24 November, 2007

*489 - back to baking

My first time baking in Cornell: white chocolate cupcakes with white and blue vanilla frosting (: Yuanhong/Pebbly helped with icing some. He really has some talent, I was so impressed!

Unfortunately, I still don't have a camera, so we had to settle for crappy webcam pictures.



1. Pebbly and I with the cupcakes!
2. The bunny that I'm really proud of
3. It's snowing!
4. Pebbly the engineer (spot: pencil behind ear) and Evelyn the pig


Significance of #3: I was meaning to bake cupcakes to give to my friends in my Snow class on Wednesday - the last Snow class!! So, I decided to test my cupcake baking/icing techniques out just in case they had left me.

The icing was kind of weird, probably because I bought a slab of not-butter that claimed "I am not butter". It sort of crystallized and tasted weird. I thought it would be a healthier alternative, but I guess I'm sticking to real butter from now :P

Baking for the first time is expensive ... you can imagine how much money I had to spend on buying everything, from an entire tin of salt (for that pinch that I used in the cupcakes) to electric beaters to measuring cups and spoons. Good investment though. I missed baking (:

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Couple of (terribly) overdue replies:

Sarah I miss you too!! Of course I will <3
Bernice Aww, eco-friendly cupcakes, just as I baked some (: Hehe! How's life?
Banana <3 <3 <3 <3
Maddy <3 <3 <3 <3 (By the way, the family's moving in a week or so, I think.)
Emerson Thanks, God is great (:
Passerby The camera I used was a Lumix. It was a sexy camera. Haha! Thanks (:
Jingwen OEI I MISS YOU what have you been up to?