Oreo Cupcake 奥利奥小蛋糕

I did this quite sometime back. Just shortly after I did this. One of my son's favourite cookies is Oreo. One day, I saw him munching on them non stop and I told him he will have to stop eating them otherwise I wouldn't be able to make cupcakes with them. :P The next thing that happened was he kept pestering me to do it. :P Next time must be careful about wanting to tell white lies. At least I finished the using all the cookies. So, I didn't really tell a lie lah. For this Oreo Cupcake, I didn't use the cream sandwiched in the cookies as I found them too sweet. I scraped them off and only used some as the 'cream' for the deco on a couple of cupcakes. But go ahead to use the cookies as it is if you like. No problem! Ingredients:

• 220g Butter, soften
• 200g Caster Sugar
• 4 Eggs
• 220g Self Rasing Flour
• 40 'single' Oreo Cookies, ie, 20 sandwiched Oreo, cream removed and crushed.

How to do it:

1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
2. Add one egg at a time and continue beating.
3. Add in flour and beat well till mixture is smooth and pale.
4. Fold in the crushed oreo till combined.
5. Spoon batter into muffin cup.
6. Bake for 20 minutes in preheat oven at 170C.
7. Cool on rack.

Lunch Box #3

Opps. It's another Lunch Box post. :P I'm cooking fried rice today and thought it will be a good lunch box idea. This is a rather common lunch box, omu-rice . It's basically egg over rice. I believe the authenic way is to have the rice wrapped in the egg. I wouldn't want to go through the haste of doing that for 2 reasons. It needs more eggs and the kids won't appreciate the effort of doing it. They will just cut the egg and eat it whichever way I do it. :P So, here's my simple version of omu-rice . I'm not using over-night rice hence the rice is a bit more moist but we prefer it that way. It's softer. All the ingredients are my son's favourite except for the hon-shimeiji. ;) You decide what you want in your rice To have the egg cover the rice, you first cook the egg. Have slight over half an egg hanging out the lunch box. Adjust the remaining to fitting nicely in the box. Spoon the fried rice into the box sitting on the egg. Flip the rest of the egg over then use a spoon to gently push the edge of the egg to the sides to tuck them in. And there you have it. :)