Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

Today..me and adek baked! ( ohh bubbles would be soo jealous if she knew !! )

She was not feeling too good last couple of days and had to stay home with mummy. So this is what we did!!! We made cupcakes :D and we loved it!

( Adek with the whisk )

( After a trip in the oven for 20 mins )

I have been helping out Ms.E with some baking and the last couple of weeks and my oven has been baking cupcakes. Chocolate cuppie are not my fav things to bake, as I can remember the last time I baked them was in Cairo..long time ago and it didn't turn out soo good and since then I stopped and only baked vanilla, lemons everything else beside chocolate cuppies. This time I was requested to make both vanilla and chocolate ones...hmmm...feeling quite nervous I ,did it. This time I used a recipe from a very cute cupcake book I have by Elinor Klivans and they turned out fantastic! well..Ms E was happy and so was her client and im a happy camper...hooray!

( A little dressing )

( All ready !! )

So I had some leftover sour cream in the fridge from last week baking and I thot if didn't use them up this week they will be bad...and sour cream are not cheap. I knew I wanted to make chocolate cuppies but I didn't want to make the same one again, i looked up on the internet and found these ones....Dark Chocolate Cupcakes (www.browneyedbaker.com) and frost it with the basic american buttercream frosting.

It was a really easy recipe and I didn't even have to take my mixer out. This recipe makes 12 dark yummy chocolate cupcake, I gobble up 2 before i could frost it although I promise myself that i would wait! ,bubbles had two in one sitting and for my little baker Adek..she just likes the process of making it and the licking the whisk part...she didn't have any, but she sure make my cleaning up much easier with all her licking!!

( A proud baker/helper )

the babies at 6 months

I was posting some pictures of zafir on my FB and 1 particular picture caught my eye, and i thought didn't i took the same picture of bubbles on this same bed and sheets? hmm so i went looking to the archived and there it was...it was taken on the eve of Eid 2006, she was 6 months old. Same place, same props and same pose...i did look for a picture of adek...but nada, the picture i had of her was taken in our old flat in cairo at 6 months...same pose though :)

Looks like they are all spot on the milestone :D

(bubbles)

(adek)

(baby zafir)

My new baby boy

(Zafir and Mak Na)

Dont be jumping now....hahaha...nooo.....i did not have a new baby. the baby i was referring to is my lil ahmad zafir...my lil brother and sil son....my new nephew. Why am i not called Mak long? Well we did try for a few days but some how it doesn't sound rite when i refer myself as Mak long so we decided that i am Mak Na...but caveman is Pak Long hehehehe...( he didn't have a choice!)

Ain't he cute? Mashallah....this one is happy one and very generous with his smiles...geram sangat!

Bubbles said that I am his aunty mummy, and that we are not now 2 but 3, zafir is our lil brother :D...very sweet rite and visa versa my sil and lil bro also has 2 girls now...bubbles and adek :D.

We miss him alot! we wish we could take him back with us but of course that would not be fair to his parents and grans. I'm glad now my mum has someone to play with at home, although he keeps her on her toes, he also makes her very happy.

Zafir makes everyone smiles..

Its the end of the world as we know it...and i feel fine!! goodbye REM

music to me are memories and inspirations, im sure to many of us out there. there are songs that has significant impact and when u listen to it, it just takes u right there at that moment in time, that particular incident, that special mood that comes with it. although i must say that not every song does that to you...some you just cant live without...

this morning while having my morning breakfast the newscaster on BBC announced that REM is calling quits! im like...Oh man!!!! not them,and all of the sudden all their song flooded my head and the memories came back.

i 1st heard REM when i was 12 and thats as the start of me listening to music of this genre and it hasn't stopped. they had always been and will always be one of my ultimate band. its sad that my girls don't get hear music of this kind growing up instead they listen to Lady Gaga and the sorts, that are just noise to my ears.

they are a great band, but after 3 decade they have made their mark and their song will live on like many other great songs.

i would luv to post all of their vid here but i will not....:D.

these are just some of the songs that will embedded in me for always..

there will not be another REM but im glad that there was once a band called REM.

I heart you REM