Moist Banana Cake

Ingredients

250g Butter
250g Castor sugar
250g Plain Flour
3 eggs
4 Ripe Bananas - Finely mashed
1 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder

Method

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add eggs in one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in bananas. Then add in sifted flour together with baking powder.
3. Pour batter into prepared tin.
4. Bake at 180C for about 45 mins or until skewer comes out clean when pushed into the thickest part of the cake.
5. Stand for a few minutes before transferring cake onto wire rack to cool.

I'm very happy with my cakes lately. All turned out yummy and moist! Enjoy and Happy baking!!

Camping @ East Coast Park

Camping in Singapore is not very popular. It has become more of a racial thingy. I wanted to do something different with the kids and thought it would be fun to camp with my boys. Claira and her boys camped aa few weeks back and loved it.. that gave me inspiration to try this out. 

We arrived @ East coast park area D around 4.30pm. We were lucky to have perfect weather and found a spot to set our tent almost immediately. While setting the tent, the kids had fun playing with sand. 

As usual.. Aidan had to snack in between playing. He's always hungry.

Kids played till about 7pm and started washing up after that. I went to buy dinner from Lagoon Hawker Centre and we all picnic outside our tent. It was definitely an experience! It was dark and all we had was a little lamp. It didn't matter cause we had yummy food.. waves splashing.. cool breeze blowing. We all washed up and everyone was in bed by 9pm.

Aidan woke me up at 7.30 am and I'm glad he did. 

I was woken up just in time for sun rise.

I walked around and some campers really surprise me.

Aidan playing five-ten with Emerick.

Ryan slept like a baby.

Aidan played with sand castle while waiting for Ryan to wake up.

Then we decided to cook! 

Comfort food. Maggi Mee..:D

Aidan had a big bowl,

While Ryan continued snoring.......

Ryan woke up close to 9am (much later than usual) and it was starting to get hot..We decided to pack up and head home to shower!!!!! Overall... it was another great trip! We had beautiful weather.. Kids had fun... and the adults now suffer from backache!

Thanks Emerick for joining us!

Tips:
The first thing is that you'll need to get a camping permit, which you can book online or at AXS self-service machines. You will only be able to do this if you have permanent residence or a long-term visa for Singapore as the permit requires you to enter your IC or FIN number.

Camping Fee: FOC

Orange Moist Cake

  

 Orange Moist Cake

Ingredients:

90g Unsalted Butter

165g Castor Sugar

180ml Whole Milk

1Tbs Orange Rind, grated. Becareful not to grate the rind down to the white inner skin as it is bitter.

1 Egg

225 Plain Flour

1 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder

1Tsp Vanilla extract

Syrup

90ml Orange juice(I prefer Naval Orange)

50g Castor Sugar

Method:

1. Preheat oven at 180°C and put a rack in the middle of the oven.
2. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar together. Then add in orange rind and vanilla extract.
3. Cream the mixture until light and fluffy.
4. Add the egg, beating well until totally incorporated.
5. Fold in sifted flour (with the baking powder) and milk gradually. Stir until well combined.
6. Pour the batter into prepared rectangular

7. Bake for about 40 minutes or until skewer comes out clean when pushed into the thickest part of the cake.
8. Stand for about 5 minutes.
9. Meanwhile mix together sugar and orange juice. Stir over heat until sugar is dissolved. Bring to boil and remove from heat.
10. Once the 5 minutes have passed, pour syrup evenly over hot cake.
11. Let the cake cool before eating.

Enjoy it anytime of the day

Kelong Dinner

Kelong - a Malay word to describe a form of offshore platform built predominantly with wood and can be found in waters off Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia while only a handful remains around Singapore due to rapid urbanization. Kelongs are built by fishermen primarily for fishing purposes, although larger structures can also function as dwellings for them and their families. They are built without the need for nails, using rattan to bind tree trunks and wooden planks together. Over the weekend a group of us went on an seafood "makan" excursion on a Kelong somewhere near the southern coast of Pulau Ubin island. Its about 15 minutes by boat from Changi Point Ferry Terminal.

Boys were a little worried at first but as usual they warmed up quickly.

15 mins later.. we were approaching our "makan" place.

The boys loved the place the minute they step out from the boat. They were so comfortable running around, looking at fishes, exploring the Kelong and playing with the man made swing. We were more worried for them and kept shouting "be careful" especially when we are actually floating in the middle of the sea.

Here comes the food! YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pictures paint a thousand words so.. without further ....

It was close to sunset by the time we complete our dinner.

Overall, we had a great time! Lots of laughter, gossiping, watching the kids play and fight and most importantly we had a yummy feast.

What better way to end our trip..:) A visit to the toilet before departing....:P