Friday, August 21, 2009

Party Day

Thank you very much for your get well wishes. XY has recovered and is able to go party already. :-) Her fever didn't come back since my last update but we still kept her at home yesterday, just to be sure. Her kindy is having a party today, a joint celebration for children born in the month of July, August and September. And also to celebrate National Day.

~ time to party! ~

There are no lessons and they can wear party clothes. As she's one of the birthday kids, we're supposed to contribute some food. So I made muffins (what else? hahaha). This time, I tried strawberry muffins. I baked them yesterday afternoon. When I took out all the ingredients, I realised I didn't have enough corn oil. *ooops!* Checked with SIL and she only has grapeseed oil and peanut oil. I googled and found out that grapeseed oil can be used for baking. So I mixed corn oil with grapeseed oil. :p Luckily they didn't taste weird. I reduced almost half of the oil required as I didn't want to make them too oily for the kids. I used a bigger cup this round. The outcome wasn't too satisfactory. They don't look nice, all cracked up and uneven. They tasted alright but not as fluffy and dry as my previous bakes.

~ some of the nicer-looking ones ~

It was a big hit with didi but jie jie didn't even finish one. Didi kept asking for more but I didn't have extra to give him. 1kg of pre-mix flour made 24 muffins and I allocated 20 for the party. I was worried XY would come back with the container barely touched. I'm so relieved she only brought back 2. Looks like didi's in luck! hehehe

16 comments:

Cynful Pleasure said...

yum yum.. I like muffins too.. :)

Rose world said...

Nice muffins!! And happy birthday to your girl!!

michelle@mybabybay said...

Good to hear that she is well again and partying.

Merryn said...

Happy birthday jie jie.. :)

Mummy Gwen said...

Wah..can go partying already...haha. XY looks so sweet in that lovely dress. Yummy cupcakes. :) Your last sentence really cracks me up..haha..

andrewjune said...

what a lovely girl...mummy did a great job of "grooming" XY there :-)

so so so glad she has recovered and back on her feet already!

Dora said...

Glad that XY is fully recovered & she looks so pretty with the dress & ur strawberry muffins r nice too!

Nina @ BabyBoon said...

oh she looks sooo pretty. thank god she's now well!

Anggie's Journal said...

i miss baking ... :P

MeRy said...

Glad that XY is recovering and can go party ...

jacss said...

good that's she's recovering, keep up boosting her :)
looking at her...she really don't look like a kindy goer anymore, so big girl, pretty & sweet too just like...ahem, u know who la :D
looks like jie-jie & di-di has different taste ehh.
yalah, luckily yr muffin can sell...else, surely next time no more baking, hahaha

Sarah's Daddy and Mommy said...

XY really look very tall in the pic. I kinda forgot that she is still a 6 yrs old girl.
I like her dress very much. Very trendy look!

The muffin looked good mah!

Health Freak Mommy said...

Your girl looks tall - tall, slim, fair and sweet! Those muffins look good to me. I can't even bake.

Annie Q said...

Glad to hear your girl has recovered and can go for PARTY!! Yuhoo!!

Nice muffins! Yummy!

JK said...

She was sick?? You must be relieved now seeing her recovered and looking lovely for the party. Hey, your muffin looks good! You got to bring one for me the next time we meet.

yatie sawanila said...

The muffin look nice....suddenly, I want to eat muffin...