I've been going out so often these few days, I keep neglecting my blog. And a huge apologies to all my avid readers out there (if there are any actually) LOL.

So anyways, the main event of last week was visiting my dearest friend MELLY. I can really say that she has been a really close and dear friend to me along my years in VJC. I guess because she understands me so well, I can relate to her really well! And not to mention the both of us love animes/manga/serial television shows and well.. being geeky (I guess?). Hahahaha.

The reason for my visit was not only to bake macarons, but to say hi to a new family member of hers! :) And her name is Muffin/Baby. Here was here my day went.

I took the bus 27 at a bus stop relatively close to my house. And to both Mel and my surprise, it only took like 35 minutes to reach Hougang Mall, but clever me alighted a stop earlier and I had to walk to Hougang mall using GPS. Thank goodness for technology!!!! :D We were supposed to meet at Subway for our lunch, but once again, I was so CLEVER, I've based my assumptions that gourmet stores are always found in the basement of any shopping malls. So I practically walked one entire round on the basement before realizing that subway was not there. When I came up again, the HUGE SUBWAY SIGN HUNG FROM THE SECOND FLOOR AND I'M LIKE WTH. I'M BLIND!!!

So anyways, we had our lunch at subway and we spent most of the time shopping for ingredients! HAHAHAHA because we cannot find the "sweetened chocolate" from the recipe list. So we were like hunting like mad. In the end, we just settled for some semi-sweet baking chocolate.

I'm also quite glad that Mel liked the souvenir I got her from Nanjing! It was a woolly blouse which had a cat's face on it. I wanted to buy the owl hoodie for her, but I couldn't find it D: Anyways since she got a cat at home, the blouse would be a good substitute for the owl hoodie! Besides she also bought a hoodie from Korea which had this 3D like ears and paws (If I'm not wrong!) ... SUPER ADORABLE I TELL YOU.

We played with Muffin for quite some time before we started baking .. that's because Mel was being super duper mean and she kept taunting Muffin with some toy. And it was super adorable to see Muffin scampering for it. Hahahaha ultra cute.

Sadly our macarons didn't turn out the way we imagined it to be as it was quite flat and not rounded at the top D: But the way we squeezed the pastry using our plastic-bag as a substitute for a piping-bag was super super fun. We had chocolate all over the place and we had the hardest time trying to scoop the pastry into the piping bag. It was just filled with hilarity! And since we were like messy all over, our pastry kept dripping onto the baking tray and we tried to 'incorporate' the small drops into the bigger ones, and it was quite an epic-fail ending! Mel was also spamming the icing sugar all over the top because she thought it was fun. And our tray was literally covered with icing sugar all around.

Btw, I asked my elder brother on how to make the macarons have the more rounded look, he said that it counts quite heavily on our technique of squeezing the pastry onto the tray. Sighs* From then on, I've decided to just practice with my playdoh at home with a plastic bag and see how it turns out! D:

With our hearts burdened with failure, we went back playing with Muffin, who cheered us up quite a lot! I guess Mel cheers herself up by 'torturing' Muffin with her cat toys again! Hahaha jkjk :P So anyways, we spent the next hour or so just looking through Mel's iPad for videos on how to make nicer macarons and Mel also showed me a lot of Muffin's photos/videos. It was literally a Muffin-utopia!

Oh well, even though our macarons turned out quite fail, I'm hoping our next baking fiesta would be much more successful!!!! :D Hahaha, cheer up Mel!!! :D:D:D:D Go play/torture your Muffin and whatnot! Hahahaha :)

Toodles~!