For my 23rd birthday, Deer got me an oven. So for her 24th, I decided to bake her some "mooncakes" from scratch (no, not `scratch my darling cammie). Unfortunately, my cupcakes and muffins always have a problem rising evenly. And the paper cup always gets burnt somehow.

So pre-icing, this is how they looked.

Ta-da! After decorating them (and cutting off the burnt bits of paper cup), they look much better don't they? :)

I'd put them in a durian mooncake box, cut out the cover and stuck it onto the styrofoam box so when I met Deer, I told her that they were durian mooncakes I'd gotten for her to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. For a moment there, she really believed me. In fact, she seemed quite excited cos she'd heard the durian mooncakes were really good! And then I got abit freaked and called my own bluff worryin that she'll be disappointed to find that they're not durian mooncakes after all...

We ended up going upstairs to Sky Park to have the mooncakes. (Misunderstanding there cos she'd thought they were durian mooncakes so we couldn't have them indoors at the restaurant whilst I knew what they were and kept wondering why we couldn't have them indoors at Sushi Tei. Incidentally, why do I always meet with accidents at Sushi Tei? Once I went with muiz and the waitress spilt green tea on my feet. Another time we went to celebrate my birthday and this waitress dropped a plate and chips of it flew everywhere and we'd to be very careful where we stepped. And this time deer spilt her own green tea...wahaha. Mebbe I'm jinxed but I still love their sushi!)

Because I was such a klutz and kept swinging the box around while i walked, i kinda got the surprise messed up and had to get tissue from her to wipe off bits of the melted "durian" and ta-da, i finally presented them to her!

She looked more puzzled than anything, and scrutinized the cupcakes for a while. So I told her that there was Oreo flavour, vanilla & nutella flavour and she asked if the ones with yellow icing were durian-flavoured. Apparently she was still wondering if they were a new kind of mooncakes. Unfortunately, they were just plain ol' vanilla with yellow icing. (I'd bought 4 bottles of icing colour from PH because I didn't wanna buy so many cans of different icing. They looked like printer ink and my mum believed me when I said so :)

But she was too full from our late lunch so she didn't try any. And in the end, we got this! A real durian mooncake from Home's Favourites. Haha!

So there was mooncake after all. :)