Experimental day with "Baby muffins"

I had a blast baking today...I wanted to practice making different styles of muffins so I decided to go really tiny and cute since I’ve been only making the medium sized muffins from day one.

As normal, I prepared my ingredients, weight them and mixed them in my mixing bowl…Self rising flour, my precious buttercup, sugar, eggs, sodium bicarbonate & baking soda. I was planning to try out the new gadgets that I bought from Giant the other day - which I just wanted to have it but not use it...hahaha. I thought it was ‘cool’ to have a piping beg and a few gadgets to make those interesting icing deco ( I don’t even know what they are called) Well, once the dough was made, I decided to use my cute little paper cups for today’s trial…wah! everything was new!!! Hehehe…

I lined the cups on the baking tray and thank God I asked my mum where it was when she came down last weekend..I don't know why somewhere in between the baking process, I feel like I’m turning to be more and more like Monica from ‘Friends’ (for those who doesn't watch Friends, she is a chef). I never baked before this…only for the past 1 1/2 months, I’ve been so into baking and I have no idea how that interest came along. I remembered a few weeks ago, when I was in the kitchen and I was frustrated with some people from work who commented that the cakes I baked is not up to their standard…I sat in the kitchen thinking to myself if I wanted to continue baking…looking back at those happy faces when I walk into the office doors with my Tupperware and those who appreciated my baking I then realized that “Hey, a month back, I knew jack about baking but now…I can bake and I didn’t have to impress anyone about what I can bake and what I can’t! I came out with a theory then…I would only bake for those who appreciated what I do. “If you don’t like it, it’s your problem” So I decided to continue to bake…BUT it’s only for a limited number of people who I know for a fact who appreciates it.

Well, back to my daily baking frenzy story!

I took out my new tools and filled it with my chocolate ammo…and I started shooting each and every paper cup with that chocolate dough that I’ve mixed up…everytime I bake, I have this bad habit of eating the dough even before it is baked! Oh, it taste really nice…as I took my third slurp of that raw dough, I heard my mum’s voice in my head “You better stop eating it raw, you might get a tummy ache!” so I stopped…when it comes to baking, the only experience I had was during Christmas, mum would be stuck in the kitchen for days – baking, baking and baking. From her famous pineapple tarts to her uh-la-la fried banana chips…it was all so good! I should have paid more attention to her…now, I can’t remember much of what she taught me and I have to call her once in a while to find out what I’m doing wrong and why the cake did not rise or how come the cake doesn’t look like a cake in the first place? Hahaha…been there so many times…and you know what?? The best thing is, I don’t even know what I did wrong or even, what I did right!!! It’s just the passion, or this baking ghost that came by one day and planted this seed in me! So you guys, every time I come with my Tupperware, just say thanks and don’t ask me why all of a sudden, I’m baking everyday ok! When I get an answer, I'll let you guys know...

Well, for today at least I know I put some smiles on everyone's faces when I walked by with my Tupperware...as everyone said it was cute...just as what I wanted it to be :)

Check out how the dough looked like in their respective cups

Some chocolate rice on this ones

In the process or being yummy baby muffins (in my thrustable electric oven)

On the cooling station

So colorful!

Once it was baked, I decided to put some icing on it and I've never done this before. It was interesting but I think the icing was too hard and I nearly broke my new piping gadget :( must have done something wrong with the icing...but so what? It taste good and that's important!

First time for everything! Here I go...

The final outcome. With a touch of white chocolate chip.

I was playing with the different caps the piping gadget had and this came out looking like a rose.

Overall, today has been a lot of experimental process from the baby cups to the icing and the final outcome. Somehow since it’s my first time using those small cups, I think I left it in the oven too long and it came out rather dry but on top of that, I know for a fact that the next batch of baby muffins would be superb!