Cookies & Cream Cupcakes! (: With cookies & cream frosting to boot.
Yes, more baking, I can see everyone shaking their heads at me already. Well, feast your eyes! :D
(Bad photos this time, because of the lack of natural lighting.)
I baked these from 8 to 11 pm, because time just flew by when I was having fun with the decorating. I've never actually used frosting before, because I think it's unnecessary calories - but this time, I really wanted to try, so I cut down on the sugar in the cupcake and used a nice thin layer of frosting on all the cupcakes. Just the right sugary-ness. (:
Some ended up looking rather horrible but I got better as I worked my way through the 35 cupcakes, and my latest aspiration is to pack my bag, fly off to Paris, and work in a patisserie and help them decorate their desserts. Yay! Hahaha. (:
Oh yeah, the insides are full of cookie goodness as well (:
And because 35 cupcakes are way too many for a family of 5, I carted some off to give to my friends ... and even one for my dance laoshi (: Because we had a performance that day. Which I shall talk about another time haha. And of course, I saved a few for the one who gets to sample ALL my bakies!
Forcing Wanjun and Xinqin (who had taken a bite of her cupcake!) to pose with their cupcakes, made by the beaming girl on the right. Hahaha. (Just after the performance, to explain the gelled back hair, the gold eyeshadow and the rest of the makeup.)
Baking makes me hehehehappy (:
Baking makes me fffffat as well ):
Haha and I shall be off to bake for the girlygirls whom I'm meeting later in the day, but having said that, if I turn up empty handed it means my baking experiment failed. Hehee.
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"God has dealt to each one a measure of faith." Romans 12:3
It's always on hindsight when I receive good news that I wonder why I had to stress myself out so much instead of having faith and leaning on His strength instead of mine. He's never failed to pour out His undeserved and unearned favour on little me and even when I think I'm stuck in a rut, everything turns out to be smooth sailing in the end.
I think I never really dare to dream big and would rather stress out and worry because when you dream big, you either climb real high or fall real low. I hardly even dare to acknowledge to myself the extent of my longing for something. (Perfect grades, accomplishing this or that, etc.) Because I'm scared I won't get it.
Have faith, Evelyn.
And now I'm pretty certain of my future, the next few years and beyond are going to be simple awesome because my Daddy in heaven has paved the way for me. I know where to go and what to do and my future is no longer a murky mess and it feels good, it really does.
My Daddy in heaven rocks my socks. (: