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Simple Carrot Muffins for Your Love Ones…
INTRODUCTION
This is a simple carrot muffin with cream cheese frosting. It is simple and quick to do without the need to use any mechanical beaters or mixers and animal fats. Therefore it a rather healthy breakfast item or tea time item. The simple cream cheese frosting (optional) will help to smoothen the texture and enhance the taste of the muffins.
WHAT IS REQUIRED
The measurement below can make about 8-9 medium size muffins of about 120g each.
For carrot muffins
- 150 g of grated carrots
- 75 g of raisins
- 75 g of chopped walnuts or chopped almonds or any nuts (optional)
- 180 g of white caster sugar
- 125 g of cooking oil
- 3 eggs
- 320 g of self raising flours
- 2 teaspoons of mixed spice (optional)
- 2 teaspoons of grounded ginger (optional)
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder (optional)
- 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate
- 0.5 teaspoon of baking powder (optional)
For cream cheese frostings
- 125 g of cream cheese
- 50 g of icing sugar
STEPS OF PREPARATION
Carrot Muffins
- Preheat oven to moderate 180 degree Celsius and get ready 9 medium sized muffin cups.
- In a mixing bowl, place carrots, raisins, almonds and sugar and lightly mixed it.
- In another mixing bowl, place the oil and egg together. Whisk the liquid mixture until mix.
- Place the dry mixtures (carrots, raisins, almonds and sugar) into the whisked liquid mixture and until well mixed.
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Add the sifted flour, sodium bicarbonate, baking powder, spices (cinnamon or spice mix (optional)) into the liquid mixture.
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Combined lightly with wooden spoon or metal spoon and well mixed.
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Scoop out the mixture into the muffin cups about 3/4 full and baked for about 30 minutes or until skewer come out clean.
Cream Cheese Frostings
- Using electric beaters, beat the cream cheese and sugar until light and creamy.
- Spread on top of the muffins or pump on top of the muffins if desired.
- Dust with cinnamon or color sugar crystals (optional).
- Served with addition cream cheese frosting, when necessary.
CONCLUSION:
- This pastry can be as healthy as you want it to be. Cooking oil are generally considered as healthier alternative as compared to animal fats such as butter.
- Suggested frosting of cream cheese (which is optional if you are health conscious) will make the muffins even smoother and blend well with the taste.
- It is easy and simple to make as there is no need to use any mechanical equipment.
- Cost of preparing these muffins are relatively lower than other cup cakes since only very basic ingredients will be used.
Hope you like this simple muffin and simple post. Have a nice day and happy reading.
Do You Love Me！ 你爱我吗？
I love plants. When I drove or when I strolled in the park or even around the neighborhood, I will always be amazed by the various shapes and styles that plants have chosen to present themselves for purposes of reproduction. I am sharing with readers some of the photos that I have taken around my neighborhood and around the net and hope that you can draw your own inspirations from the photos below
Today’s pictures are compiled from my trip to Singapore’s Garden By the Bay. If you visit Singapore, please ensure that this is one of your destination.
Hai, Malaysian, South Koreans and Haitians, my family, hibiscus is your countries’ national flower emblem. Do you know all our families’ relatives. Look, these are my cousins currently lucky enough to live in Garden by the Bay. They are well fed and therefore they are able to afford beautiful cloths and see, they are so fat! It really make me jealous..
马来西亚人看到大红花或木槿花已经麻木不仁了，向小朋友手掌一样大的木槿花，你是否会从新珍惜及爱我呢？
The above are hibiscuses that have ever mentioned in my posts. In the left picture, A is South Korea’s national flower – Hibiscus Syriacus (Mugunghwa); B for Rosella drink – Hibiscus Sabadriffa (Roselle or Rosella); C is Malaysia’s national flower – Hibiscus Sinensis.
Hi, beautiful ladies, I know you like to put your nose near me to appreciate our fragrance, thank you very much! I am sorry my ancestors wants me to have stigma hanging down causing you inconveniences to appreciate me. Will you still love me when I have such an awkward posture?
我家族就是要我们把柱头向下垂。你还爱我吗？
We are just tiny flowers squatting near corners of the walls. Sir, madam, can you please “donate” some love to me.
我知道人类都喜欢大又美的富贵花朵。像我这样的墙角野花，谁会喜欢？先生，太太，你们可以爱我吗？
Hey, above, all of you are so self centered, that’s why nobody will ever love you. Look at us, we worked as a group, we go out together, we wear the same clothes and therefore we are definitely more presentable than you lonely little flowers! Sir, Madam, I know you will agree with what I said and shower me with your loves!
楼上的，团结才是力量！我和我的兄弟姐妹共同进出，穿同样的衣服，互相合作，我们肯定比你们更加出色。先生太太有把握你们一定会喜欢我们并给予最多的爱！
We succulents, are hard to bear flowers. We believed we are beautiful enough. We don’t need flowers to reproduce and I refused to disclose our family secrets of reproduction. You human being, only like flowers. Look at us, our juicy leaves are even more beautiful than their flowers. Sir, come here and have a closer look at us, sure you will love us!
花花花，每天心里就只有花！！我们的叶子就比其他的花来的漂亮! 先生，请你靠近我一点，仔细地看，轻轻地摸，我相信你一定会爱上我们！来啊！
Hey, don’t touch us! We are nice to see but definitely not nice to touch! Sir, sorry, we have selected these thorny clothes to protect our own self. Sir, do you agree that we are still beautiful with these thorns? You will not change your loves to us right? Will you?
先生，现在色狼很多，我妈叫我要懂得照顾自己，所以我们就选择了有刺的衣服。其实也是挺漂亮的，你同意吗？你爱我吗？
Go and asked my mum why she want to born me with these funny shapes! It wouldn’t affect your love to me, right? Will it?
不要再问我了，去问我妈为什么她要把我生成这样的外表！这会影响你对我的爱吗？
Happy reading.
Love and Relationship
- Intimacy (亲密关系) : Feelings of attachment, closeness, typified by sharing secrets, etc.
- Passion (激情的爱) : Feelings of sexual and romantic attraction.
- Commitment (承诺义务之爱): A willingness in the short-term to create and maintain a relationship and long-term plans to sustain the relationship.
- Nonlove（零爱或没爱） “refers simply to the absence of all three components of love. Nonlove characterizes the large majority of our personal relationships, which are simply casual interactions.”
- Liking/friendship （喜爱／友情） is “used here in a nontrivial sense. Rather, it refers to the set of feelings one experiences in relationships that can truly be characterized as friendship. One feels closeness, bondedness, and warmth toward the other, without feelings of intense passion or long-term commitment.”
- Infatuated love （迷恋，痴情）: “Infatuation results from the experiencing of passionate arousal in the absence of intimacy and decision/commitment…like Tennov’s limerance .” Romantic relationships often start out as infatuated love and become romantic love as intimacy develops over time. Without developing intimacy or commitment, infatuated love may disappear suddenly.
- Empty love (空虚的爱) is characterized by commitment without intimacy or passion. A stronger love may deteriorate into empty love. In an arranged marriage, the spouses’ relationship may begin as empty love and develop into another form, indicating “how empty love need not be the terminal state of a long-term relationship…[but] the beginning rather than the end.”
- Romantic love （浪漫爱情） “derives from a combination of the intimate and passionate components of love…romantic lovers are not only drawn physically to each other but are also bonded emotionally”- bonded both intimately and passionately, but without sustaining commitment.
- Companionate love (伴侣式的爱情） is an intimate, non-passionate type of love that is stronger than friendship because of the element of long-term commitment. “This type of love is observed in long-term marriages where passion is no longer present” but where a deep affection and commitment remain. The love ideally shared between family members is a form of companionate love, as is the love between close friends who have a platonic but strong friendship.
- Fatuous love (愚昧的爱） can be exemplified by a whirlwind courtship and marriage – “fatuous in the sense that a commitment is made on the basis of passion without the stabilizing influence of intimate involvement.”
- Consummate love (完美之爱）is the complete form of love, representing an ideal relationship toward which people strive. Of the seven varieties of love, consummate love is theorized to be that love associated with the “perfect couple.” According to Sternberg, these couples will continue to have great sex fifteen years or more into the relationship, they cannot imagine themselves happier over the long-term with anyone else, they overcome their few difficulties gracefully, and each delight in the relationship with one other. However, Sternberg cautions that maintaining a consummate love may be even harder than achieving it. He stresses the importance of translating the components of love into action. “Without expression,” he warns, “even the greatest of loves can die.” Thus, consummate love may not be permanent. If passion is lost over time, it may change into companionate love.
*****As a side note, my issue with this is that I don’t agree that everyone’s “perfect love” is consummate love. On the contrary many people have many different ideas of what the perfect relationship for them is. Also, sex or “passion” is not always the best part of any relationship, and there are people who don’t want or need to have sex to have a happy healthy relationship and this marginalizes those people. I think this is a good chart with interesting classifications, but an inaccurate idea of what the most “perfect love” is.
An interesting post about relationship to share with all of you. The diagram depicts the TRIANGLE OF LOVE and I personally concurred with what the above blogger have said: sex and passions are not the most important factors in a healthy relationship. Ask what will happen if your partner is injured in an accident and unable to have sexual intimacy for the rest of her/his life, are you going to leave her/him? Note that the Chinese terms were interpreted by me for your easier visualization the love process.
