The Christmas holiday was spent baking with ZL...as she embark on baking her 2 most-wanted pastry: Pancake Cupcake & Cinammon roll!Both of which the first time we're making it...

While im rather proficient whipping up simple meals, baking is very much an unchartered grd for me until recently...well at least im beginning to know what to do now, so not tht bad..haha

The pancake cupcake is a maple & cinammon flavoured cupcake...the steps are quite direct i wld say, at least there's no need to knead the dough and stuff...juz mix everything can le..haha...turns out not bad...haha, not forgetting, zl added her signature "thousand and hundreds"...haha.and its small enough for me to eat a few at 1 go...

The cinammon roll was much tougher...as our mixer cldnt really mix the dough well, end up i had to do manually....shag. It was fun tho, looking at the processing of raising the dough....very different from those we've done b4....but it didnt came thru, as the we took it out of the oven to realise it tasted bland and too hard for a bread....it was quite bad.

Nvtheless still ate 2 of it...well, its abit lyk scones...having it with maple syrup was not bad too..haha. We're not tht sure what went wrong..certainly the incomplete recipe we got from Ikea during 1 of our trips was to blame!! We also realise the yeast we put was much more than other recipes online...

So much it caused ZL to have a stomach upset..vormit some more...poor thing. Tho we failed...its alright, it was meant to be a try-out anyway...we'll try again ya!!:)Get well soon dear...