Muffins Dedication for Hari Raya..
Friday, 26. September 2008, 05:24:24
Oki, so here's the story about my first Ramadan charity tingy 
.
This year my company introduced a program called CSR ( Corporate Social Responsibility ). It's a program that gives back to the community in any form affordable. Service, time, help, money, education, food, clothes.. anything at all. The program encourages all staff to get involve and give what they can. It's very good because at first people felt 'forced' to do it/get involve but once they started, they realised that they enjoy it and ended up giving more.
There are a lot of programs organized under CSR and I'm involved in this one particular program this Ramadan. It's a program to celebrate and help orphanages at 2 orphanage houses, in this festive season. Food stocks were delivered to them houses. Tonight there's gonna be a dinner with them with angpau give away.
To do all those of course requires a certain amount of fund. I'm involved in one of the activities for fund raising, which is Muffins Dedications for Hari Raya. Remember back then when we were kids at school, there were dedications of everything to our friends? Burgers, flowers, chocolates and etc. Well, we brought it back by organizing muffins dedications.. but among staff in this 2 towers only . We got worry that our 'delivery people' go straight home after delivering to other far places 
. Nah.. it's just because it's easier to handle if just within these towers 
.
For baking and muffins packaging, the people behind them are Put, Usop and me. Put 's in charge of the packaging decorations. I'm in charge of baking them muffins. Usop.. well he's in charge of other things like driving us to go buy containers, ribbons and such.. and of course, carrying them.
At first the order for muffins was 300++. I was thinking, I could bake them during the weekends then. Then the order went up to 500. I was thinking "Damn, with my small oven.. there's no way I could bake them all in time". Then final order is 678 muffins!
I told my mother to borrow 2 ovens from her friends. I was thinking baking with 3 ovens is at least acceptably fast.. and then my uncle came out with a brilliant idea. Bake them muffins using my late aunt's oven!
. She had this huge oven she used when she had a bakery. I was so relief!
So last weekend De and me baked them muffins at my aunt's house. My uncle came over to help us to adjust this and that, and showed us how to use the huge mixer too. So it began. We started baking on Sunday morning around 9.30 am, non stop until 4 pm. The oven could fit 60 muffins at one time, so we had to be fast mixing and piping the dough into the cups. It was EXHAUSTING! But it was fun!
Here are the testing batch..
De really helped me. If I was to do it alone, I would have fainted just looking at the sight of the muffins flour packets. We managed to baked around 540 muffins. I borrowed the bread stacks from my uncle ( he works at Gardenia ) and we loaded them stacks in my car. 1 stack contained 100 muffins.
Delivery was made on Monday. Since we didn't get to bake the total order, I had to bake the balance here at my apartment, using my small oven that can fit 12 muffins at one time. I took 3 days to finish baking them all, taking the ones I baked the night before to the office the next day for delivery. Well I took 3 days because by the time I got home from work, it's 6pm ++ already. By the time the last batch gets in my small oven, it's 11pm ++ already .
If you ask me, would I do this again next year? Well my answer is yes. But of course.. with a much more PROPER plan and execution!
.This year my company introduced a program called CSR ( Corporate Social Responsibility ). It's a program that gives back to the community in any form affordable. Service, time, help, money, education, food, clothes.. anything at all. The program encourages all staff to get involve and give what they can. It's very good because at first people felt 'forced' to do it/get involve but once they started, they realised that they enjoy it and ended up giving more.
There are a lot of programs organized under CSR and I'm involved in this one particular program this Ramadan. It's a program to celebrate and help orphanages at 2 orphanage houses, in this festive season. Food stocks were delivered to them houses. Tonight there's gonna be a dinner with them with angpau give away.
To do all those of course requires a certain amount of fund. I'm involved in one of the activities for fund raising, which is Muffins Dedications for Hari Raya
. Remember back then when we were kids at school, there were dedications of everything to our friends? Burgers, flowers, chocolates and etc. Well, we brought it back by organizing muffins dedications.. but among staff in this 2 towers only . We got worry that our 'delivery people' go straight home after delivering to other far places . Nah.. it's just because it's easier to handle if just within these towers .For baking and muffins packaging, the people behind them are Put, Usop and me. Put 's in charge of the packaging decorations. I'm in charge of baking them muffins. Usop.. well he's in charge of other things like driving us to go buy containers, ribbons and such.. and of course, carrying them
.At first the order for muffins was 300++. I was thinking, I could bake them during the weekends then. Then the order went up to 500. I was thinking "Damn, with my small oven.. there's no way I could bake them all in time". Then final order is 678 muffins!
I told my mother to borrow 2 ovens from her friends. I was thinking baking with 3 ovens is at least acceptably fast.. and then my uncle came out with a brilliant idea. Bake them muffins using my late aunt's oven!
. She had this huge oven she used when she had a bakery. I was so relief! So last weekend De and me baked them muffins at my aunt's house. My uncle came over to help us to adjust this and that, and showed us how to use the huge mixer too. So it began. We started baking on Sunday morning around 9.30 am, non stop until 4 pm. The oven could fit 60 muffins at one time, so we had to be fast mixing and piping the dough into the cups. It was EXHAUSTING! But it was fun!
Here are the testing batch..
De really helped me. If I was to do it alone, I would have fainted just looking at the sight of the muffins flour packets
. We managed to baked around 540 muffins. I borrowed the bread stacks from my uncle ( he works at Gardenia ) and we loaded them stacks in my car. 1 stack contained 100 muffins. Delivery was made on Monday. Since we didn't get to bake the total order, I had to bake the balance here at my apartment, using my small oven that can fit 12 muffins at one time
. I took 3 days to finish baking them all, taking the ones I baked the night before to the office the next day for delivery. Well I took 3 days because by the time I got home from work, it's 6pm ++ already. By the time the last batch gets in my small oven, it's 11pm ++ already .If you ask me, would I do this again next year? Well my answer is yes. But of course.. with a much more PROPER plan and execution!
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