When Ameera gets bored

How are you today? It has been a week since we started Ramadhan. Alhamdulillah... Allah blessed us with lots of energy and good health to fulfill our duties. The same applies to my daughter. So far, she's only missed one day. That's all, because I thought she needed a little break anyway. That day, I could see that her mouth was really dry and she kept on complaining that her throat was sore. I didn't want to make it worse so, I asked her to break her fast.

That's €1 off the Ramadhan total, my dear. Hehehe.

She cut her sunflower from the garden

On one of her days fasting, while waiting for iftar, Ameera kept asking me to do something with her. As she has lots of energy (I don't know where she gets it from) I have to keep her occupied. We watch movies, do art work, etc..etc...

As an example, just today I decided to bake a few cuppies for her. She asked for chocolate cupcakes and I found this recipe from the  Joy of Baking site. The only difference to the recipe was one of the ingredients. I sort of needed to bake the cuppies in a hurry so didn't actually have the time to wait for room temperature butter. Without giving it a secod thought, I substituted the butter with normal sunflower cooking oil. To my delight, the taste was surprisingly superb and the cuppies turned out really moist and soft. When I was done with baking, I let Ameera do the decorating instead.

When it the time came to break our fast, she couldn't wait to taste the cuppies and grabbed one straight-away. Yummy were the only words that came out of her mouth that meal time...

Ameera - just trying to entertain herself

Mini oreo Surprise Cupcakes

I just wanted to share all the pretty cakes I made for Hisham's party. Hope you don't get bored with me going on and on about that party. Hopefully, if anyone's still interested they can have a go at this recipe as it is so easy to make yet so yummy (based on what all the guests said or at least, my husband who loved it so much).

So, I got this one from Kraft Recipes.

What you need (a cut and paste job from the Kraft website, just in case you don't feel like leaving my blog!)

1 pkg. (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix

1 pkg.  (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

1 egg

2 Tbsp.  sugar

48 Mini OREO Bite Size Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

1-1/2 cups  thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

How

HEAT oven to 350°F.
PREPARE cake batter as directed on package. Mix cream cheese, egg and sugar until well blended.
SPOON half the cake batter into 24 paper-lined muffin cups. Top each with about 1-1/2 tsp. cream cheese mixture and 1 cookie; cover with remaining cake batter.
BAKE 19 to 22 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool 5 min.; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.
FROST with COOL WHIP. Top with remaining cookies. Frosted cupcakes can be stored in refrigerator up to 3 days.

 Picture courtesy of Kraft as I forgot to take pictures of the middle part of my own version!

Easy isn't it? I added some with royal blue colouring for the frosting to match it to the party's theme for the day.