Fruity Tooty You Tea Party

Today was a complete mad rush, but an exhilarating one for that matter. Woke up early to make the necessary preparations..

I'm koping an apple dice from the applestew, which turned out a bit too sweet even though I already cut back on the sugar. Ignore the tatty old OBS tee, and check out the mole on my neck (right below my ear)! I only noticed its existence about a week or so ago.

We scooped the applestew into little cupcake containers that had strawberries on them (keeping up with the fruity tooty theme). Then we topped them off with yummy breadcrumby crumble. We were worried that there would not be enough ingredients to fill the container, but the portions turned out all right in the end. Due to unintentional negligence, some of the crumble-tops burnt while baking in the oven. But we managed to save them with a fork and some nifty fork handling skills.

Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies, made prior to the mad rush, from a modification of Eggy's recipe. Evelyn made her thumbprints, quite possibly with her thumbprints.


Vanilla mini-cupcakes from Evelyn's tried-and-tested recipe, baking in the oven. They look so perfect and cute here.

Not so cute here while cooling on the wire rack...Some of the cupcakes overflowed their liners, some exploded..

...but luckily, we have frosting to cover up cupcake mishaps. The frosting tasted slightly odd but the taste was masked by the cupcake itself.

Pastry-chef at work.

Mini-cupcake topped with frosting and kiwi chunk; and thumb.

For the lunchbreak, we whipped up Mushroom and Ham Pasta, with macaroni, campbell's Mushroom Potage and ham from the fridge.

Flying fringe makes an appearance.

The complete spread!

Fruity Tooty Menu includes:

• Dragonfruit & Honey


• Raspberry Thumbprints


• Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies


• Apple Crumble


• Fruity Tooty Cupcakes




• Peaches


• Bananas & Peaches
  
• Kiwis


• Golden Kiwis


• Dried Apricots


• Cherries
  


• Fruity Tooty Platter, with Chocolate Fondue




• Apples


• Dried Apricots


• Kiwis


• Bananas
  
• Cherries
  


• Raisin Scones


• Tea: Lipton's Raspberry, Cranberry & Strawberry and Lipton's Lemongrass & Ginger


• Lemon slices for the tea

Notice that everything has fruit in it.

We thought the scones were plain, and the apple crumble, too sweet. But strangely, no one complained and everyone loved the scones. The downside was that the chocolate wouldn't melt in the burner...

Then people started trickling in...Iris was too early. Everyone was sporting and came in their respective fruits! (Iris as Grapes, Amy as Banana, Beatrice as Mangosteen, Xinqin as Watermelon, Evelyn chew as Strawberry, Evelyn as Dragonfruit and Me as Durian) Sarah was blur and came dressed as A fruit, instead of YOUR fruit. So she wore an orangey top and cherry earrings.

It was a fun day...Talking about everything from dog menstruations to SMU frustrations.

Before I forget, these were the invites we sent out! Beautifully coloured, eh?


Then we posted them in urgent-looking envelopes, with typed labels (with full names) for a nice scare. They were supposed to look like they were posted by NUS or something...