GOOOOOD DAY BAKERS!

I made a dessert using the recipe I bookmarked very recently, Blueberry Crumb Cake, at FoodNetwork.com! I was simply craving for something sweet and fruity but I didn't want to play with strawberries because the supermarket does not have the reddest and prettiest strawberries at this time of the year. I will be waiting for summer to arrive in the North patiently :)

Anyhow, the Blueberry Crumb Cake I baked today was really fantastic. Soft, tender cake topped with browned crumbly streusel. Exactly what I was looking for in a g-r-e-a-t crumb cake! It is so delicious, I'm sure I have to make this again :)

Now, watch me make the most satisfying Blueberry Crumb Cake, step-by-step!!

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Hello Bakers, it's New Year! Happy 2010 and here wishing you guys a great year filled with fun and happiness ahead :)

As much as I'm enjoying every moment of my holidays, I still have to face the anxiety most 16-years-old are experiencing now: O'levels results will be releasing in another 10 days. Gosh..... There's this huge part of me really afraid that I've screwed my results, especially English. Because.. I wrote a crap essay that was incomplete and I usually depend on my essay to do moderately well for this subject. (By saying moderately well, I already mean a low B!)

But of course I don't intend to live in fear and worries every day till the very second I hold my results slip..! So, here I baked a cake for. ermm.. nobody? HAHAHA. It is cute anyway, right? It is certainly one of the funniest cake I've baked. Not that it is funny, but what I've done stupidly that are funny. Especially when my brother saw the mess I made.............

I was really embarrassed. and trying to control my laughters (which I failed. which WE both failed)..... I started slapping his arms - for being there to witness all my stupidity!! AND for laughing at me!

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The entire Decemeber had been one super enjoyable month with all the parties, work and my prom night going on (reaching home as late as 4am!). Great time with my dearly missed schoolmates, but I also managed to bake Cuppucino Cheesecake, Torta Caprese, Brownies, Apple Crumble & Jelly Cheesecake (5times!!! My all-time favourite). I love baking :D (didn't update because my DSLR was brokened)

This morning I made these Banana Muffins w chocolate chips. Awesome, I say! I love them because they are so homey and fragrantly sweet. In fact, Banana Muffins were memories of my first baking experience! I was only 14years old then. You might want to know more about it here. It is seriously funny and interesting :P

RIGHT. So.... Does muffins taste better using butter or oil? My hypothesis was that oil would be a better option and this morning, I divided the same muffin batter into two, half using butter and the other half using oil!

The results wasn't apparent so I could barely tell the difference! (the picture below: those w topped chocolate chips are baked using oil. those without topped chocolate chips are baked using butter) The 'oil' muffins are just really SLIGHTLY lighter than the 'butter' muffins. Besides this, they are equally moist and soft. Very tender and light! Not oily at all!! But if I have to make a decision, I think I'd still use oil in the future which I believe is only a personal preference :D

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me "I have an announcement to make. Don't put my hello kitty on the floor anymore. It will sleep with you from now onwards. Hug her because she's cold."

brother "LOL"

10minutes later, I saw my brother talking to my hello kitty,

"You see that ironing board there? That's your bed. This bed is mine. Okay, I'm bringing you over there now............. Sleep well, good night!"

HAHAHA, my brother is 19 by the way. He really played along well with me. We're pretty close... Even at our age now we can march through the parks! I mean MARCHING with out arms swing above our heads. LOL. Silly, yeah?

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My first attempt at blueberries pancakes for breakfast was supposed to be a good start for my day :( but I have to say I've learnt quite a few things from it. Earlier on, I put them nicely on plate and was happily photographing them. I was sooooo pleased with my softened butter LOL, but when I had my first bite I felt like laughing. It doesn't taste like pancakes at all because I made a few mistakes along the way and to cut the long story shorter, I'm just going to give you some tips so that you don't make the error as I did (read below).

I think one of my conclusion is that I'm glad this breakfast was made for myself - imagine my dad/brother eating it, I might be the joke of the day. Haha omg. Nevermind I'll do a better job next time, if I had buttermilk, I'd have done buttermilk pancakes instead.. (or you can recommend me your foolproof pancake recipe! Haha ^o^)

For the less rounded pancakes, I use a bear-shaped cookie cutter to cut them. HAHA, CUTEE!! (I like my butter here =P)

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