minibake: carrot cake

I marked my weekly schedule to discipline myself to bake at least twice a week after I'm done with my classes; or else the efforts of paying so much to attend a class will just gone wasted.This is my 3rd bake on my own without guidance; but the first one that I shoot for remembrance.

Carrot Cake

Gosh.. I actually find that shredding carrot is so tiring. Perhaps I should get myself a food processor. :-\

After I'm done shredding the carrots, I need to cut the prunes into small sizes, resize the walnut to a smaller size and also blend the cinnamon into powder form. I took almost 1 hour doing the cutting, shredding, blending part.. @@

And there after carefully follow the step by step I'd learn and into the oven it goes.

Final product.. tada!~ satisfy. The prunes, raisins, shredded carrots, walnuts did not sink to the bottom like my previous try :)

But.. but.. the cake does not rise. I'm not sure does it suppose to rise or not. And it's kind of too moist.

Some said it's too sweet, some say tasty .. anyway.. I'm thinking to re-adjust the formulation again :)

Oh, happy day!

I somehow felt some happy aura inside me today yesterday. Not sure why. Perhaps I had had a really relaxing and enjoyable weekend after such a long time of busy weekends. Finally no classes on Saturday. Hooray! Finally a meet up, lunch and 38 session with BFF after what seem like such a long time ago. Hooray!

Not doing much talking doesn't mean I'm bored ya. Somehow I enjoyed looking at you two crapping, which I had not been doing for so long. Really, sometimes talking pointless things - nothing serious, nothing related to anything at all, really make me feels good. How good if everyday also can be so pointless like this. Impossible.

At this moment, I do feel that meeting back with people from the past phases of my life makes me feels more comfortable, relax and be myself :)

And also meeting back my sweetheart after such a long time. She is one of those around me that keep me inspire to move on in my life. One of those that I can spill out my vex or to get some opinion and also to 38! :)

And yeah .. I go through my 2012 resolution. Some had been marked off. Some on the way progressively. And these are what give me some happy beams too, today yesterday. In addition to the bf giving some assurance on something. I know he had been working hard on it. Erk.. makes me feel guilty somehow. It's going to be a tough year. But we are going to make it don't we? And I'm going to mark off all those won't I? Hopefully :)

Review time had past. It's time to rearrange again. Ganbatte.

Finally, one off the checklist :)

Ops! Sorry for the blur picture.

Revealing things that had been keeping me busy during weekends lately.

Oh yes, finally I'm so called graduated from my baking course. I'm so glad that I somehow manage to fully committed my time, having full attendance for this course. I enjoyed it, a lot. Although frankly, in the middle of the course, I did felt dreadful and tired and felt like skipping classes, but everytime this feeling starts to eat me up, I will flip back my 2012 resolution notes and keep myself going no matter how tired and reluctant I felt :)

Finishing the course is one thing. Practice and mastering it is another thing. I have 6 more months to go. Ganbatte kudasai!