Muffins

Its been a long time since i last baked smthing
Yesterday i tried to bake some blueberry muffins, i must say blueberries are firstly hard to find in singapore n they are damn expensive, 1 can of blueberries cost 9 bucks.
Went online to search for some blueberry muffin recipe, found 1 n started work.
The first batch which i made yesterday, i must say it totally doesn't look like muffins. Instead its like some cookie instead. Not enuf butter i suppose and i took the wrong measurements. Using some universal measurement conversion i found on fri, i know that 1 cup = 229g. BUT very impt, this mearsurement DOES NOT apply for all ingredients.
Different ingredients have different weight for 1 cup.
Measurements as follows:-
Flour => 1 cup = 128g
Sugar => 1 cup = 201g
Milk => 1 cup = 267g
Butter => 1 cup = 250g = 2 sticks

AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, always sieve the flour before you use them, if not you'll end up with some white spots in ur cake coz the flour coagulate together n its hard to get them to disperse in the mixture.

There's always the problem of mixing the butter with milk, i've found a certain method to do them the easier way, if not there's no way to get butter to mix well with milk. A solution i found out was to immerse the bowl you are using in a water bath hence the butter wouldn't get too melted until u see the oil layer and another is to do short time microwaving of the butter milk mixture.



Anyway forget about my failed batch yesterday, i changed the recipe n here's it.
225g flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
75g butter
100g sugar
1 egg
200g milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup blueberries (amt up to you)

1. Preheat oven to 200deg
2. In large bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt.
3. In 2nd bowl, squish butter and sugar until mixed. Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla until smooth, pour into first bowl.
4. Stir until mixed.
5. Fold blueberries into the batter.
6. Grease muffin tray, fill about 3/4 full, bake for around 25mins

Makes 12 Muffins.

After Exams

Well... i must say i have been spending alot ever since my last paper ended. I mean its only been less than a week, come to think of it... i don't really remember what stuff did i spend on. Let's see, there was a kbox session after my last paper last tuesday, i think i went out on wednesday but the only thing i remember was the badminton session on wed nite. Thursday I was out with justin n sean, forgot what was the occasion that even made j wong walk out of the house. oh oh, i know, we went to watch Beowulf. It wasn't really a fantastic show i must say, the storyline was just average and the action scenes were sooo 'god of war' type, lol, j wong's favourite. OH, i remember what i did on wednesday, i went to cut my hair and then send my laptop for repairs. Zzz, should have just send my laptop to sim lim, now then i realise, since its already out of warranty, might as well sim lim it; its like so much faster n cheaper. Ok, continuing on thurs after Beowulf, j wong went back to parkway to get guitar heroes 3 - paid 159 bucks for it. Hence you can see how much he would pay just to have something to play since his com will be down for 3 mths, lol. Since his com was down and so was mine, we played lan for the evening, haha, some no life entertainment. Wasted our lives away at the lanshop till 11 where we met zic, zx, rayner, xiong n bingde for supper. Supper destination was of my choice which is swee choon along jalan besar road there where it sells tim sum at nite. Not a bad place i must say.
Friday i was saving money by staying at home. Sat went to meet up with my old jc classmates - dora, jx, yl, ys, hj. Long time since everybody could make it for a meetup, hence I am a bad organiser since everytime i plan, there will always be someone who cant make it. Jx does so much of a better job than me man, lol. So next time i don't organise le, =P. At nite i was out with zx, zic n sean at MOS, since it was like free entry for students. We were there at ard 930 n there was a long queue already lo, zzz, then again, the Q was kinda fast though, there was this couple in front of us who was trying to fake their age, the gal took her sis's i/c and the guy... also had someone else's i/c. Both were like rehearsing the particulars on the i/cs, it was damn funny, then again, reminds us that well.. we are actually quite old already, haha. As expected, MOS was boring until 1130 where the real crowd came in, can't believe we actually stoned inside for like 2hrs. Oh, zic n zx actually agreed on getting jugs, lol, anyway it was a 1 for 1 jugs nite. Stayed until 1230 n we went to watch the golden compass. Wah, me n zic were like damn shag lo, sleeping at pastamania in cine while zx n sean grabbed something to eat. Zic.. dunoe wad happened to him, puked in the toilet, lol. Ok, think this ends my spend a lot of money week. Think i'll juz stay at home the next week n save money bah, lol