it in with the rest.

expanding. Looks like a toilet bowl though

It took about 3 hours for the whole process. While waiting watch lah House of Flying Daggers. Its shocking that i had the cd for more then 2 years yet ive never seen it. Anyway i hated the ending.

beep beep

it's alive

i forgot to take a picture of the bread as a whole. Couldnt help ripping the sucker off.

The texture didnt turn out like real bread and that's what has been anticipated. The crust taste bitter 0_0 that's just scary. But the bread taste ok and the smell of yeast is very strong.

All the more today's experiment wasnt a complete failure. Mama promised to buy bread flour so i could make more. and more AND MORE

BWAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHX

The Irony

PRETZELS

i made pretzels yesterday

Except that they didnt look like pretzels.. hehehe

and they taste pretty good for an ameteur baker...kembang seyh

Malas to shape them as how pretzels should have originally looked. Take the cookie cutter, tempek on the dough and bake. So much easier and less time consuming ^_^

Made them while watching this Agama Forum about perubatan Islam then suddenly Papa calls

0_0 said he wanted to bring me, Kakak and Zafirah for some perubatan Islam

What a coinkident.

So after dinner we went all the way to Batu Caves. I simply just wore a baju kurung with tudung without taking note that they both clash horribly. So's with the other two but i stood out like a sore thumb more. A very weird combination but whatever lah. Nak pegi berubat. kononnye lah

Heard some ceramah by the so-called bomoh. He had a booming voice. Like he's about to go strangle someone. But he's a devoted muslim. Oh yeah he kept on referring Papa as Dato'.

Dato'???

Kakak and I were practically like -_-" with question marks over our heads. Biler mase plak Papa jadi Dato'. I bet those who came would have thought that anak Dato' had no fashion sense or sah tak pakai tudung..LOLX

Waited, waited till it was 1 am. Lot of people showed up to diubatkan. One after another then our turn came in. Kakak went up first. She's got a bloated stomach. Something that she's been suffering since last December.Kesian tau..

The bomoh urut-urut and yada2. My turn next. Problem : Sinus. He pressed he's thumb on my forehead real damn hard. I think i suffered a minor migraine after that. Then he proceeded to take some ointment and wrote Allah on my forehead.

Aliff, lam, lam, ha

SMACK.....he smacked my forehead

and again he spelled and a SMACK

and a SMACK.

aduh...ouch

So meaning i went there to get my sickness treated from 8 till 2 in the morning to get 3 hard smack on my pimple-fied forehead. yeah that definitely hurt more than those who have clear skin.

Reach home and straight to bed. Its sad to know that I've to be there next week. 6_6

It Was No Friday

Finally got to taste the well known All American Diner, TGI Friday. I dont know what's with the whole fuss among teens at school about this restaurant but i find it to be like any typical restaurant. Went to the Pavillion branch right after watching the latest instalment to George Lucas's Indiana Jones with Mama, Zafirah and Peter Pan (Mr Kaas).

I was dead tired and i felt like sleeping right after the movie. The atmosphere really could have put me to sleep with all its dim lights at every table. That's why i didnt talk much during dinner. My eyes were fixed at the prices while scanning through the menu. Didnt want Mama to pay so much for dinner cuz I often feel guilty whenever I get something that worths or slightly less than the lipstick she owns. I really cant remember what i ordered but i recall the word mushroom in the menu. And cost quite reasonable ^-^

Mama's appetizer came up first. Shrimp Martini. It has a very...interesting taste. Sour and spicy and served cold. Banyak tomato puree in it. The shrimps somehow ah.. look like something that came out from a sci fi movie but of course it tasted better than it looked.

Note that i didnt actually take any pictures since i've lost my cam. So the pics are taken from various blogs and web pages.

NO I DID NOT STEAL THEM. I just took them without permission. :P

The pic's from http://www.nicolekiss.blogspot.com/

Then everyones dinner popped out at the same time. yeah so i happen to get the hamburger. And i clearly forgotten whatever its called. Zafirah had fish n chips. Again i cant remember what Mama and Peter ordered and i apologize for that but she had fish while he had steak (?). It shall remain a mystery.

As everyone should have known TGI serves their dishes in American portion. My hamburger were so out of the usual McDonald size. Eating it like i how normally do, as in with hands was troublesome and during the process i totally lost my table manners. Its plain gruesome even with fork and knife.

But i managed.

To be honest it wasnt really all that GREAT. It really tasted like it came out from McDonald's kitchen but more freshly cooked and juicier. I think the best part of my burger was the buns. And that is why i ate them on their own. Ahhhh....grilled buns....mmm

It was sad that i couldnt finish my fries. Right after the trip to the loo i was confident that i can store more chips in my tummy....but then it was taken away.

Not to happy about that. :/

Like i said i had some space left in my tummy. Looked to my left Zafirah couldnt finish her fish. Ambik pi lah. Peter and Mama practically laughed at how greedy i was.

At first when i popped a small piece of fish inside my mouth i swear to God it tasted like chicken. Mam mam some more it tasted pretty good. The tartar sauce enhances the flavour of the fish. Enjoyed that more than my actual dinner

Haish should have ordered that. If only i knew.

Desert. Cookies n Cream. Splendid. The three of us (excluding Mama) fought through to get a portion after another. But in a very polite way. and quiet.

Peter was like "Never in my entire life have i dine with 3 quiet ladies"

When you're hungry we definitely just concentrate on eating and nothing more.

And that's how we work, Mr Kaas.

That was how we ended our dinner session. Total up the whole thing and it was RM 170 and a few sens. 0_0

For something that i half enjoyed it was certainly pricey. Alas it was expected. Peter decided to settle the bill. hehe Thank you, sir.

And that's how we ended our Wednesday.