Basic Lemon Cupcakes Recipe!

Hello everyone ! 

I've always loved to bake and lemon cupcakes are one of my favourite cupcakes ever !! 

Its easy to make and it does not need much ingredients ! :)

I'm not super good at it and there's ALOT more to improve ,but i thought i'd still share this recipe cause its really yummy ! hehe 

What you'll need is :

Cupcakes

115g of flour 

1/2 teaspoon baking powder 

113g of butter/margarine 

115g caster sugar ( i'll always reduce it to 95g, it depends on how sweet you like it)

2 eggs 

finely grated rind of 1/2 lemon (the outer part of lemon)

2 tablespoon milk

1) Pre-heat your oven to 190 C 

2) Grate your lemon rind with a grater .

3) Measure out all your baking ingredients .

4) Have your choice of cupcake cups and line your cupcakes cups in your cupcake tins . Usually this recipe makes 12 cupcakes !

5) Sift the flour and baking soda into a large bowl .

6) Beat the Butter , then add the sugar , and then the eggs ! If the batter looks too watery and un-smooth , quickly add some butter to it , so it won't ruin the texture of the cake . If the cake looks like it isn't smooth , the end result of the texture of the cupcake wouldn't look as nice as it is if the batter was smooth .

7) Add the rest of the ingredients in , the lemon rind , milk , flour and baking powder

8) Spoon the batter into the paper cases . The batter should fill more than half of the cupcake cup. Not too full , not to little . 

9) Put your cupcakes in the oven for around 15-20 mins , till your cupcake turns golden brown .

10 ) Transfer to a wire rack to cool. 

I usually cool it for an hour . If the cupcakes are still warm and you put icing on it ,  the icing will definitely melt.

If you prefer having the cupcakes without the icing , it also taste as good ! 

Icing Recipe 

85g of butter

175g icing sugar 

1 tablespoon lemon juice 

piping bags , nozzles , and any cupcake decorations (optional)

1) Squeeze the lemon juice

2) Beat the butter , add half of the icing sugar , the lemon juice , and then the other half of the icing sugar .

3) When the icing is done , put your choice of nozzles in the piping bag , and you're good to decorate the cupcake however you like !

 As i've said on the above , still improving ! Especially with my icing ! haha

Since, there's extra lemon juice , you could always use the rest of it and drink it with warm water !

Apparent its really rich in Vitamin C and it prevents the skin from having acne and wrinkles

 And there you go ! Easy delicious cupcakes ! :) Hope ya guys enjoy it !

x

My experience in Kota Kinabalu , Sabah

Hello everyone ! 

As some of you guys know , i went for a hike up to Mount Kinabalu a few weeks back :)

Honestly, that trip was amazing ! It was a really really cool achievement for me . 

It was very very tough , not gonna lie .

Me & my sister didnt really train to go up , so after hiking up , our bodies were so soar! 

We thought of going because my mum's friend is going & he asked us along , so we agreed.

We travelled along with Uncle Khoo Swee Chiow. He'spretty famous in Singapore i think :)

He was one of the first mens in asia to travel up Mount K2 , he has 2 Guinesse world record & etc.

It was a pleasure getting to travel with him :) 

If you wanna know more about him google him! His life is filled with adventures! super duper cool.

Anyway ,here are some pictures as i tell you what we did !

So before hiking up , we stayed in Kinabalu Pine Resort for a night. 

Gotta say that its beautiful there .

looks like a place in Twilight eh ? :)

 Here's our view from the place we stayed at :) Beautiful!

After a night there , 

well.. sadly.. time to climb up!

It took us 6 bloody hours to get up because we took a slow walk. 

It was 6 km up. i know 6km sounds pretty short to you , but remember , its a mountain!

UP ALL THE WAY ! 

plus , as you climb up the air gets thinner so its harder to breathe :/ everything gets harder aha.

As soon as i arrived , i've gotten Altitude sickness ( AMS )

I had a really really bad headache , the worst headache ive gotten in my life !!! 

Some of the people we went up with also got it & ended up vomiting :/ mad eh ? it was pretty bad. 

But as soon as we got down we were okay :)

This is the view when we arrived :)

We were above the clouds! 

We were suppose to climb up to the Summit at 2am in the morning ,

but we didnt because we wanted to take it easy and there were 2 kids with us , so we hiked up at 7am instead.

The hike up was only 3km but we took 6 hours again because it was tough .

I wanted to give up 247356254612591 times but still kept telling myself , keep going.

It was steep as well &; we used ropes to get up :S

 pretty mad eh ?

Our guide was so used to it he didnt even have to use the rope !

and he is 56 years old can you believe it.

 While we were on the way up , the guide asked us to stop because it was raining heavily & it will be slippery. But we still kept going ! When i was only 0.5km away from the Summit, i wasnt feeling good because i couldnt breathe properly :/ Damn altitude. 

and finally......

WE ARE THERE !!!!

i swear that was the happiest moment of my life hahahah!

 Forcing myself to smile im not even kidding i was exhausted

 WE ACHIEVED IT!

and... thats the end of our climb !

It was an amazing 1 week.

It felt like i went for an adventure !

I dont think i will go up to Mount KK again though ,

i dont know if i can go through all the steps , not having enough air to breathe & getting that bad headache!

I guess its a once in a lifetime experience for me. ahah!

But if you want to go then i suggest you go ahead! the view up there is amazing !!! 

One tip for you when you go up is , keep your bag as light as possible or it'll be hard for you to go up.

thats all about my trip! 

toodles!!!

x

Credits to Uncle Khoo Swee Chiow & Swee Chong for some of the pictures.