the most exquisite miss annie lennox

i love QUEEN, i looooove freddie mercury, i LOVE under pressure song and i L-O-V-E annie lennox, mix them together and add david bowie resulting in a most exquisite performance EVER!
these are screen capture from annie lennox and david bowie performance in tribute to freddie mercury concert video. one word for annie lennox, BOLD!

look at annie lennox's dress, even david bowie said "where did she get that dress?!"

my favorite video

HI! to some of you who might had been reading my old blog and now got redirecting to this blog. note for you, im not deleting that blog, i just got bored with that blog and feel more like writing about baking and things related, well, more like everything sweet. YES! this blog is sugar loaded blog, SWEET!
i'll write about my personal dream, personal thought, travel, things i like, CUPCAKES! pretty much everything i like, i love.. so maybe there'll be a dash of fashion in this blog too, dont worry!
but seriously, note this as my 2010 resolution "i will stop worrying about comments and followers, i will write without thinking what would others thought about it, i will enjoy my writing, i will write for my self!"
so yes, finally i come up with a resolution, just finally.

this below is my newly discovered favorite video, i've been watching this over and over for the past three days. im a big fan of keavy landreth of kumquat cupcakery and trust me, she looks really pretty in this video, the song is really good too, a sweet song just as sweet as the cupcakes.
a really good video apart from the cupcake baking involved, im a sucker for cupcake baking video so count me in for every video about cupcake baking, but this one wins me over for every aspects, every minutes and every moves in it.

wishlists

kitchen wishlist

-pink KitchenAid stand mixer
-pink KitchenAid ford processor but well, anything can do
-digital kitchen scale
-pyrex mixing bowl set
-stainless steel mixing bowl set
-fancy mixing bowl
-fancy baking utensils such as spatulas, whisk, measuring cups and spoons
-good measuring spoons and cups (stainless steel)
-cookie scoops
-good flour sifter
-more baking pans (round, square, tart, loaf, cookie, etc)
-more cookie cutters
-fancy cake stands
-cupcake and cake carriers
-pastry cutter
-cake spatulas
-cookies spatula
-tier cooling rack
-silpat
-pyrex measuring cup
-wilton cupcake decorating set
-wilton icing sculpture
-stainless steel baking tray
-melon baller
-good wooden spoon

book wishlist

-baking from my home to yours (dorie greenspan)
-how to be a domestic goddes (nigella lawson)
-more from magnolia (allysa torey and jennifer appel)
-the buttercup bake shop cook book (jennifer appel)
-martha stewart's baking handbook
-cookie craft (valerie peterson and janice fryer)
-betty crocker's cooky book
-hello, cupcakes! (alan richardson and karen tack)
-the hummingbird bakery cookbook (tarek malouf)
-Sky High: Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes (Alisa Huntsman, Peter Wynne, and Tina Rupp)
-little cakes from the whimsical bakehouse (kaye hansen and liv hansen)
-Baked: New Frontiers in Baking (Matt Lewis, Renato Poliafito, and Tina Rupp)
-tate's bake shop cookbook (kathleen king and ina garten)
-southern cakes (nancie mcdermott)
-the sweeter side of amy's bread (Amy Scherber, Toy Kim Dupree, and Aimee Herring)


so those are my wishlists, i have plenty of whislist by the way such as photography wishlist, fashion wishlist, personal wishlist, travel wishlist and so on and so on.
but who doesnt, right? teehee!

all image from amazon.com and collage by me

PB+jelly cupcakes

wow, i post a lot these past few days, huh?
its just, mmm.. you know, the mood.. im in an extravagant mood of posting and frankly i have lot of pictures waiting to be posted, so just get ready :D

so these are martha stewart's peanut butter and jelly cupcakes, i injected them with strawberry jelly (that's all i had) and frosted them with my very own peanut butter frosting. gave them all to my friend donna and she LOVED them, as well as her friends. yes she brought the cupcakes to her office and were gone in mere minutes! cool eh?

her only complain was just the size, too big! whadda?!

and the recipe? come on.. its martha stewart's famous cupcakes, its must be all over the internet and COME ON, dont you own the book?
heehee

bye bye 2009 a.k.a cheesecake-marbled brownies

pheew! 2009 been a quite year for me, lots of fun things happened and i certainly improved my baking skills in 2009. frankly, i dont like new year.. new year means new responsibilities, new problems, new things im clueless about. urrgh! its depressing!
so just you know, im not a fan of new year..
then lets talk about this bake goods i made several weeks ago.
cheesecake-marbled brownies!! YUMMY! while im typing this i actually thinking about baking these yummies again, alas, i'll be the only person who's munching on these and i wont do that for sure :(

cheesecake-marbled brownies from deb of smitten kitchen

Brownie batter
1 stick (1/2 cup or 4 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2/3 cup all-purpose flour

Cheesecake batter
8 ounces cream cheese, well softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg yolk
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Plus
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips (i omit this)

Make brownie batter: Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Butter an 8-inch square baking pan. Heat butter and chocolate in a 3-quart heavy saucepan — though I did mine double-boiler style, placing the mixing bowl I was using over simmering water, thereby creating one less dirty dish and melting the chocolate more gently — over moderately low heat, whisking occasionally, just until melted. Remove from heat and whisk in sugar, eggs, vanilla, and a pinch of salt until well combined. Whisk in flour until just combined and spread in baking pan.

Make cheesecake batter: Whisk together cheesecake batter ingredients in a small bowl until smooth. Dollop over brownie batter, then swirl in with a knife or spatula.

i used knife to swirl the batter


Bake brownies: Bake until edges are slightly puffed and center is just set, about 35 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

perfect chocolate cupcakes

oooh, i finally found the perfect chocolate cupcakes! after depending only on devil's food cake which by the way is too chocolatey and i think a whole other kind of chocolate cupcakes. i finally YES found it!
i photographed these tasties with my brand new lens nikkor 50mm/f1.8 and look at them! soooo pretty cupcake shots rite? heehee..
i frosted them with chocolate cheese frosting and trust me, they taste like ice cream! super!

oh enough words, lets just go to the pictures.

sugar crawler

hi blog! i miss you blog! tee hee!
these are pictures from my very first booth in a two days weekend market. the market was located in kemang and i was there with my bake goods. 6 flavors of cupcakes plus 4 kind of cookies? equal pheew! im-so-tired-but-im-so-happy-too. sooo looking forward for more markets :D

that day's flavors were pink lemonade, cookies and cream, devil's food cake, red velvet, chocolate -filled peanut butter, vanilla caramel.
and the cookies were chocolate chip, chocolate candy and oreo cookie.
YUMMY!