recipe time!

Bonded with friends from church over these cupcakes (and the yummies they also brought) last night :) It's one of my successful batches so I'm sharing the recipe with you! Disclaimer: recipe's not mine. I also just copied it from a recipe book and saved it in my almost-10-year-old recipe notebook :P

Banana Nut Cupcakes

1 1/4 all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 bananas
1/2 cup nuts (as of now, kids won't eat anything with nuts)
5 tablespoons milk

1. Preheat oven to 375°F Thoroughly grease muffin pans or use paper liners.
2. Sift the flour and baking powder into small bowl. Set aside.
3. With an electric mixer, cream the butter or margarine and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and beat until fluffy.  Mix in the bananas. Add nuts.
4. With the mixer on low speed, beat in the flour mixture alternately with milk. Spoon into pan.  Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.
5.  Leave to cool in the pans for 10 minutes.

Try it! :)

cake for lolamamang!

For Lolamamang's birthday, I made a half recipe of my orange chiffon cake with butter cream icing! Too bad BB was at work so pardon me for the not-so-fab photos. I used my cam and I think I didn't adjust the settings too well (was in a hurry yesterday for Word Celebration). But anyways, we had fun (and extra calories) with the cake. I finished 2 slices and felt guilty after hehehe.

Here's your cake Mader dear! I hope you had a blast yesterday.... wish we were there to celebrate with you. We miss you all!

victorious weekend!

... bacause Pacman won! yehey! It was really fun watching with BB, Kuya Ed and Din. What an awesome fight that was! I was rolling on floor laughing at BB's (literally) cold feet! lol! I miss my father... i just love watching boxing with him coz his excitement is too contagious!!!



...because eventhough I missed one scrapbooking event, a friend came to visit! Min, thank you for the brief but quality bonding with our kids. It's my turn next time :)

... because my 3 heroes, slept at one time on a Sunday afternoon which gave me time to do an experiment: leaftover cereal (that I've been setting aside, coz the bugoys don't like it. I don't like it either), 2 eggs, flour, sugar, vanilla, butter... bake for 2 mins) EASY! :)


... because the experiment was successful! yehey! BB even asked me to spare some for his baon today :)

... because we heard mass, and I loved the choir's oh so lively music.

... because after a great weekend, I am now ready to face this week's challenges... and VICTORIES! Thank You Lord for everything. May YOUR NAME BE GLORIFIED!!!