S'more Brownie Pie

It was the 24th and I was, as usual, browsing to one of the blogs that I follow when it comes to baking. I saw this super yummy picture of a pie and just by looking at it I know that I must try to do it. I read thru the whole recipe and it seems quite easy and I've decided right there and then that Im gonna do it tonight and I did!

Full Recipe and detailed instruction on: S'more Brownie Pie entry

It's right about 4 steps to bake and another step to wait and drool:

1. Make the crust and set aside.

2. Make the brownie batter, all thru microwave heating and manual whisking.

Melted butter, cocoa, sugar and salt in microwave. Let it cool for a while before mixing in other ingredients.

Once the cocoa mixture is cool, stir in the vanilla and then the eggs one at a time. Then whisk in the flour.

3. Bake the brownie pie for 28minutes at 165C/325F.

4. Remove the brownie pie from the oven and add in the mallows (I got overly excited and put more mallows that what is stated in the recipe).

5. Bake for 3more minutes or until the marshmallows are toasted. Let it cool completely (which is quite hard to do) and enjoy!

Gooey S'more, fudgy brownie and just the right taste of crust all rolled into one. Imagine that!

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Banana Nut Jumbo Muffin

There has been a request for me to make a Jumbo, American Size muffin for quite some time now and I was on the lookout of what recipe should I try.
Also, I have some ripe bananas in the fridge waiting to be baked and then, like an answered prayer, Sally, one of the food bloggers that I really followed (yes, on bloglovin and Instagram!) posted her Master Muffin Mix and it included the Banana Nut and Very Berry Muffin recipes. How cool is that? It's like she read my mind or heard my prayers. LOL!
And of course, I did not waste my time and did it last Saturday.

So, here's my Banana Nut Jumbo and mini Muffin:

Full details and Recipe here.

It's quite easy.
1. Pre-heat the oven.
2. Mix the dry ingredients.

3. Mix the wet ingredients.

4. Mix the wet and dry mixture and careful not to over-mix.

5. Fold in the nuts (I used walnut here).

6. Prepare the streusel (I put in some chocolate chips, 1/4 cup only)

7. Fill the muffin tins up to the top. (I used the silicon muffin molds, Jumbo and mini)
Sprinkle with some struesel.

8. Bake and wait.

Mini-muffin:

Jumbo Muffin:

10. Enjoy!!!

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#100HappyDays - Challenge Accepted!

The pictures in my FB timeline with hashtag #100happydays really got me curious that i googled it. From the hashtag, it was quite obvious that it's about being happy but I was curious who started it and what's in it and so on and so forth. My google search led me to the website 100happydays.com. There it explained the goal: recognize the things simple or grand, that makes you happy everyday. Nowadays, almost all people are too busy with their life, working, running to and from their chores, beating the traffic that we couldn't stop for a while to appreciate the small things that makes as happy. The challenge: Quite simple, post pictures of what made you happy everyday for 100 days.

What you basically need to do first is to register to the website with some of your info and specify the platform where you will post your pictures. You can do it via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Email. Specify your starting date then starting posting your pictures using the hashtag #100happydays.

As simple as it is, surprisingly, 71% of the people could not finish the challenge.

When I search the hashtag on my Instagram, I was surprised to see that there's over a million picture posted ... WOW!!! Plus more pictures with some various hashtags related to that.

It got me excited and even invited my friends to join me in this challenge. Actually, the part where it says that you'll get a small book with all your 100happydays pictures that really got into me :)
And so last saturday, I registered to the website:

And posted my Day1 picture, yesterday.

Let's see how far I can go. It already made me think of a lot of what-ifs that would hinder me from finishing this challenge but I'm more excited to finish it ... so, Good luck to me!!!

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Skinny Double Chocolate Chip Muffin

I am such a fan of Sally'S Baking Addiction Blog. I follow Sally on Twitter, Instagram and Bloglovin :) All her recipes look sinfully delicious and then the word Skinny caught my eyes. Skinny = Healthy, right? Who doesn't want to eat a delicious baked goodies without the guilt? Of course, I browsed thru all her skinny series and contemplate on which one to do first. Since I love blueberry muffin so much, it's my no. 1 must try. You can see the outcome here but it didn't come out as perfectly as it should be, probably because I over-mixed the batter, so take note of that.

And of course, who could ever resist a double chocolate chip muffin? especially if it's skinny?
Hmmmm.... I kinda failed a bit on the skinny banana blueberry muffin so Im kinda hesitant to do the skinny double chocolate chip but then one night, I had muster enough courage to gave it a try (looking at the pictures will give you enough motivation) and it was a hit!!!

It's chocolate heaven, fudgy, moist and you wouldn't even think that it's the healthy version. I made it 3x already and everyone who tasted it only have good praises about it. And of course, just looking at the picture makes you want to drool with delight!

Here's are the pictures of how I did it. Recipe can be found here but I made some changes because I kinda lack in some of the recipes.

Here are the changes I made in the recipe:

- For the applesauce, I used gerber applesauce.
- I used Nestle greek yogurt but it's only 130g, since the recipe calls for 183g, I added about 50g
of fresh milk.
- Since the eggs here in Singapore are quite small, I double the amount of eggs required.
- Total baking time for regular sized muffin is 18 minutes but for mini-muffin, I adjusted the baking time to 12 minutes.

Steps:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients:

2. Mix all the wet ingredients:

3. Mix the wet and dry mixture:

4. Fold in the chocolate chips:

5. Mini-muffin with chocolate chip on top:

Regular-sized muffin:

Take note of the baking and temperature timings as it's very important.

It look's good, right? Pure chocolatey goodness!
I love the smell of my kitchen (and actually the whole house) when you're baking it ...it smells sooooo good that it makes you hungry.

I've noticed that the muffin tastes better the following day than when it's out from the oven, but one thing I'm sure of is I'm gonna make this over and over and over again :)

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2014 - Year of the Wooden Horse

Saw these 2014 prediction in Citylink Mall. Find your sign and read on:

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