Emboldened by my success with my banana muffins, I decided to give another dessert making project a try.

(yes miraculously, the banana muffins turned out very nice! Must have took them from the oven at perfect timing cos the top was a little crusty but the inside was all moist and so good!  Everyone said the sweetness was okay – by everyone I mean Fatty and our helper – but I think a tad too sweet personally, although still good.)

So I asked Fatty, any requests? He said something with peanut butter.  So I googled, “Peanut butter” WTF cos I didn’t even know what I could make with peanut butter. >_>

Found a recipe for peanut butter cups though and it looked pretty easy so let’s go with that!

Also pretty gorgeous right?

Laid out the ingredients. Butter, creamy peanut butter (although you can go with chunky), semi sweet chocolate chips, powdered sugar.  That’s all!

Recipe and above image source here.

Only four ingredients and four steps to it.  Unbelievably easy sounding.

Plus it was a no bake recipe, so it was really only a matter of melting the chocolate chips, layering the chocolate into cupcake liners, then freezing it for 10 minutes.

Then layering the peanut butter on top, and freeze it again for another 10 minutes.

And then, adding a final layer of chocolate.  Last step is to freeze the lot and you’re done!

It was so simple I didn’t even bother taking step-by-step photos.

So okay, melted the chocolate chips in the microwave, poured it into the liners, and froze them.

For the peanut butter concoction, I mixed the peanut butter, powdered sugar and butter into a bowl.  The recipe recommended using an electric mixer but not having one on hand I used  a fork and spoon wtf. #roughingit

FML why look like lau sai. T______T  This was where it turned difficult.

When I spooned out the melted chocolate, it was only a matter of dropping the paper cups on to the counter so the chocolate would settle evenly.

The peanut butter was a whole other issue.  The mixture was so thick it was nearly solid and impossible to make even. 🙁

This was the best I could make it.  And then it just went downhill from there wtf.  Because the peanut butter was uneven, I couldn’t even out the top chocolate layer either.

Also I underestimated the amount of chocolate and peanut butter I would need for each cup…

So just to recap.

But the truth hurts wtf.

T___________________T

They look like rabbit droppings T_____________T

Fatty dutifully ate a few then after that said he got sore throat wtf.

So I don’t think they were anywhere near good la. T_T  After all it’s only chocolate and peanut butter.

Sigh so baking project #2 not so successful.

But!  As part of cooking attempt #3, I tried making pan mee.  Recipe from here.

Ohhh so this is “braising”.  Had to google what it meant hahaha.

Frying the ikan bilis and fishballs.

Pan mee is not too difficult la although there are a lot of steps in it.  All the ingredients need to be prepared separately (hence the number of steps) then assembled together at the end.

So it’s essentially…

Boiled noodles/mee hoon kuih + stir fried ground pork and sliced mushrooms + fried ikan bilis + fish balls + pork and ikan bilis soup + baby spinach

Tadah! Not too shabby huh.  The soup was good!  And so was the spinach and noodles.  The pork a bit too much taste for me but I dunno which seasoning to reduce the next time wtf. *noob

Actually I had a LOT of help from my helper la hahaha.  I am the worst, most inexperienced cook in the world and don’t even know how to hold a knife properly.  My helper did all the slicing and dicing, showed me how to ‘braise’ and ‘stir fry’ fml and also made and kneaded the dough for the noodles.  I did the gathering of ingredients, added them, stir once in a while, and checked the temperature and timing wtf.

Oh just one picture with my happy critter.

Why you look so dubious when I kiss you!?

This cooking thing is fun!  What should I make next?

Next step: to actually do the ‘cooking’ i.e. turning on the fire, and moving the spatula around myself, etc wtf.

 all photos taken with my Sony Xperia Z3