Mari Memasak!

Zahra had a big moan the other day after school that she did not get into the cooking After school activity class( yes I am guilty I sent in the form too late!!). So I promised her we can do cooking at home and I even promised that she could crack the eggs and do the mixing etc!!( God I must have been delirious that day!)

So I decided to do chocolate muffins as they are so easy to do and does not require much mixing so it's ideal for the kids. They had a ball putting the mix into the trays as you can see from thier happy picctures! I think a lot of the mix ended up in their mouths too! So I left the house to pick up Fatin when the muffins went in the oven and by the time I got home all the muffins were gone! All claimed by Zahra and Iman! I had to literally beg her for the finished product as she claimed all rights to them and only she could decide who could have one! Iman took home or had distributed all her muffins. They obviously have no entrepreunerial spirit yet if not they would have sat outside the house selling these cakes to everybody( Fatin and Hazim had a habit of doing this before every holiday to get extra money!) Anyway the muffins were quite yummy and Zahra even took some to school the next day to show off her culinary skills!

Today Maria and I took the cooking thing a step further and we did small fairy cakes and chocolate cupcakes for Iman's bake sale at school tomorrow. This time it was a bit more complicated as the recipes required the mix to be beaten using a cake mixer. Of course everybody wanted a go holding the machine! Even Jack was involved! Still they all turned out great and we experimented using left over icing that I had in the fridge. My sister said Ka Wiz would only faint looking at the disastrous designs!! Never mind pokok nya we had a fun afternoon doing them and no doubt they will be hit at the bake off sale tomorrow. For photos go to Maria's blog as mine turned out blurry!

Happy Birthday Iman

It was Iman's birthday 2 days ago and yesterday she had a really huge birthday party. Well done Miah and Donncha for pulling it off..there were like 40 kids running in and around their house and all went well, all the games were played and best of all everybody got to hit the pinata. No doubt Miah will have full coverage of it on her blog. As always I was in charge of the cake and for the last few days I really didn't think it would work out but I tried and this was the best I could do considering the excruciating pain I have been getting from my bad back!

Iman's dad bought chocolate all the from Geneva to make his daughter's rich chocolate cake but I ended up using my own chocolate out fear that the chocolate that he bought was too bitter! I'll make you another one using the chocs you bought Donncha! Still everybody recognized the drawing as Dora although some compliments were better than others. The important thing was the cake was really yummy and most kids had 2 helpings which is a good sign! Happy birthday Iman!

Happy New Year!

Greetings people!! Or have you all given up on me ever blogging again!! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! and to all fellow muslims Selamat Menyambut Tahun Baru Hijrah!! I finally got off my lazy x@#*! and decided I must post something new on my blog as everybody else seems to have put lots of interesting photos and posts about their new year celebrations!

New resolution maybe, but for this year I have decided I will really get down to looking for more inspirations on cake decorations and perhaps go down to KL and do the Wilton decoration class... we'll see how this progresses. We have that flat in Datuk Keramat unutilised so maybe this year most holidays will be in Malaysia! Who knows maybe I will get to meet up with other fellow bloggers who so inspire me especially Ka Wiz! I didn't realize she posted a comment in my blog until today you can tell I am so baru at all this. Thanks Ka Whiz for dropping in and thanks for your advice on the cupcakes , will try it out probably this weekend. I also didn't realise another fellow blogger from Brunei, Sas who does not really know who I am, dropped me a note too. thanks Sas. Thanks also for linking me!!! So honoured lah tepaksa tah slalu-slalu me update blog ku ni! Your babu knows who I am just ask her ok! I love your blog your frank comments always make me laugh and that lamb you cooked for your friends in Melbourne looks really nyaman! Nanti minta recipe nya ah!

Well my son Haji Mohamed Fahamin finally came back from his month long Haj experience, tall, lean and arabic looking!! We were all happy to see him along with my parents who were full of praises for Amin! With his return the family is whole again and my number 1 critic and kitchen helper is back full of ideas as usual on how to cook things etc!! Oh and his mess is back too!

Well over the holiday period I did do a couple of cakes but recently I did these gems - mini pavlova and they were really light and yummy!! Normally I would do a huge pavlova with 9 egg whites (like the one in the other photo), but this time Mum had passed to me some whipped cream to use up quickly as it was near the expiration date so I didn't want to risk not having enough cream. So I did 6 egg whites and made 30 mini pavlovas. Unfortunately I ran out of strawberries and kiwi fruit so left about 7 pieces without any fruits but just cream... also kena whallop by Amin! You would think he would put on weight from eating all this sweet stuff but nooo! Anyway Pavlova recipes are all over the place and some call for the use of vinegar or lemon juice. Either is fine. But if you guys cannot be hassled to whip this up or give them a go let me know and I can do them for you at $1.50 each!! The big pavlova I sell for for $50.00 each!! Cheh! Tahun baru business mesti lah!!

Pavlova:

6 egg whites

12 oz caster sugar

2 teaspoons vinegar mixed 2 teaspoons cornflour

Fruits to garnish

whipped cream

Method:

Heat oven to 140C. Whip egg whites till soft peaks then add sugar 1 tabelspoon at a time. Laslty add cornflour mixed vinegar. Pipe or dollop onto well greased tray accordingly. Put into oven for 1 hour. Do not open door at any time or increase heat. Once done, leave to cool completely, then decorate accordingly!