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Thursday, June 7, 2007 @1:39 AM

all i can say is, our cinnimon rolls turned out horrendous, haha but next time we will do a better job! tongzhen looked like she was on drugs, so sleepy the whole day! hm... it was so amazing to see yh, tang2 tang2 de gz huang2 di4. HAHA! what we did can be seen from the various blogs below...
and i wondered why can people bake such nice cinnimon rolls, comparing to our chaota one!

HI EVERYONE NOW...
LYDIAA AND TONGZHEN IS HERE NOW.

apparently they're all here to type this post.
Lydia: apparently yuhui just finished doing my toe nails and she's doing rania's one now!!isnt it fascinating!! our pres who always wana mantain her so called presidently mannerism is lyk being so bimbo n doing our nails!!! hohoho so fun la lalala if nxt time yuhui cnnt find ajob, she can just go to a nail parlour and work there! besides, rania's room is the perfect place to be bimbo!!
Tongzhen:I wana slp la*hugs pillow and starts drooling*
she says cancel start drooling. rubbish.
yuhuii: no comments
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Adapted from yuhui's blog...

HAHA RANIA HERE I COME!

NUMBER 1
background information:

at rania's house making cinnamon roll. in rania's kitchen digging out apparatus.

lydia: rania your house has weighing scale not? (IN THAT KIND OF SITUATION, OBVIOUSLY LYDIA WAS REFERRING TO APPARATUS FOR MAKING CINNAMON ROLE)

rania: ya i have. in my room in the TOILET!

lydia, tongzhen and i: *EXTREMELY PUZZLED. WHY IS WEIGHING SCALE FOR MEASURING FLOUR AND SUGAR IN HER TOILET??!!!

this is the weighing scale rania was referring to:

RANIA WANTS TO MEASURE 340 GRAMS OF FLOUR USING THIS WEIGHING SCALE!!!!

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NUMBER 2

background information:

rania was shouting from the 12th storey (her aunt's house) to 11th storey (her own house where her maids are)

rania: aunty can you get me a roller? (roller needed to spread and roll the cinnamon role)

aunty: oh, roller we have! you want short one or long one??

rania: huhh got short one and long one ahh?

30 seconds later

aunty comes up...

aunty: here, rania!

AUNTY HOLDS A 30CM RULER.....

lydia, tongzhen and i: DIED LAUGHING.

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SOME PICS!

i think we didnt take the MOST DISGUSTINGGG PARTTTSSS OF US MIXINGGG THE DOUGHHHHHHHHHHH. ITS REALLY DISGUSTING. REALLY. this the part after we have done we our disgusting mixing. and rolled it up :]

cutting it into 16 pieces!

the mutated shapes and disgusting ones are cut by me. :/ lydia cuts them rather nicely though.

BY ME! MUTATED ONE.

hardworking me cleaning up

our recipe stained with butter. sugar and flour :/you know how clumsy we are.

while waiting for the roll to rise. tongzhen sleeping on rania's bed.

rania has the same bedsheet as me!! TWEETY BIRD. HAHAA

rania's room is FILLED WITH PINKKKKK STUFF.

lydia says rania's room makes her feel extremely bimbotic. QUITE TRUE. the nail polishes are all lined up on the pink shelf so nicely for you to take and apply them.

and thus, TADAH.

MY ARTWORK. not on my own feet but for my two juniors rania and lydia -.-

imagine me bending down helping my juniorssss -.- HAHAHAHA QUITE NICE I THINK! judging by how clumsy i can get! i think this is RANIA'S FEET. HAHA.

AND....

OUR CHAO DAH CINNAMON ROLL -.-

i thought it looked like dog poo :/

ITS AS HARD AS ROCK.

now there's 2 pieces of them left at home.

my dad, my mum and my sis each took one mouth.

and refused to take the second bite :[

hahaha i dont wanna eat it myself either!

my juniors are quite bimbotic. rania and lydia started discussing abt which manicure shop to go to make their nails!!! -________-

haha if only pam was there!!

and i think pam will go OMG when she tries our cinnamon roll. HAHA.

oh my first attempt in baking sth without my mum's supervision.

HAIYA. 下次再努力。

rania, one lesson learnt:

you dont use your weighing machine in yout toilet to weigh your flour and sugar -____-

from tz:
yesterday.
was sleepy the whole day. and rania's weighing scale! needed a weighing scale for the baking. and rania's weighing scale.. was in her room, and in the bathroom! so amusing ((: and then she asked her aunty for a roller. and her aunty asked if she wanted a long or short one. and she came with a ruler! hehehheheheh! and other amusing happenings at her house. although i was almost asleep most of the time. and yuhui was painting lydia's and rania's toenails o.0 if i went home with painted nails i bet my mother will start screaming. anyway, the cinnamon roll were chao da! and it looked super not nice when it was cute up into 16 portions. heh. but my brother ate up everything that i brought back home. hehe. my mother and aunt refused to try it. my father took a bite and couldn't chew it properly. and m brother ate the rest :] yay

from pam's
I was feeling boliao this morning, so I decided to make cinnamon rolls, using the same recipe that Yuhui, Rania, Tongzhen and Lydia used.

First you mix the yeast with tepid water to activate the yeast, and then you add sugar, an egg, and salt. Then flour is added a little at a time till the dough comes together. Then you transfer the dough onto a floured surface. (The dough would be quite shaggy and sticky at this point.)

Knead it, flouring the surface and the dough whenever the dough gets sticky, for about 8 minutes until it is fairly smooth.

Let it rest for ten minutes before rolling it out into a rectangle that's quarter inch thick.

Add your fillings. I made 2 variations, the first being the cinnamon one that's the recipe specified, and the second being blueberry cheesecake. For the latter, I smeared cream cheese on the dough and dotted it with blueberries, and finally sprinkled a mixture of 1 tablespoon each of sugar and ground almonds and zest of one lemon.

Then I rolled both doughs up and stuck them into the freezer for a couple minutes to firm them up slightly.

Cut the dough into the number of pieces specified in the recipe (because I halved the recipe, I cut mine into eight pieces). I was highly amused by the blueberry ones. HAHA.

I then stuck them in the cups of my greased mini muffin tins and placed parchment paper collars around them so that when they rise, they would rise vertically and not horizontally. This is how they looked like when they were baked:

The blueberry ones were tasty! Lemon and blueberry is like the perfect couple and the cream cheese complemented that cos it was slightly tangy too. Sam and I loved the blueberry ones most while M preferred the cinnamon ones.

All in all, the rolls were a satisfying start to the day ahead and although they were less feathery that I'd like them to be, they were quick to whip up and I washed less dishes than usual. So yeah, I suppose these were worth the minimal effort :)