♡ Cake Balls | Valentine's Day Treat / Gift Idea ft. Cluttered Rack♡

♥ Hello There Everyone! ♥  Valentine's Day is around the corner. Who says you need a boyfriend/girlfriend for Valentine's Day? Hahaha oh come on, its a day where you show how much you love somebody like your friends or even your family! So here i am today to show you how you can make Cake Balls for Valentine's Day! ^_^ It is really easy and it can also be a nice gift for someone you love!
It was initially a cake pop recipe but i couldn't find lollipop sticks nearby so i decided to change it to cake balls instead. It is exactly the same except using lollipop sticks for cake pops, you use cupcake liners instead for cake balls. And also, i did a small batch of this only for this blog post therefore its the reason why i used small portions of ingredients.
SOOOOO LETS GET STARTED!

♥ Ingredients/Things you will need:               ♥ Cake of any flavour you'd like, that have been baked according to a cake mix/boxed cake or from scratch.               ♥ Any flavour of frosting of your choice either from scratch or store bought.                ♥ White chocolate bars/candy melts/candy wafers               ♥ Red food colouring               ♥ Cupcake liners               ♥ Sprinkles or anything you'd like to use for decoration               ♥ A big mixing bowl               ♥ Toothpicks ( not in the photo because i forgot about it :P )
 ♥ STEP 1: Crumble up the cake into fine crumbs. I personally think using your hands is really the best way.

By fine crumbs, it should look like this.

 ♥ STEP 2: Add the frosting into the crumbs a little add a time.

Once again, best way is using your hands ^_^ But of course, don't forget to wash your nails thoroughly and cut your fingernails if you need to!

By adding the frosting a little at a time, you should reach the right consistency that can hold a a big ball shape.

 ♥ STEP 3: Roll out the cake mixture into balls.  After rolling out all of the cake balls, store them in the freezer for about an hour for it to firm.

♥ STEP 4:

While its in the fridge to firm, start melting your white chocolate.You can use candy melts/candy wafers instead but if you don't have them, white chocolate will do the trick too. If you are using white chocolate, break it into small bars for it to melt easily. 

Depending on your microwave, melt the chocolate using a microwave safe bowl in the microwave for about 30 seconds, stirring between each interval. Add vegetable shortening or vegetable oil little by little to adjust the texture. It should should be a little runny.

♥ STEP 5:

Take out the cake balls that have been sitting in the fridge. Insert toothpick to every cake ball.

The photo below showed some heart-shaped ones which i reshaped after taking photo of it in the earlier steps but you can do heart-shaped ones if you would like to! But bear in mind it cannot be placed into the cupcake liners so i suggest getting lollipop sticks and making it into cake pops instead! ^_^

♥ STEP 6:

Dip your cake balls into the white chocolate . Use a long cup to submerge the cake balls fully into the white chocolate to get it all coated. If you would like to, you can dye the white chocolate with red food colouring to make it pink for valentine's day. After dipping them, remove the toothpicks. When dipping the cake balls, let the excess drip off . I would've actually preferred to place it straight onto the cupcake liners after dipping because i think it would be hard to remove them from the plate once it has been harden, especially if you are not using wax paper. 

♥ STEP 7:

Add sprinkles and decoration to the cake balls. You can also even drizzle some chocolate on top. After that, leave it in the fridge to harden and set for hours. For as long as possible or even overnight is the best.

♥ STEP 8:

After its been out of the fridge for hours, remove it from the plate and place it onto the cupcake liners. Its quite difficult removing the cake balls from the plate as it might break (like it did for mine) that was why i suggested placing it straight onto the cupcake liners after dipping them in the chocolate.

♥ STEP 9: This step is optional but if you would like to give it to someone as a gift, place them into nice cute bags!

This is how it looks like when you bite into it. 

And there you go, how to make cake balls!

Pretty easy right? This is the first time I've made this so if i could do it, you can too! ^_^
Do tell me or show me a picture of your cake balls on my social medias/email if you've made it, i'd be so happy to see it!!
Anyways, this is collaboration with my friend Bridgitt from Cluttered Rack so click here to head down to her blog and check out her blog post where she will show you how you can make some cute valentine's day treats! ^_^
Feel free to ask me any questions or suggestions for my blog : ask.fm/winyyyxx / email me
Lookout for my next blog post on my Hong Kong Trip Day 3-5 with a vlog coming up! Talk to y'all on my next post, have a great day! ♥

Habitat Coffee

♥ Hello There Everyone! ♥  I went out last few weeks with my close friend, Bridgitt! ♥ I'll be separating my blog posts into two parts of the day and part 1 will be this, whereas part 2 will be about what i did that entire day at S.E.A Aquarium along with a vlog so keep a lookout for that! :D
We went to to Habitat Coffee café to have our brunch.

The café was fully crowded so we sat outside but it was fine as we actually wanted to sit outside at the very first place to take good lighting photos of the food HAHAHA!! 

Everything on their menu sounds so delicious i had a hard time choosing what i want >_<

I chose Eggs Benedict as i have never tried it before. Coincidentally Bridgitt wants Eggs Benedict too so we ordered the same thing. But that's not all, we also ordered Hello Truffle fries and shared it ^_^

• Eggs Benedict • [ Poached eggs & honey glazed ham on sundried tomato bread topped with homemade hollandaise sauce ]

The eggs benedict was really nice. Super in love with the salad by the side. The salad dressing is nice and sweet, extremely love it! The eggs are well cooked and the holladaise sauce is nice. But i think the sun dried tomato bread are a little bit too salty for my liking but overall it isn't that bad as you eat it along with the poached egg together with the hollandaise sauce :-) 

Best part for me was the yolk!! Who else loves runny egg yolk? I extremely love it!!

• Hello Truffle •

[ Truffle fries dressed with fine grated parmesan ]

Out of everything my favourite has to be the hello truffle fries!! So crispy and love the added grated parmesan. Love it when my fries are cripsy on the outside and really soft in the inside and that turned out the way i liked it ^_^ Really recommend you to try this out if you drop by!

Overall the food is nice and i would love to go back to try other food! ^_^

If you would like to check out Habitat Coffee, head down to:

223 Upper Thomson Road

Singapore 574335

Do check out their website for more infomation: www.habitatcoffee.com.sg

Can't wait to check out more cafés and blogging about it so be sure to look forward to more café reviews post! :D

Until next time, have a great day ahead! ♥

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Winnie In Hong Kong | • Day 1-2 •

♥ Hello There Everyone! ♥  Finally blogging about my trip to Hong Kong!! Sorry if i haven't been blogging for quite awhile, I've been so busy. But nevertheless, it's here now!
Wow i really miss Hong Kong!! :( I had such an amazing 5 Days trip in Hong Kong in the second week of December last year. It was my first time there and it was definitely a memorable one! Love the yummy food, the shopping, the cool weather and the buzzing streets of Hong Kong.
There will be lots and lots of pictures = a very long post, therefore i've split the posts into 2 parts 'Day 1-2' and 'Day 3-5'!
Click here to check out my Hong Kong blog post for Day 3-5! Don't forget to watch my Hong Kong Trip Day 1-5 Vlog at the end of this post!!

♥ Day 1 - Off To Hong Kong! ✈️ ♥ Went to Hong Kong with my family as well as my dad's friends and their family too. My flight was in the morning and i had to wake up super early >_< 

☁ LOOK AT THAT FLUFFY CLOUDS! ☁  "Inedible Cotton Candy" - said by my sister HAHAHA!

I sat in the middle right beside my sister and my mum. My dad had to sit at the seat right beside my mum on the other side :( 

Finally arrived in Hong Kong! My first impression when i arrived in Hong Kong was literally "WOW... I really didn't expect Hong Kong to be this cold." Hahaha i wish we had such nice weather like this in Singapore! The sky was foggy most probably due to the cold weather. ☁

We checked into our hotel but didn't went to our room yet because we were hungry hahahaha so we left our luggage with the hotel staffs and they kept it safely in a room for us. We then went to a nearby shop near our hotel for lunch!

Went back to our hotel! We had our stay at Regal Oriental Hotel in case you are wondering. Its a really nice hotel and amazing part for me its obviously the free-wifi HAHAHA! If you want to see how the whole room looks like, i have a hotel room tour in my vlog ^_^

Had our rest in our hotel for a bit and went to explore the streets of Hong Kong in the evening. One thing that amazed me about Hong Kong is that the sun sets really early like 5pm! The sky at 5pm looks like the sky at 7pm in Singapore hahaha!!

We went to Ladies Market and did a little bit of shopping too!

Off for dinner at a Chinese Restaurant.

♥ Day 2 - Disneyland "The Happiest Place In The World!" ♥

Finally, the day i was looking forward to the most! We had buffet for breakfast at the hotel and it was amazing!! Love the waffle and croissant!

After breakfast, off to Disneyland! "The happiest place in the world!" - literally. Everything is so cute in Disneyland and i just love the atmosphere and all the fun rides!! I'm such a small little kid at heart.

Bought a super cute Minnie Ears Headband!! Hahaha I became Minnie for a day and guess what, Minnie-Winnie, sounds the same HAHAHA!

Disneyland Map!

Rode the rides in Disneyland with my sister and Marilyn ^_^ 

The first ride we rode was the UFO ride!

After UFO ride, we were hungry so all of us went to grab something to eat. I went to the nearest stall and ordered like a chili hot dog bun, i can't remember what they called it hahaha. We also ordered some drinks!

Next we went to 'Space Mountain'! Its a rollercoaster ride in the dark. It felt like i was really in space!! It was so fast and its one of my most favourite ride in Disneyland, it was so fun!! I couldn't take a lot of photos because it was really dark in there :(

Went to 'Autopia' after that! I got the first car and i had to drive along the pavement only so if i don't move fast, the cars behind won't be able to move too. So, i had to drive quite fast despite my terrible driving skills hahaha!

After Autopia, we were wandering around looking for other interesting rides and my dad called to me from afar and told us that there is a parade going on soon. We heard from the speaker that the 'Flights Of Fantasy' parade is starting in 5 minutes so we went to join the crowd.

Finally it started! ^_^

The parade is so fun to watch, the Flights Of Fantasy theme song is super cute!! 

We headed off to 'Its A Small World' after that.

It was so cool as they played 'Its A Small World' song in different languages!

We went to Toy Story Land afterwards. I personally think Toy Story Land is the cutest part in Hong Kong Disneyland, its so cute and colourful!

Look, its Andy's Toy Box in the Toy Story movie! They designed it into a shop, how cool!!

How cute is this popsicle sticks bench?! 

Rode 'Slinky Dog Spin'!

The speed of the ride was faster than i thought it would be hahaha!

We wanted to ride the RC Racer but kept hesitating as it looked really scary hahaha!! Its U-shaped and its really high. I kind of regret now that i didn't try it :(

Next up, we went to Adventure Land!

Rode 'Mystic Manor'. Its so funny because we didn't know what that was that and just went in with the crowd. Found out later that it was like a ride on a story of a monkey where it shows us around his house which was a museum i think?? Hahaha anways, we sat in a cup-like thing which automatically moves in the dark. Couldn't snap much photos because it was so dark!

But here's a photo before we went in, sorry for the blur photo :(

And finally , here's the ride i think was one of the best in Hong Kong Disneyland!!

'Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars'

It was so fast and thrilling and best part was when it drove backwards up from the "mountain" really fast!

Sadly, it was also the last ride i took in Hong Kong Disneyland as it was getting dark and my family wants to go off for dinner but i'm glad i ended the day at Disneyland with a really fun ride!

Not only that, i also ended the day with Cotton Candy! What is a day at a theme park without cotton candy right? Super cool as the stick can be used as a lightstick after you're done eating the cotton candy. 

Whats more, the lady was really nice and friendly too! ^_^

I was a little sad because we couldn't stay longer for the fireworks tho :(

Disneyland was so fun, i had such a magical time!!

Anyways, we headed off for dinner afterwards and i rode the MTR for the first time ever. And for the first time ever, it was the Disneyland mickey mouse MTR only found in Disneyland station!

AHHHHH HOW CUTE IS THE TRAIN?!?! 

We had like a Hong Kong style steeamboat for dinner. First, you eat the chicken dish. Once you're done they'll pour the broth in and add sausages, fishcakes, vegetables etc. and it turned into a steamboat! 

The grilled pineapples are seriously soooooo good!!

We went to 7-eleven which was nearby our hotel to grab some snacks for the night!

Here's what we got from 7-eleven:

I hope i'm not the only one but who else loves exploring mini mart, supermaket or any kind of shops selling snacks whenever you travel? I love it especially when you see things you can't find in your country! I saw so many things in 7-eleven that i don't think i can find it here in Singapore.

This oreo brownie caught my eyes and i don't think they have it in Singapore so i bought it to give it a try. It is amazing!! Hahaha and i couldn't resist but to buy my favourite korean ice creams too!!

One thing that shocked me was that in Hong Kong you have to pay for the plastic bags too :(

Ate some snacks, chill on my bed, watched TV in our hotel room for awhile and then i took a really nice hot bath!

Here's a vlog that i did on my whole trip in Hong Kong! :

Hong Kong Vlog by winniewinyyy

Click here to check out my Hong Kong blog post for Day 3-5!

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Till then, take care y'all!! ♡♡♡