On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
I'm not very keen on desserts. I know, I know. I'm that one weird person who doesn't like sweets and skips on dessert menus at restaurants. Nonetheless, Valentine's week gave me all the sweet vibes that got me motivated to bake something and to celebrate our anniversary with something sweet. I may not love sweets but W does have a sweet tooth 🍫.
Ingredients:
- Flour, 35g
- Sugar, 20g
- Baking soda, 1 pinch
- Godiva cocoa powder, 15g
- Salt, 1 pinch
- 1% milk, 90ml
- Lemon, 1 light squeeze
- Vanilla essence, 1 teaspoon
- Olive oil, 2 tablespoons
- Christmas mint chocolate, broken into smaller pieces for topping/decoration
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F and grease two ramekins (used olive oil for grease).
- Whisk together all the liquids in a bowl and set the bowl aside.
- Whisk together all the powder (everything that's non-liquid) in a different bowl. Nicknamed as the "dry bowl."
- Whisking the ingredients inside the liquid bowl while pouring the mixture from the "dry bowl," and whisk until everything looked well mixed together.
- Gently pour the batter into the ramekins.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle crumbled mint chocolates. Let the brownie cakes chill for a few minutes then serve!
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| Poured just about a bit less than the half-full mark. I was worried about the batter overflowing so I placed a baking sheet underneath the ramekins. |
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| After 30 minutes of baking. They looked alright 💜 |
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| The Christmas mint chocolate crumbles made these brownie cakes look more festive 😄 |
The pears were so good. I didn't know I could love eating pears that much. They were so juicy, sweet, and just a great delightful treat. We had to tell ourselves to slow down so we didn't finish them all in 1 day.
February is almost over.
Wishing everyone's February end with lots of love, peace, and joy!
💗 CM
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