Abandon Blog

Wow! This blog has been left aside for quite sometimes ever since hubby and I created it. Too bad, our newly created blog not actively use!

So far from so many blog that I have visited, I think this tool is quite powerful, but just only I have to take sometimes to explore and get familiar with it.

Butter Cake From Baking Mum

Come across with another butter cake recipe from one of my favourite site - Baking Mum, and would like to have a try. Her lovely butter cake really gives me motivation to try out as her recipe looks very promising and easy to follow, not that complicated. Most important is in 'grams', not measurement cup! I don't hate using the measurement cup, only I have to invest one.

Here is my freshly bake butter cake, my hubby loves it so much, so does Wayne. A big accomplishment for the day!



Here to share with you her butter cake recipe.

Ingredients:
250 gm butter
200 gm caster sugar
6 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
300 gm self-raising flour (sifted)
½ to 3/4 cup of evaporated milk

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 160°C.
2. Beat the butter with the caster sugar until white and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time and mix well. Then add is vanilla essence and evaporated milk and mix well.
3. Lastly fold in sifted flour into the butter mixture and mix well. Pour into a greased and lined cake tray and bake for about an hour.

Hair Cut From Grandma

Wayne had his very first hair cut at the salon since last year August2008. That will be his first and last to have his hair cut! From that day onwards, he never entered to salon anymore. I have no idea what makes him so afraid and stops him from entering. Maybe he had phobia cutting his hair at salon. Left with no choice, grandma has to 重出江湖, to cut her grandson's hair.



As you can see, he is very cooperative, he is more willingly to let his grandma to cut his hair than in salon. Good point was definitely much cheaper than cutting his hair at any salon. A hair cut can easily cost us S$6 on him, now he is helping us to save some money!

Even till now he still tend to avoid having his hair cut at the salon, all his hair cut done at home now by grandma.

Yummy Banana Cake

Here I come across with this link - Baking Mum, where she shares her baking experience and recipe. One of the recipes that I picked for the day is to bake a banana cake.

In case you only want the banana cake recipe and not others, so I listed out the recipe from her blog for your convenience. Yeah!

Ingredients:
180 gm. Butter
180 gm. Fine sugar (I cut down to 150 gm)
2 nos. Extra large Eggs - beaten lightly
250 gm. Cake flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Bicarbonate of Soda
220 gm. Bananas - mashed
50 gm. Dairy whip cream (I use evaporated milk)
1/2 tsp. Banana essence (I replace with 1 tsp vanilla essence)
2 bananas - slice

Method:
(1) Cream butter and sugar till light and creamy.
(2) Pour in eggs gradually and beat till creamy.
(3) Add in whip cream, mashed bananas and banana essence and mix well.
(4) Add in cake flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and beat for a while only.
(5) Pour into an 8" round tray, and arrange sliced bananas on top.
(6) Bake at 175C for about 50 to 60 mins. or until cooked.

I followed the ingredients exactly, except I did turn some into muffin. Here is the banana cake that I have baked this afternoon.



I like the texture of the cake, is just so soft, fluffy and moist! This is the recipe that I was looking for and it just suits my taste. I just loves it so much and will definitely bake again!

Here are the muffins I mention just now. It takes about 20minutes to bake at 175C. It turns out well either!



What's for next? I target to bake bread. I have not decide what type of bread but would like to have a try!

Is Tight!

Without noticing that Wayne has grown up so fast, only when we tuck him into his wetsuit then we realise. This was what Wayne said to us when he was been tuck into his small size wetsuit, "Mummy, see, is too tight for me!" That day, we have left no choice but to cancel our trip to swimming pool.

We had shop for many places yet to find a suitable wetsuit for him. At last, we have to make a trip down to Tangling Mall by taxis, where I know there is a shop selling swim wears for adults and children, hopefully we can get one for him.

Not much choice left to be select, what I mean was the colour, not the size. We tried size5 on him, he claim that neck area too tight for him, then put him on size6, guess what, surprise us, size6 was the right size for him! Wow! Wayne, you are big boy now! Did you know that the sales girl told us size6 is for age 6 kids!

Here's the new wetsuit for Wayne!

Quick Update

I have so many things to blog and share, yet have no idea where to start! Hahaha... ... My laziness will be the root cause! Ya, don't blame! Embarrassed

Let's start on me first, then will update bit by bit, whatever comes in my mind. Here a quick update about me, I am in 32weeks, 3rd trimester now, my EDD will be end of next month, April2009. Currently, I am unemployed, not because of the economy crisis, I quit my job to have a good rest - to replenish my energy! Then here comes my little girl!

I will be going for my routine checkup at TMC (Thomson Medical Centre) next week and see what I can update.

My Very First Butter Cake

Here is one of my do-list that is to bake a cake. Search through the internet and found a most easy way and step to bake a butter cake. Yeah! Shop for all the ingredient, follow the instruction, then here you go - My very first butter cake that I have baked!



I am still a beginner and lots more to learn about baking. I am quite satisfied and here the final product, it looks more like a loaf of bread to me! Quite success, not too bad, only the outer layer little hard as when I take it out from the oven.

After cool on racks for 15 minutes, cut and taste it, texture still alright, smooth and milky but a little dry, most important is editable.



I am now addicted in baking, my next target will be Banana cake!