Labour of Love

Requested by my husband. Happy Sunday guys! :)

Tuesday Things #2

1. It's officially autumn in Melbourne! So we woke up early, bought our favorite toasted croissant sandwich and cycled to Carlton Gardens. Had a picnic there and shoot some photos before Husband's off to work and I'm off to RMIT to study. What a good life! Blessed.

2. Last Saturday Fabulous Floral joined Blackbird Market and made its debut appearance. All I can say, it was a really a good experience for me and I met lotsa good and talented people. Must join again for upcoming market I reckon?

3. Looking good huh? Making my second post for Tuesday Things. Haha. 

Tuesday Things

They say everything needs a system, so I guess the same rule applies to blogging as well.  So here I am inspired by few of my favourite bloggers, I'm planning to blog a post. And I'm gonna call it 'Tuesday Things'. So here goes the list:

1. My bookbinding class was super fun. All of my students were awesome! Including the Laneway Learning gang. More photos to come.

2. Watched Norma Jean last Sunday. Front row as usual. Crazzzyyy! And what's with being too 'polite' Aussie kids? ;)

3. Democracy in Malaysia is officially dead. Sad but true. :(

4. I'm currently busy sewing (my ass-off) preparing goodies for upcoming Blackbird Market in Fitzroy!

5. I cooked confit chicken with Chinese stir-fried vegetables and couscous yesterday. Simply stunning! But I wasted almost a bottle of extra virgin of olive oil for this. Oh wait, food is cheap here!

6. I got melancholic thinking about Malaysia. And I've been listening to Butterfingers a-lot! Because we've just found out that JB HiFi NOW has Butterfingers almost-full album in their collection. Haha.

7. I talked in front of youngsters just now about CHANGE. Refreshing! And I met more wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Malaysians. Thank you Samantha (from SBS) and the other two ladies from JOM Magazine for quoting my words and thoughts.

8. And I have to start doing my projects, as in my study. Bugger!

Recipe: Guilt-Free Chocolate Cupcake

Back in Malaysia I was kinda opposed to the idea of 'healthy' baking. Probably because of the lacking of flavor and the right texture or simply because the price of the ingredients to make such 'healthy' baked goodies are just ridiculously expensive. Anyway I'm slowly integrating my baking to a more healthier version and husband seems to enjoy it. So I guess it's a definite green light from him, no?

So for today, I whipped this beautiful but simple chocolate cupcake in less than 10 minutes to end our good nasi kandar journey (cooked ayam masak kicap berempah, nasi kandar style last night) since last night. And boy, I'm glad I did that. It was perfect!

Teresa Cutter's Healty Chocolate Cupcake

Source: here

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups (150 g) almond meal

1/4 cup (21 g) unsweetened good quality cocoa powder 

1 tsp of baking powder

2 free range/organic eggs

1 tsp of vanilla extract

60 ml (1/4 cup) of light olive oil

60 ml (1/4 cup) almond milk

2 tbsp of pure honey

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 180C

2. Combine sieved almond meal, cocoa powder and baking powder

3. Add the eggs, oil, milk and pure honey, mix well

4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients together and mix well until form a smooth batter

5. Spoon the batter into cupcake tin/liner

6. Bake for 25 minutes until puffed and cooked through

Verdict:

Love, love, love! This is definitely my go-to cupcake from now on, at least!