India Trip

I forgot to share pictures and my experience in India. It was fantastic! I think I would seriously consider going again in the future! Here's a few picutres to summarize my experience:

Of course, no trip to India is ever complete without a picutre in front of the Taj Mahal :]

Having to experience 'waiting' in line for 4 hours to enter the Golden Temple, it's definitly not like the boxing day line ups I've ever experienced!

One of the loveliest places I've ever visited: Shimla

And my favorite picture from the trip :] and I took this one all by myself!

Delayed Update

Wow, I really haven't updated this blog in a long time, in fact I nearly forgot the password but it doesn't mean I haven't baked for a year! I don't have as much to show you but they're all the pictures I could gather.

My Father's Day cake that I made for my dad :] I tried to make it similar to the cakes in Asian Bakeries since my parents generally don't like eating so much cream. I was the first time I made icing with double cream :] Originally I wanted to make a Swiss roll but it met an unfortunate event, well more like I had no clue how to roll it and it just ended up as layers of cake folded on top of each other -________-" Any who...here's the picture of my Father's Day cake [dad still kept my father's day sign! ]

A picture without the sign:

During my second Co-op term, I was actually in Ottawa and since I had A LOT of time on my hand, I did quite a bit of baking and decorating, take a look :] (all decorations were made using fondant)

I wish I took some pictures of the mittens that I made for my family while I was on Co-op, they were so warm and made using alpaca wool :] Okay, back to studying, I'll try to update more frequently but I definitely won't be able to do much baking this term since the oven doesn't work but I've been considering steaming and tofu ;]

Holiday Recap

I have to admit, the holidays went by extremely fast but I always find time to bake, even if exams are going on =P I made chocolate cupcakes and even decorated them when I really should have studied for my chem final (I guess that's why I got such a crappy mark). However, they were delicious, here's the recipe and pictures of my cupcakes:

Chocolate Cupcakes:
adapted from Joy of Baking

1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup boiling water
1 1/3 cup all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, rm temp.
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup walnut, chopped

1. Stir boiling water and cocoa powder in small bowl, let it cool to rm
temp.
2. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in separate bowl.
3. In another bowl, whisk butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg
one at a time and vanilla extract.
4. Add flour mixture to butter mixture, then add cocoa mixture.
5. Bake for 16-20 minutes at 375 F.

Right after my exam, I started packing to move out of my suite and lucky for me I had Alana and Jenn to help me. I never realized how much stuff I brought and accumulated over the past four months. My car was really packed, I barely had room to sit :]

Then I headed to Ottawa to visit Janet :] Ottawa was EXTREMELY cold!!! but I really enjoyed my visit and I got the opportunity to try butter chicken at an Indian restaurant (which I was probably under dressed for :P). A few days later my parents came to pick me and my sister up to head to Montreal to visit our grandma!!! Grandma was really happy that we visited and we played one of Ray and Norm's board games that they recently got, that was defiantly and blast :] they have the coolest games!

Finally after Montreal, we headed back to Ottawa to pick up my sister's stuff and headed home. That was probably the most painful car ride ever, I couldn't even see anyone except for my dad who was right in front of me and throughout the car ride back her belongings were falling on me from everywhere =[ but my sister was worst off that me

Back home I met up with my friends. I headed over to Komal's first to give her a cupcake and just talk to her since I won't be able to for a while b/c she's heading back to school. Then I went to Host for lunch. The food there was really delicious and it was definitely nice to see everyone!!! :] and then I headed over to Alana's to see her and Spencer :] I'm really going to miss hanging out with her and Jenn during the school term :[

Oh btw, I wanted to share with you pictures of the magnets I made for Alana, I made some other ones before but forgot to take picture and already gave them away but they have a nice home :]

I have some very exciting news!!! =] as you may have notice I've been eating Indian food recently, well for the next three months, I will probably be eating Indian food everyday!!! I'm going to India for my work term, just got accepted today!!! So excited, I'm slightly worried but I'm also too excited and thankful to be worrying too much. This is such an amazing opportunity!!! and I was getting worried about finding a job, I'm really thankful :]

and starting tomorrow, I think I will be going to YMCA to exercise b/c ever since I came home I've been eating like no tomorrow :[ too much yummy food at home and no one to stop me

Happy Halloween! =]

Yes, I should really be studying but it's halloween and everyone's doing something so... I think I should be allowed to bake =]. Anyways I tried making Spooky Ghost Meringues and brownies because I was afraid that my eggs would expire soon =P. Here's some pictures!!! =D

TEES!!!

I just submitted both my designs and hopefully they will be up for voting soon, if you'd like to vote for them here's the links: Bearcake and NINJAS!!!, thankss!! =D

Procrastination!!!

So I have officially quit Wal-Mart (about a week and a half ago) because I needed more time to prep for university but knowing me, I didn't do anything but procrastinate -____-". For the past week I was knitting, well attempting to, so far I have one mitten but it's pretty bad, the thumb space can fit about two thumbs and the hand space is really tight BUT I used recycled yarn =D which is always exciting and awesome! Then after my failed attempt at knitting a came across this really neat site: click here their shirt designs are really original! So I got all excited and decide to participate and design my own shirt but definitely does not look as good as the printed ones, below is a picture of it. I find that it's kind of empty or chunky so if you want to critique it and help me out =D click here.I'm working on another one right now, I'll post it up when I'm done =3. But I really need to prep =[ so after this design I don't think I'll have time to do anymore because I need to hit the books =[ some summer... and I guess I'll have to change my occupation to starving unemployed student...

Up!

I went to watch Up with Janet and Belle today and the movie was really awesome but when I came out of the theater I was kind of o_O mainly because I was really tired since my aunt arrived from Montreal yesterday at around 1am and I couldn't sleep till 3. -__-" I tried sleeping just now but wasn't able to so hopefully tonight I will be extremely tired and just die when I reach my bed : ) Since I've got time to kill, I will post up pictures of what I did yesterday at work while I'm doing some uni stuff (which I'm dreading!!!). As you will see, I had a lot of free time yesterday and worked really slowly but I managed to run out of time to take a break and the lead manager wasn't very happy so I told her I will make sure I take my breaks next time ;) hehehe ( it's not that I don't like taking my breaks, it's just really pointless to go for 15 or 30 minute breaks because by the time I reach there and back, that's pretty much my break so anyways, PICTURES!!! =] ).

An elephant and a mammoth ^^, I was thinking of Ice Age hehehehe

I was making the bee and my friend thought I was making a crab so after the bee I decided to make a crab and we had a whole conversation to determine whether Mr. Krabs was a crab or lobster even though his name gives it away =]

Since I've been making beaded chickens, chickens have been in my head for a while so I made a chicken cake :3

Preparing for Canada Day. Since most people think of snow and igloos when they think of Canada, why not give them a polar bears cake.