Simple! Delcie’s is a company that believed in community bonding and relationships to help one and other grow. When I first sign up as a PA trainer 2 years back, I have the exact same views i.e. to give back what I learnt to the society and to make more friends within the local community. I paid so much to learn the technique of Crystal Jewellery application to mobile phones from a Master that came from the States. After I realised how simple it was, I decided that anyone should have a fair chance of knowing how to do that without having to pay that heftyprice! This was when I decided that I should inpart my knowledge to anyone who is keen to learn this skill and encourage them to set up their home business by doing “bling” mobile phones.

As my students will be able to enjoy further a subsidised rate when they used their PAssion Cards to sign up for my course, this was how I came to understand the concept of PAssion Card. With a similar thought for Delcie’s Desserts to foster a stronger relationship within the community and spread the word for our “Build A Cafe” project, we decided to ride on PAssion Card programmes and see how we can work out a win-win situation for the both of us.

I’ve met up with a few people for the past 2 months trying to understand how their promotion system works and what Delcie’s Desserts can offer to all Passion Card holders. In here, I would like to thank a few people.

Thank you Mdm Lam from Bishan Community Centre for being so friendly and nice!

Thank you Christine for meeting up with me to explain all about your PAssion Card programmes and referring Delcie’s Desserts to Jessie.

Last but not least, thank you Jessie for following up with me on how we can get onto the Bishan neighbourhood programmes.

A little background about PAssion Card…
“The PAssion Card is certainly more than just another membership or discount card. It serves the unique purpose of connecting you with your community by offering you a host of exciting and wholesome activities.”

To end, once our application with Passion Card is approved, we will be offering special discounts and delivery rates to all PAssion Card holders. So in order to benefit yourself while you enjoy our Delcie’s Desserts at a special member rate, sign up for Passion Card now to be part of the community at only $10 for 3 years subscription! Plus, you can earn linkpoints while you shop at NTUC Fairprice outlets.

Take care all and we really do hope our application will go through successfully. I will keep you all posted on the status!

In fact, if you were to ask me about the difference between a cupcake and a muffin, I would conclude that the proportion of the ingredients used in each cake is different; the texture is different, the sweetness content is different and the appearance is also different.

Generally, you will find muffins mostly in cafes. They are best eaten warm with butter and a cup of cuppa.

As for cupcakes, they are more fanciful and sweeter, mainly top with decorations and colourful frosting.

Let’s talk about the ingredients:

• They both uses same type of ingredients namely: butter, sugar, eggs, milk, flour and vanilla essence.
• Both require oven to bake
• The difference lies in the proportion of the ingredients in each cake.
• Muffins would require more air incorporated into the mixture for it to rise nicely. Baking powder is commonly used.
• More milk/liquid is also used in muffins to give a denser (heavier) texture.
• If you were to notice, muffins require twice the flour and lesser sugar content than cupcakes.

Cupcakes Ingredients:
100g Flour
75g Sugar
75g Butter
1 Egg
1-2 tbsp Fresh Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Essence

Muffins Ingredients (makes around 6 muffins):
200g Flour
50g Sugar
75g Butter
1 Egg
100-150ml Fresh Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 tsp Baking Powder

Instructions: Using a tablespoon, from the outside of the cake mixture, do a clock-wise scoop and cut through the cake mixture. Repeat until flour is evenly folded into the mixture.

Cheers,
Delcie

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Unfortunately, I had my wisdom tooth extracted earlier on in the afternoon.

Against all odds, I thought to myself, why don’t I bake muffins today? I need to do something to keep me distracted from the fact that I lost 2 teeth today.

So I came up with these cute little wonderful blueberry and banana muffins.

Like the cupcakes recipe which I blog about last week, these muffins are also easy to bake.

Muffins Ingredients (makes around 6 muffins):
200g Flour
50g Sugar
75g Butter
1 Egg
100-150ml Fresh Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 tsp Baking Powder

Banana Flavour:
1 piece of small banana, mashed

Blueberry Flavour:
Half cup of fresh blueberries.
Alternative: Half cup of defrosted blueberries, drain and dust with half tbsp of flour

Directions:

Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.

(1) Cream sugar and butter till creamy state.

(2) Beat eggs and vanilla essence till foam appears.
(3) Pour beaten eggs into eariler cream mixture gradually.
(4) Continue beating till all eggs are mixed into the cream mixture.

(5) Sieve flour and baking power together and add them gradually into above cream mixture.
(6) Using folding method, fold in all the flour mixture as you gradually pour it into the cream mixture.
(7) Slowly fold in milk until mixture form dropping consistency.
Folding method is extremely critical in ensuring all air are trapped in the mixture. Tomorrow, I will attached a video on my blog on how to fold flour into muffin mixture.

(8) Divide muffin mixture into half. Half for banana muffins and another half for blueberry muffins.

(9) Mash bananas with a fork.

(10) Fold in mashed bananas into half of the muffin mixture.

(11) Fold in blueberries into the other half of the muffin mixture.

(12) Scoop the mixture into muffin cups and put to bake for 20-30mins in middle row of oven at 180 degree Celsius.

(13) Bake till golden brown. Remove from oven and let it cool before serving.