I like big muffins and I cannot lie

If you're following me on Instagram, you'd probably have seen this photo and I'm not going to lie, I really do think at this rate I'm going with my newly found cake-related baking abilities my tiny oven can do, I will emerge as a muffin baking queen*.

I think I already am. Since it's a public holiday, I took the chance to bake some banana muffins and turned out not too bad though my mom's well guidance guided me into disaster overfilling 'em cups so I got overflowed muffins.

Whoop.

Regarding my journey to my new spankin' camera, I am now three months away which means by the time I am done with school this semester, rad photos and awesome photoshopping skills will emerge.

Meanwhile, I'm surviving on my iPhone - surprisingly still working well and attempting not to spend all my current savings away on here, and here. 

I shall be revealing some banana muffins love next post (with cheats included of course - I am too busy** to be measuring the amount of flour, baking soda/powder/whatnot, sugar altogether when I do it simply with a packet of ready mixed flour). 

Afterall, I am a busy Asian teenager. 

*Don't you just love my rad photoshopping skills?

**By busy I really just mean having movie/TV marathons all day and pretending I'm too busy for a social life but I just really don't want to have a social life.

Choc chip muffins

I am honestly suspicious of my existence on this Earth. I am the worst kind of girl around. 

I like painting my nails, baking and doing what a typical girl would do. 

But unfortunately I dress like a man - buying men's clothes because I don't have a bf to steal clothes from. 

I must've been very confused during puberty. 

After a long long hiatus of my mom's awesome chocolate chips muffins, I finally made them today and turns out she goes by the cheater way of using premix. Boo!!!

But it's delicious. And easy. 

Still in the midst of convincing my mom to get the built-in oven so I can bake more tasty things for friends and family. Mainly myself, included. If I had baked these with the hugeass oven, the outcome would be even prettier, and too bad I'm saving my kachings for my camera, else I'd be getting an oven.

Now my brothers are helping me too so....fingers crossed! 

Despite the weird burnt parts on some of them, they all turned out what it used to taste like so I'm very very satisfied. Who says you can't bake with a pathetic tiny toaster oven? Hmm? 

Ingredients:

Muffin mix - 500g (I got mine from Phoon Huat - Golden muffin mix)

Vegetable oil - 140g 

Milk - 112g

Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp (My mom says 2 tbsp is enough unless you want it really dark then add more)

4 eggs 

Chocolate chips 

Recipe:

- Just dump all into a bowl except for the chocolate chips, mix well (preferably with a mixer but you can always use manual labor. I salute you if you do)

- Pour the mix into cupcake liners in a muffin tray. 

- Sprinkle chocolate chips - there's no such thing as 'too much' chocolate chips.

- I honestly don't know how long it took because every batch took about 20 minutes and due to it being a toaster oven there's no preheating involved. Just bake it till it rises, looks brown and your skewer comes out clean, I guess. :| 

IT IS SO EASY!! It's very idiot proof, really. 

I'm going to try using other ingredients sometime. But first, let me figure a way to make some bailey's cupcakes. And get a proper oven.

P/S: I'm sorry if you're a foreign reader and you can't find muffin mix because I never knew such muffin mix existed until my mom shed light on me yesterday night. 

Grace likes to eat

Antoinette's

The Marmalade Pantry

Berries and Flap Jacks

Kith Cafe

I really really do. 

Just some random iPhone shot photos from my trips to the doctors to eat delicious food (that I'm too lazy to try to make them myself). I'm pretty surprised at my ability to afford to eat these frequently. But due to unforeseen circumstances I now have to pack lunch for school everyday so I can get my hands on my camera asap for maybe..the next two months :| 

Anyway, since I'll have to swear off my search for great cafes around the island, I'll just annoy you all with these and also torture myself with them. My return from HK has been almost two weeks and I have not begun to exercise so I honestly hope my packed lunch days will help me diet a little :p 

Well, now that I'm done with food (for a bit unless it's miraculously deliciously made by yours truly) then maybe I'll post some fashun stuff.  I like fashun. And food. I have the best of both worlds...

I think. 

Oh sweet Jesus I am also so in love with these. 

I shall find some time next week to bake some Bailey's cupcakes. Mmmm 

买东西，吃东西

If you remember, there used to be this advertisement playing on TV every other hour about Hong Kong that keeps going on '买东西，吃东西, 买东西，吃东西' and HK is literally about eating and shopping. No doubt about that. And I enjoy it very very muchos, my friends. 

Partly because I'm here with my friend and her family who are living in HK, I can really experience the authentic 'yum cha' like a real local here. Otherwise I'd just be eating at a 茶餐厅 every other day I guess. My first try on osmanthus cake (you'd always see them eat this in HK dramas) and whoa whoa let me just stop you right there.

It is so darn good.

I don't think I've eaten anything not delicious here. I also enjoy the fact that everywhere I go in this little country I can get to drink good milk tea. 

Teh-C rules. 

There's desserts stalls/stores here everywhere. Even in the cold, I'm still enjoying it so much. Though unfortunately we were bored of chinese food by day 5 so we ended up in western cafes and restaurants. And all weren't too bad. All I can say is we have eyes for good food. #noshame

The title just means 'buy stuff, eat stuff'. Drop me a comment if you want to know where all these delicious little dead things came from. 

P/S: Sorry if you're a non-chinese reader but as a Singaporean I can't help but using chinglish so ask Google for help. Xoxo

Almost famous

Pretentious ladies having delicious classy food.

Got a nice catch up session with my dear friend and we became ladies (although I was obviously dressed all masculine) having lunch and desserts at fanciful places. We had lunch at Dean & DeLuca first, ending up sharing a sandwich and a soup because we weren't too hungry and it was really good. (honestly, everything is delicious to me) I'd go back to try the other things on the menu. Their breads looks really good too. Sounds like a really good plan to me mmm. 

We had the mille feuille fraise (I like to pretend to know what I just ate, but of course I had to look up with my best friend, aka Google) which is some napoleon pastry, and......let's simply put it as a chocolate tart. I'm really bad at this. I should start jotting down what I ate from the menu shouldn't I? 

Ending on another note, my dear friend and I will be friends for 18 years in a month's time! #childhoodwin