Walnut and Carrot Cupcake

The walnut and carrot cupcake is just like a mini version of the actual carrot cake. So simple and easy to make.

Ingredients:

1 cup Plain Flour (sifted)
1 cup Carrots (grated)
1 cup Walnuts (chopped)
1/2 cup Olive Oil
3/4 cup Sugar
2 teaspoons Vanilla Essence
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
2 Eggs

For topping:

Low Fat Cream Cheese
Crushed Walnuts

~ Step 1 ~

Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

~ Step 2 ~

Grate the carrots in a measuring cup. I used two medium carrots.

~ Step 3 ~

Put walnuts into a bag before crushing them to little pieces. This is faster than chopping them one by one.

~ Step 4 ~

Next, sift the flour in a mixing bowl.

~ Step  5 ~

Mix sugar, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla essence, carrots, and walnuts together with the sifted flour. I find that 3/4 cup of sugar is not sweet enough, will probably use 1 cup the next time.

~ Step 6 ~  

Stir evenly while adding olive oil, and eggs.

~ Step 7 ~  

Arrange cupcake cases in cupcake tray. Pour in cake batter into the cases filling up to 2/3 full. Makes about eight cupcakes.

~ Step 8 ~

Bake in oven for 15 minutes or until your skewer (you can use a chopstick) comes out clean when you insert into the centre of each cupcake.

Spread a layer of cream cheese on top of your cupcake, and sprinkle with crushed walnuts.

Pororo Park Singapore

We are pretty excited about the newly opened Pororo Park in Singapore. Located at Marina Square, this indoor playground comes with a choo choo train apart from the usual pool ball pit, and jungle gym. My boy enjoys singing and dancing with Pororo and friends too. Too bad, we are not allowed to take photographs of these lovely mascots while they were performing their sing along song.

Check out the house rules before visiting:

http://www.pororoparksg.com/house-rules.html

Mummy, can you stop asking me to pose please? I wanna play right now!

Pororo Express do take a break every half an hour, hence, do queue up for the ride when it is operating. You might need to wait for a while before the train starts again. I love it when the staffs walked together with the train ensuring safety among all.

Teaching the children some safety rules before train starts.

Next, is Jungle Gym where my boy could not stop climbing up and down. 

Whoever could resist the lovely pool ball pit where you could swim all day? I would love to join my boy too!

Not to forget Pororo House with little miniatures furniture designed just for toddlers. They are simply too adorable. My boy even pretended to wash his hands at the cutie sink.

When Pororo and friends are not performing, you get to watch cartoons instead at Tong Tong's Little Theatre.

Little toddlers' corners..

Cafe for exhausted parents to take a break. There are washrooms in Pororo Park, so do not worry.

Some pictures before we bid goodbye.

Rody's Toy Store!

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