I have been working on a few posts for the food blog; though there are various small touch-ups to do, I guess it's about 75 - 80% done! So you can take a sneak peek here if you are interested :) Hopefully by being open and including some of the recipes I use etc I can eventually attract like-minded dessert lovers to the food blog to exchange ideas/ tips too!

In other news - D highly encouraged that I catch Skyfall with him and so we did last Sun. These days I wldn't have watched all these action/ blockbuster type movies left on my own - but being a bit more open-minded has its benefits/ surprises :) And in this case, Adele's opening song at the start of the movie really caught on and it's tentatively a new favorite song. Dunno why - it's not really my type of song but am kinda drawn to it. She has such a soulful voice.

We had an early birthday celebration lunch for Dad today and since the health-conscious him wasn't too fond of cakes, I decided to make him a real tiny one. The cute tiny cheesecake I made a few weeks ago immediately came to mind. I remembered it being nice and toasty immediately after baking and so decided to bake it this morning so that I cld bring it to lunch.

Alas - my birthday cake turned out ugly, sad and somewhat soggy - totally not befitting a birthday cake for Dad :( Was rather upset and thought my underbaking it must have been the reason (which I did lah) .. until I came home and suddenly realised that I had forgotten to add the few tablespoons of flour!! How clever of me. Thankfully my family was nice and still enjoyed my sad-looking cake. It's comforting to have supporters who say nice things even when you felt like you fell short.

Added a sugar heart to draw the eye away from the imperfections at the side hehe. Also packed 2 mascarpone cheese choc cupcakes I made yesterday in my DIY cake bento - sadly they were too dry and even D wasn't v keen to finish them. Yesterday/today were really bad-cake-days :(


In other news, I have been working on another personal project - a food-centric blog where I can share my baking adventures and photographs. Hopefully I can get it up by end of the month - it's taking a while as I am trying to self-learn some basic HTML/CSS to customise the look. Ready-to-use blogger templates aren't exactly that pretty... And actually this blog needs some mini facelift just that I am a bit inertiaed to do it heh. Meanwhile if you have ideas for my food blog/ any feedback on all my food post ramblings here feel free to let me know too!