Me Time!

[lee_yl]

slmkhoo:

lee_yl:

ME TIME now. going to bake some muffins for tomorrow’s breakfast. Estimated time needed, 30mins.


The other day, DD1 insisted on baking a cake (with some help from me). That small cake needed one whole block of butter and 1 full cup of sugar. My goodness, cakes are so sinful!

The cake turned out pretty well, not too sweet. Can’t imagine how much sugar those cakes outside selling contain?

Yes, terribly full of sugar! For baking at home, I usually cut the sugar by at least a third to a half, and it works OK. My family is used to a lower level of sweetness and we avoid outside cakes because we find them too sweet. This is for more basic cakes where the texture isn't so sensitive to changes.

As it was my DD1’s 1st attempt to bake a cake, she insisted that we follow the recipe strictly, I am not allowed to cut sugar level etc.

For today’s muffins, I only used 3 tablespoon of sugar but I included chocolate chips. The other half of the batter, I added orange essence (not too healthy) plus cranberries.


Nice read about sugar and cake texture.
https://blog.kingarthurflour.com/2017/04/26/reduce-sugar-in-cake/

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[lee_yl]

MrsKiasu:

lee_yl:

ME TIME now. going to bake some muffins for tomorrow’s breakfast. Estimated time needed, 30mins.


The other day, DD1 insisted on baking a cake (with some help from me). That small cake needed one whole block of butter and 1 full cup of sugar. My goodness, cakes are so sinful!

The cake turned out pretty well, not too sweet. Can’t imagine how much sugar those cakes outside selling contain?

your dd must be very happy to get to bake her own cake with minimal help.. yalor, you see the ingredients then you worry. but never mind la if you dont eat much. I once told dd if buy outside we eat much lesser but if home cooked/baked, we will eat a lot more, so cannot afford to have same sugar/butter content. I still owe dd2 egg tarts but I am really tired..after this week then do.

Yes, very happy. She wanted to whip her own frosting but I said to do it another day. Cos I don’t know how to do it myself.

Now the buttermilk is sitting in the fridge. Not sure what to do with it. Any suggestions?

[MrsKiasu]

lee yl, I used to waste those creams…so try not buy things like whipping cream.


for buttermilk i will use substitute of vinegar/lemon juice with freshmilk…you can google for it. buttermilk can be used for chocolate cake.

[janet88]

son touched down early this morning. we picked him up from T1 and then went to Toa Payoh...local food


I don't usually eat chocolates...but Royce sakura is really good. it's S$11...slightly cheaper than Singapore.
didn't expect my son to be such a good shopper...but he really bought something nice for everyone.

[ammonite]

janet88:

son touched down early this morning. we picked him up from T1 and then went to Toa Payoh...local food


I don't usually eat chocolates...but Royce sakura is really good. it's S$11...slightly cheaper than Singapore.
didn't expect my son to be such a good shopper...but he really bought something nice for everyone.

:love: That's really sweet of him.

[lee_yl]

MrsKiasu:

lee yl, I used to waste those creams..so try not buy things like whipping cream.


for buttermilk i will use substitute of vinegar/lemon juice with freshmilk..you can google for it. buttermilk can be used for chocolate cake.

I just bought a can of ready made whipped cream leh, she kept asking me to make. The girls were so happy but we realized we don’t have any more cake/muffins to deco. The two are inside the kitchen playing with whipped cream now.
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Have been eating butter pound cake and muffins for 4 days straight so I think I will use the buttermilk for fluffy pancakes for this weekend breakfast.

[janet88]

out for almost the whole day :snooze:

this morning, met ID to see tiles. then followed up at his office to confirm design, go through list of things to do and make a deposit. super patient guy who has to deal with a customer who can't decide what she wants having an ID to plan colour scheme and give ideas lessens a big headache when there are so many things to plan...especially the little details.

[starlight1968sg]

Janet

Sounds exciting!

[janet88]

starlight1968sg:

Janet

Sounds exciting!

starlight,
I am excited to see how the ID will plan my place because I left it to him...it's difficult to express exactly what I am looking for...cosy but not dark, bright but not coffee shop kind of brightness. the only thing I decided is the tile.
these few months, I've been doing homework for wardrobes, study tables, built in cabinet, toilet, shoe and kitchen cabinet.
but an unexperienced person like me rather 死板.

[Funz]

DH keeps wanting to do piecemeal reno. I told him to wait a couple more years then we decide if we want to do a total reno if we decide to continue living in our current place.


1st he talk about changing ceiling fans when the fans are still working fine. Just that we feel that we do not need such big ceiling fans and there are many new designs out there these days.

Then he say wanna redo all the lightings. I think since we are older now we find that we need brighter lights!

Then he talk about repainting the whole place and wanna reconfigure our wardrobes and shoe cabinet.