Unlike my teenage days when baking and cooking skills can only be learned from the home economics class in schools, young children today have many opportunities to learn. There are baking and cooking classes conducted in schools and at many other places.  As I have mentioned in my earlier post, Darren’s school also brought them to the baking industry.

Recently, I came across some baking and sushi making classes, at affordable fees, conducted at the Community Clubs. As the classes are full, we did not manage to enrol for our boys. Hence, to make it fun and educational at home, we spent a brief one hour in a learning process, together with the boys to bake CUPCAKES.

First we visited one of the specialty stores of Phoon Huat & Co in Singapore. Phoon Huat owns many specialty stores in Singapore at different locations at Ang Mo Kio, Bedok North, Bencoolen Street, Clementi, Geylang, Holland Village, Hougang, Simei and Toa Payoh, selling bakery and confectionary items. It is such a convenient one-stop station for us where we purchased all the baking items we needed.

 So we had the boys to take turns to mix and whisk the ingredients together, while we did the final touch, and finally here is our product.

Here are the ingredients for 4 CUPCAKES as it is just nice for the family. Considering it as our first attempt at home, it is not too bad huh? Most importantly, it tastes good.

  Ingredients

Plain Flour – 210g

Baking Powder – 1.5 teaspoons

Sugar – 140g

Eggs – 3 pieces

Vanilla Essence – 1 teaspoon

Unsalted Butter – 125g

Salt – ¼ teaspoon

Fresh milk – 70ml

I would also add raisins, M&M chocolates or bananas in future.

Enough for 4 medium sized muffin cups.  Oven set at about 180 deg celsius and baked for about 25 minutes. Three Cheers to my 3 muskateers for their successful first attempt in baking at home:)