Gluten & Grain free cupcakes with honey-ed lavender & strawberry cashew cream

This week's new workouts that I tried :)

Train Insane HIIT Workout!

For some reason, I can't seem to embed blogilates' new video here. But it's ok, there's the link and judging from the title, you should know what it is. It is a HIIT workout. Not the toughest from her that I've done, but worked me up a sweat in no time.

And then there was:

Brazilian Booty Burn Workout: Burn to the Beat- Keaira LaShae

To feed my obessesion with building a bigger butt. It felt more like a regular dance cardio workout and I am thankful that I do most of my exercises in the comfort of my home because no one would want to watch me try to keep up with this lady and her dance moves. I'm terrible at keeping with dance cardios. This is one of the easiest ones that I've done. Although I love the idea of dance cardio, but my body just CANNOT COORDINATE FAST ENOUGH. 

The next cardio workout I tried was:

30 Day Fat Burn: Cardio Crush Workout by BeFit

I still prefer doing a set by set, rep by rep kind of workout. This one was pretty good. It was easy to follow, simple enough moves, worked me up a good sweat too. I'll probably fit this into days where I just have to work one part of my body. A little cardio to supplement spot toning!

I got these bright coloured cupcake liners recently. They make me want to bake all the time! I've always been a little skeptical about plastic products and heat but these babies can withstand up to 200deg celsius. Pretty cool huh? 

Spinach, tuna and cheese frittata that i made the other day, so prettyyy

Compared to regular paper liners, removing these plastic liners is like dream. It came off so easily my jaw dropped. So if you hate the annoying problem of food sticking to cupcake liners, this is a great option.

I was experimenting again and want to try to make some kidney bean cupcakes with lavender & strawberry cashew cream cheese. This time tweaking the recipe a little but replacing cocoa powder with 'coconut flour' (grinded from dessicated coconut). 

Little kidney bean cupcake babies in-the-baking.

These cashew nuts are gonna be soaked overnight, blended honey, lavender, and 4 microwaved strawberries to make lavender strawberry cashew cream .

Finally, the cupcake is born! 

The addition of 'coconut flour' did help to fluff up the batter a little so its starting to taste more like a regular cake, without all the nasties :)

Cheers to healthy cupcakes :D

CAVALIA & Food & New workout review!

Hi Fluffies, 

First things first, new workout review!

Cardio Butt Buster - Fat blasting cardio workout to lose belly fat by Fitness Blender:

I wanted to do something new today so I decided on something that would relate to my legs and butt.. Because BOOTY that's whyyy. This workout is not very hard to do. For me, Fitness blender's workouts have always been quite manageable.. I don't really feel like I am dying and severely out of breath after finishing their workouts. This was no exception, BUT their workouts are definitely effective. Add this to your workout for a little extra bit of cardio and butt work :)

Thanks to my boyfriend, we got to watch Cavalia at MBS today! The show was a great display of the horses and strangely casual and comical in a way. Both my boyfriend and I agreed that we would love to take the derp-iest horse home. I think we could feel the natural obedience from ethical domestication of the horses that we left the show feeling happy. 

My very awkward pose with the tickets because I'm really bad at posing.

Shopping arena selling plush toys horsies for crazy prices. 

Boyfriend posing with the awesome popcorn which we finished before the first quarter of the show haha (no he didn't gain weight, its just camera angle) 

Magical settings galore..

Yesterday, we tried Merely's ice cream for the first time. We ordered a scoop of pandan gula melaka and a scoop of chocolate stout. Ice cream wise, Merely's 1, Creamier 0. Waffle wise, Creamier wins handsdown. 

I really wanted to bake so did some experiments in the kitchen and made some gluten/grain free cupcakes! Since embarking on this journey to better health and weight management, I've realised that cutting out refined carbs and processed foods from daily diet is definitely the way to go. Very often I get asked 'What do you eat then?'. I do eat refined carbs and processed foods nearly everyday. But these constitute approximately 20% to 30% of my daily intake. Sometimes a little bit more, sometimes a little bit less. It's definitely hard for me to cut out carbs and sweets because I LOVE DESSERTS. So I try my best to healthify whatever I can while not compromising on getting my 'desserts'

Brownie cupcake and Vanilla cupcake with Strawberry cheese cream 

 These are gluten/grain free, high protein, zero added fat, and TASTY :P But I'm still working on making the vanilla cupcake less moist as it is a little too fudgy to feel like a regular cupcake. Hopefully I will figure out the best healthified cupcake :)

Happy Eats Happy Girl.

Hi Fluffies, 

It's been a while. I'm finally done with school submissions and in the mood to blog again haha. Recently, its been alot of school work, part time job and eating and chinatown (Ahbubu & I love Chinatown) hahaha. I supposed its a fruitful few weeks too since I've discovered some pretty awesome food because one of my favourite things to do is... EAT. EATING, Makes me happy :)

It's crazy how fast mid-autumn festival came and went. Did you have a great time eating mooncakes like I did? My sweetheart bought me mid-autumn festival inspired crodos from Da paolo gastronomia and it was awesome! Albeit SINFUL. My god, the white lotus paste in it was so smooth.

The one with green flowers was filled with golden custard (it tasted more like cheese though). If you are familiar with liu sha bao (I'll have you know that my favourite is from Hua Ting restaurant), you will understand why we had to try this. It was nice but not amazing. 

Whereas the one with the pink flowers, it was wonderful :) Smooth white lotus paste (pronounced as Lian Rong) with fried croissant, does that sound like a ring of heart attack to you already? But it's good for the soul baby. 

My prince ahbubu goofing around XD

We took a walk along the mid-autumn festival market at chinatown and bought putu piring. SO AWESOME. It's right in front of the very commercialised food market.. doubt u can miss it lol.

And more desserts for us at one of my favourite chinese dessert places, Tong Shui Desserts @ people's park complex. 

After everything, we went for a stroll along the riverside to boat quay. Its a rabbit for me and a rooster for my boyfriend this year!

 About 2 days ago, to celebrate my final submission, Ahbubu and I went to have MA LA XIANG GUO at people's park complex. I LOVE MA LA XIANG GUO. I love me an epic bowl of hot spicy veges and I'll take it anytime :)

 This ma la xiang guo is one of the first few stalls to be set up here and its definitely wayyyyy cheaper than the ones you find at food courts. Compared to this, those are absolute rip offs. I can't really remember the name of the stall we went to, but after some search online, I'm pretty sure we went to the one called 'Ri Ri Hong'.

Just kidding, it wasn't even that spicy because we ordered a 'xiao la'(Minimum Spiciness level) We're definitely gonna try the medium spiciness next time.

And howwwww can we miss the Gula Melaka Ice kachang at Chinatown's hawker food centre??? If you love ice kachang, you have to try this local traditional version from An Ji Xiang Hua Ice Jelly. 

Okay so this is not from Chinatown, but Pita Pan Marina Square. One of my favourite Mediterranean vegetarian place with awesome hummus and sweet potato fries :3 We got a groupon voucher with a value of $30 so we decided to head there today (Right after llao llao. WHY.) We both agreed that it's probably better to be here after on an empty stomach hahaha 

Couldn't stomach the amount of sin on my tray so today ended with some blogilates butt work and tea :)