Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes

I am one person who doesn't really know how to express myself.  Therefore, I prefer to do it by making them something to say thank you for being my friend. Since I am on leave now, I decided to make some cupcakes for my friends when I visit them to catch up.  Its nothing much but that's how I know to say what I just don't know how to express out...you know.

Here's the cupcakes (made couple of batches) which I made for my friends.

I am so glad that my friends loved the cupcakes.

Thank you friends for being MY friends.

Butter Cookies...one way to keep your children happy and busy

My 2 kids have been asking for butter cookies and I was thinking what better way to make them then to ask my kids to make it themselves.  So, I made a batch of cookie dough and took out all the cookie cutters I can find.  My kids were all excited and off the went...

They spent more than an hour making those cookies while I was busy in the kitchen cooking lunch. My kids kept eating the baked cookies that we ended up with nothing much in the end...haha!

Here's a photo of some of the cookies which my kids made...

Aren't the cute?  Its made by my precious kids!!!

Chicken Pau

I have been wanting to make some pau for ages but I can't seem to find any pau flour.  I googled to see if I can just use plain flour and voila!... I can but the pau might turn out to be yellowish.  Heck man...yellowish is a small issue, what's important is I can taste my favourite pau once again.  So, I told my other half that I am going to do pau with plain flour and he was trying to discourage me as he thinks I might fail. I told him that no matter what, I am going to try..just once.

I took out my family recipe and made the pau.  Everything went well.  The last stage was to steam the pau.  My hubby told me that he will watch the pau and I go and play with my kids. Oh well...since he offered, I accepted it.  When I saw my hubby's face and seeing him munching the pau, I knew I succeeded..wohoo.

Here's a photo of my pau using plain flour

Now that I got it right, I am no longer afraid to use plain flour to do pau..wohoo!!!

Mee Paprik (Paprik Noodles)

Everyone who has been to Malaysia will have if not eaten, heard of the word Paprik.  Most of the time, you will find Nasi Paprik (Paprik Rice) in any Malay hawker stall. Besides the rice, these hawkers have also come out with another dish - Mee Paprik. From what I know, Pad means stir-fry in Thai and Prik means chilli /spicy in Thai. So, I guess Mee Paprik will translate to Stir-fried noodles in spicy sauce, maybe?

Oh well....it really doesn't matter how this dish came about. What matters is that this one-dish-meal is delicious.  My other half can't get enough of it.  Here's a photo of out Mee Paprik.

This is a 1-dish-meal which will always keep us warm in a cold day... delicious!!!

A Piece of Cake for Each Teacher to say Thank You!

My kids were saying that they would like to give their teachers something to say thank you and I thought that a piece of cake decorated nicely would be just awesome.  It might be a strange idea but I wanted to give this idea of mine a try.

So, I baked 2 mudcakes and cut it into equal sizes,  iced it and wrapped it with fondant. Then I decorated it with something simple.  My kids gave me their thumbs up and off we went delivering it to their teachers the next day.  Here's how it looked like.  I made 8 pieces in all.

I was really happy to hear from my kids that their teachers loved it.

Minecraft Cake and Cupcakes for my little Prince

As I mentioned in my earlier post, my little Prince wanted a Minecraft Theme...cake and cupcakes which he can bring to school to celebrate.  This Mommy doesn't even know what or who is Minecraft. So, what did I do? Googled it and found out its a Wii game and the whole thing looks like legoland with Creepers and Steve and other stuffs.

So, I asked my little Prince what he wanted and he wanted Creepers cupcakes and a Cake with Steve on top of it.  I have been really busy with work and stuff.  I tried my best to make this theme happen with some help from my kids...lazy me, right?

So..here's how the cupcakes and cake looked like.

Cake with the character Steve

Creepers Cupcakes

I was pretty nervous when I brought the cake and cupcakes to school as I was really hoping that if its not 100% alike, at least they will recognise the characters.  When I displayed the cake and cupcakes and heard the "ooo...its Steve, its the creepers"..."its Minecraft"...all the butterflies flew away.  When I looked at my little Prince and he gave me the biggest smile and hugged me..that's the best gift a Mother could ever want.