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My oh my! I am so blessed to be given this opportunity to review FOOD! To think how God has heard my ramblings (I was commenting on my FB page that I was down to my last bar of chocolates the other day) and here He sent me an offer to review CUPCAKES!

NUTELLA CUPCAKES!

6 of each flavors for Nutella, Nutella choc chips and Nutella raisins. All 18 of them! Yummmssss!!

Since this is my first food review, I think I'll do the Q&A version so that you guys can know more about this brand and its products:

Q: Tell me a brief history on how you started Khapkeks.

A: I started Khapkeks because cupcakes is the rave now, but I never liked the icing or buttercream - and because I had a lot of friends who prefer their cakes without the beautiful SWEET cream topping. My main motivation to start Khapkeks was my hubby - who is very particular about food, could eat 5-6 of nutella cupcakes at once. So one wild SMS to my sister to ask if her friends want to order, and within ten minutes - I had my first two boxes order.

Q: How do you come up with the brand name?

A: Then it came to setting up a FB page, names suggestion started coming in eg "sweet sensation", "lovely delight" - No, people will forget the name the next minute. I need something people will remember, but never be confused and unique - Khapkeks was created on September 23rd 2011.

Q: Any secret ingredients or techniques in making it?

A: Khapkeks are made of pure butter, omega eggs, sugar & flour. Secret ingredient? They're homemade with love :)

Q: What is special with your cupcakes or different selling points which you want people to know about your cupcakes?

A: I make cupcakes without icing - so customers get to eat what they paid for. Looks can be deceiving, it is more important about how you are within - same goes to cupcakes. We wouldn't want a beautiful cake - only to realize the cake is too hard, or doesn't use butter. If there are request for buttercream cupcakes -I will gladly accommodate but my main business is still on my classic Khapkeks. I use purely butter, and omega eggs - that's something that you don't always get in your cakes as some bakers use margarine or dairy spread to lower their costing.

I hope it's not because I was deprived off chocolates for a day or two, but the cupcakes are REALLY GOOD! In fact, I was already highly anticipating the cupcakes arriving at my doorstep and I kept telling myself, don't get my hopes so high, just in case it doesn't taste as good as I imagined it would be...

But the moment I got it (and profusely thanking Su Yi, the friendly cupcakes seller) I carefully peeled open the tape on the box and saw it:

Oh my glorious Nutella cupcakes! (** insert trumpets and all sorts of harmoniously playing musical instruments here for sound effect**)

My eyes went straight to the one with Nutella in it of course. Did I tell you one time I bought a big bottle of Nutella and almost whacked it finish just like that? No spreading on bread or anything... just a spoon and a happy me, happily scooping it away.. yummssss....

Okay, back to my review... see that glorious and yummylicious looking cupcakes on my hand? It looks good, and taste even better! Don't believe me? Let's see what my guinea pigs gotta say after they tried out these cupcakes:

ME	"Mmmm... nice! It's not dry and the buttery fragrant is nice too!" (I had 4.5 cupcakes)
BEN	"Mmmmm!! I want!! I WANT!!" (Ben had 1.5 cupcakes)
HUBBY	"Nice and moist, not like the ones you made last time!"  (Hubby had 2 cupcakes)
MY MIL	"Nice, not oily and not dry. I like it!"  (MIL had 1 cupcake)
MY SIL	"Too compact for cupcakes"  (SIL had 1 cupcake but she received it the next day evening)

The rest of the cupcakes were eaten by SIL's children, all saying "Nutella inside? Yumsss!" Enough talking, one last picture for you to look at... hahaha... see how my Alyson is eyeing the cupcake in her brother's hand? Ben looks distracted as he was watching Kungfu Panda on the TV, but trust me, he is enjoying the cupcake!

To sum up my first (hopefully many more to come!!) food review, all I can say is:

YUMMYLICIOUS TO THE MAX!

You can find out more at https://www.facebook.com/Khapkeks

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with 18 yummylicious cupcakes by Khapkeks in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

It has been months since I posted stuff related to baking or cooking. After my last recipe post on the Easy to Remember Pancakes, I browsed through the recipes on my iPad and came across this recipe which is quite similar, except you add oats into  it as well! Anyway, without further ado, here goes:

HEARTY BANANA OAT FLAPJACKS

PREPARATION TIME: LESS THAN 20 MINUTES

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

* 2 large ripe bananas, peeled and sliced
* 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 1/2  cup Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)   (I used Ben's organic instant baby oats)
* 1  tablespoon baking powder
* 1/4  teaspoon ground cinnamon   (I omitted this)
* 1/4  teaspoon salt (optional) (I omitted this)
* 1  cup fat-free milk (I used a packet of full-cream UHT milk)
* 1  egg, lightly beaten
* 2  tablespoons vegetable oil
* Aunt Jemima® syrup, warmed (I omitted this)
* Banana slices (optional)
* Coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans (optional) (I omitted this)

What to Do?

* In medium bowl, combine banana slices and sugar; stir to coat slices with sugar. Set aside.
* In large bowl, combine flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon and salt; mix well.
* In medium bowl, combine milk, egg and oil; blend well.
* Add to dry ingredients all at once; mix just until dry ingredients are moistened. (Do not overmix.)
* Heat griddle over medium-high heat (or preheat electric skillet or griddle to 375°F). Lightly grease griddle.
* For each pancake, pour scant 1/4 cup batter onto hot griddle.
* Top with four or five banana slices. Turn pancakes when tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked.
* Serve with warm syrup and, if desired, additional banana slices and nuts.

PROCESS & THE RESULTS

REACTIONS FROM MY "GUINEA PIGS"

ME	"A bit dry... could it be caused by the oats?"
BEN	"Mmmmm!!"
HUBBY	"Not enough oats!"

So there you go.... my attempt of making HEARTY BANANA OAT FLAPJACKS!

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It has been quite a while since I posted stuff related to baking or cooking. As I was up wayyyyy early in the morning (like 6am) on Saturday, I decided to browse through my kids' recipes app on my iPad and found this super easy to remember pancakes recipe! One that I can whip up from scratch without relying on premix! Anyway, without further ado, here goes:

EASY TO REMEMBER PANCAKES

PREPARATION TIME: LESS THAN 20 MINUTES

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

* 1 cup flour
* 1 tablespoon sugar
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon salt (if any at all) (I should have omitted this!!!)
* 1 cup milk (sometimes a little less) (I didn't measure this as I poured straight from an almost full 250ml UHT full cream milk)
* 1 egg, beaten
* 2 tablespoons butter, melted or 2 tablespoons oil (I used oil)

What to Do?

* Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together.
* Fold in milk, beaten egg, and melted butter or oil.
* Grease griddle or pan.
* Put about 1/4 cup batter on heated skillet.
* When bubbles start showing on the surface of the pancake, flip and continue cooking until done.

THE RESULTS

REACTIONS FROM MY "GUINEA PIGS"

ME	"Oh no! Salty! Should have omitted the salt! Tastewise, it's kinda like the fluffier version of my mum's Pok Chang"
BEN	"Mmmmm!!"  (He could have finished one pancake instead of eating about 80% of it if he had not eaten half slice of puff crust sponge cake while I was making the pancake)
HUBBY	"Salty! But OK-lah, I've seen some other hotels and places making pancakes like this. I think if eaten with bacon and all would be nice!"

So there you go.... my first attempt of making EASY TO REMEMBER PANCAKES without premix!

Just need to remember 1-1-1-1-1-1-2! Easy peasy!

To view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!