Another easy recipe! Banana muffin with chocolate chips

Today I made banana muffin with chocolate chips for our afternoon tea. This is a good way of making use of those bananas that are left on the table for a few days when no one seems to b eating them or when they are turning too ripe to eat.

When baking banana muffins i will reduce the sugar by half the amount required as banana itself is sweet enough and with the added chocolate chips, it'll taste just nice not too sweet. My hubby and i both ate 2 each and Paige had 1! Yum..yum... ;)

Sweet light scones

I did not send Paige to school today as she is having slight flu n cough and just recovered from fever so am keeping her away from school until next week. These few days we have been staying home and doing all activities i can think of to keep her occupied.

Usually she will be in school in the afternoon so we seldom have the chance to have afternoon tea together. So i take the opportunity to bake some sweet light scones to enjoy.

I would say it is one of the easy bakes to make and took me only 30mins to prepare and pop them into the oven. After a good 20mins and 10mins to cool, they are ready to eat! ;)

Double Chocolate Cookies

Today i was confined at home as my little darling is having fever for the 2nd day and today she had blocked nose too, poor thing. While she is taking her afternoon nap, i baked some double chocolate almond cookies for myself as i was craving for it!

Paige woke up and wanted my attention while i was halfway through preparing the ingredients. So she helped me sieved the dry ingredients and weighting the amount of chocolate that is to be melt in the microwave oven and stirred it evenly. After these few activities, she says she is tired and went to my room and watch her favourite tv programme- Charlie and Lola.

While my cookies are baking in the oven, we spent some time fixing a giant puzzle. After completing the puzzles, the timing is just nice for my cookies to be eaten. Yum..Yum...!

Happy Deepavali!

Paige is having Deepavali Party in school today and everyone are encourage to dress in indian costume/party clothes. I did not have time to go and specially buy her an indian costume so she wore her ballerina dress n shoes to school.

During her nap, i tried to whipped up some cupcake and decorated them with multi-coloured buttercream frosting and some decoratives. Voala... i did them within an hour!

Hope they have fun eating them during snack time!.

Happy Deepavali! ;)

Macaron are so sensitive!! Help!!!

I have been practising for the so called Big Day and I failed again and again and again!! After another 5 attempts I still couldn't get my macarons out nicely from the oven and am totally exhausted with disappointment! :(

I do not know what went wrong as I followed step-by-step closely from my last successful attempt. WIth the exact minutes and the different in speed the egg whites should be beaten, the number of times that i needed to do the folding and the number of minutes in the oven with the correct temperature. I do not know where and why it went wrong.

Looks like my girlfriend is going to disappointed but i think i have tried my best! If anyone know how to do it and would like to share your experiences, please drop me a line. ;)