THANK YOU!

My busiest December ever! Not about my work tho, but more on my baking life.  

I was asked by my friends to open Christmas cake order since last November, I was a bit reluctant at first because I don't have any more work leave.  I like to plan my baking time management so that I can concentrate without worrying tiny problem...

And boom, I must say I'm so blessed to get a lot of orders... Thank you all! Also not forgetting my kitchen helper; le hubby for his support and staying up late with me to finish the orders... ^_^

Here are some of the cake shots that I managed to take for my collection:

Butter Cakes, Red Velvet Cakes/Cuppies & Choc Moist Cakes

Fruit cakes

Aaah I Miss...

Baking... actually!

But wait, actually I did bake last two (2) weeks ago adeh totally forgot!

Among all the cakes that I ever made, am so wanted to bake Tiramisu and Lemon Meringue Pie/Cake.  For the pie, I think I need to buy a new oven; the one at home the timer button is not functioning anymore, so another reason to get one ^_^

TOO occupied with work and exam hinder me to take orders from my friends... Thousand apologies ok!  I will let you guys know when I am available :)

While browsing my cake picture folders, I found this Tiramisu cake I did for my friend last year... Makes me wanna bake it summore hahaha

T.I.R.A.M.I.S.U 

Hmmm... I will make the time... Confession of A Bakerholic aha!  Cheers!

No - Bake Cookies & Cream Cheesecake

I've been collecting a lot of this recipe since I started my baking life.  The process more or less are the same.  Last Saturday, I can't help myself to resist the urge of baking so I made my second cheesecake with Oreo cookies :)

First time using this recipe by Baking Mum and originally by Kraft and I modified the recipe a bit

Recipe:

01. 1 cup crushed Oreo Double Stuff (remove the cream inside)

02. 50gm melted butter

Combine the crumbs and butter and press into a line 23cm springform pan and chill

03. 500gm cream cheese (this time I used Philadelphia), in room's temperature

04. 70gm castor sugar

05. 3 teaspoons of gelatine, dissolved in 60ml boiling water

06. 2 tablespoons of lemon juice (usually I use Lazy Lime brand)

07. 250ml whipping cream (Anchor), lightly whipped

08. 50gm Oreo Double Stuff, roughly chopped

Beat the cream cheese and sugar till silky smooth.  Fold in the gelatine mixture, lemon juice, whipping cream and roughly chopped Oreo cookies.  To make the cake more delicious, add in the left over cookies' cream into the mixture.  Pour the mixture into the chilled and prepared crust and chill another 1 hour

09. 100gm Oreo Double Stuff, crushed

Sprinkle with extra crushed cookies as topping and chill for at least 3 hours or until set.  I did mine for one night

Here's the result:

Just out from fridge

Can I offer you a slice of cheesecake? :)

The cake is much better than my first recipe more creamy and Oreolicious summore... plus the process is not difficult... Happy trying! ^_^

My First Steamed Blueberry Cheesecake

Woah am back in track! I mean baking track :)

For last two weeks, I had been baking and seriously it was a GREAT feeling! Hah, talking about stress reliever here...

I have always wanted to try something different in baking cheesecakes, you know, usually the process is either water bath baked or chilled one.  But, steaming cheesecake?  Curiosity got the better of me and why not I give it a try then...

Steamed Blueberry Cheesecake (I got the recipe from Suzette Cooks)

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Ingredients:

01. 500gm cream cheese ( I love to use Anchor brand)

02. 100gm castor sugar

03. 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence

04. 200ml Whipping Cream (another Anchor brand)

04. 4 nos eggs

05. 300gm Blueberry filling 

06. 1 tbsp lemon juice

Method:

01. Cream cheese and sugar till smooth

02. Fold in eggs, Vanilla essence and whipping cream.  Mix till smooth 

03. Pour into 8 inches round or square cake tin

04. Pour the Blueberry filing in pan and add in the lemon juice.  Stir together about a minute.  Pour half of the  filling into the cheese mixture, stir with a chopstick to create marble effect.  Reserve the other half of jam as topping decor

05. Steam the mixture for 2 hours under low heat (after water is boiled)

06. To avoid water sipping in, cling wrap the cake tin 3 times tightly.  And hubby did a good job in this, thanks dear :*

07. Cake is cooked, if the surface is firm to touch and shrink from the sides

08. After cooled, chill in the fridge for at least 1/2 hour before decorating.  I let it chilled for 3 hours

09. For the decor, just spread the half filling on top of the cake and I chilled it again till the next day

Tadaa... Your cheesecake is ready to be eaten.  My verdict?  It's creamy and with the perfect combo of cheese and blueberry makes you wanna eat more! LOL!  For me the first part of the process is easy and ingredients pun accessible.  Only the part you need to cling wrap and steam take time but worth it!

Happy trying all ^_^

Aloha Baking and Cakes

Yay, am back with my baking session.  Seriously, it so addicting!!! Kan Stella ... :)

And I was so tempted to try out this cake; Red Velvet with Cheese frosting and baking it for first time, it was a success! Plus, I got advance cake orders in March  ^_^

After browsing, studying and comparing based on 10 recipes, I finally opt for Joy of Baking recipe.  Click HERE to watch the video.  Awesome! 

All cakes are using steam method 

I steamed the cake instead of oven bake for 1 hour 30 minutes or until the skewer comes clean.  The second cake that I managed to bake is Choc Moist Cake.  I miss this cake, really and it turned out so moist and yums! And love the choc ganache too...

The urge of baking is so strong now hahaha and my next project will be cream puffs or eclairs or maybe pineapple tarts.  It's time to heat the oven again ^_^

Baking & Chocolates

I was thinking what will happen if I stopped from baking just for a while, maybe half year or so on? Then, I can concentrate on new hobby but nay even my plants also dead and I am totally not a green fingers person :)

Still, I can't get off my mind from baking. Truly, it really makes me calm even tho the aftermath is really troublesome and hola dry skin yikes! Eating the cake is not the first important thing but to see the final result and satisfaction after baking yeay!

So, here is my Steamed Choc Moist. I was kinda upset with the Choc Ganache coz it did not appear like what I want! I am using Cooking Chocolate Compound brand; oily texture and a bit sweet luckily my cake is less sweet. I think in future better stick with choc powder, heavy cream and butter :)

And as a Chocolate lover, this cake will be forever in our list!

La Gente Feliz Lunes :)

The Cake Story - Jan 2011

Baking cakes has become one of my routine now and what if this is my new career and I quit from my almost 8 years working experience in Tourism industry? Hell yeah, I'M LOVIN' IT! hehehe

Yalah, other than having my own time, can be at home (I am a home person) and most importantly I can be my own BOSS! lol

OK, pixies moments:

Fames cake at the moment: Steamed Carrot cake with walnut, crushed pineapple and Cream Cheese with grated lemon and mixed peel topping

New and improved recipe for Steamed Rich Butter Cake with Buttercream Frosting, yummy!

Another order for Steamed Carrot cake with walnut and Cream Cheese with grated lemon and mixed peel topping

Ok, enuff of baking dulu and now lemme share some foodie pixies that I cooked during the recent week.  I can say it's a Chicken theme sebab semua pun ayam ni bah!

Homemade Crispy Chicken Wings :)

My 5 minutes popped up recipe and I call it ~ The Chickenions, we love it hehehe

I terkesadapan looking at AnnieMing  punya resepi mihun sup ayam so first time cooking this meal, I found it easy, affordable and ala - ala makan di kedai hehehe gonna cook again this meal!

The Mihun Sup Ayam; teda bawang2 or daun2 hijau kekeke

Nowadays, when searching the net, looking new recipes for cakes/meals is always in my list.  Kenen2 mau brush up the skills lah, like the KDM infamous words Buli Bah Kalau Kau (BBKK)! not DBKK ah...

P/S:  Sort out again the guest list for the 5th time aiyo!

Countdown to Christmas: The Cake Story - Dec 2010

Ho ho ho peeps,

Ok, this post will be short and pixies showing only :)

Last week, I managed to get 3 orders from my friend and cuzzy.

Steamed Carrot Cake with Walnuts and Pineapple topped with Cream Cheese

Steamed Carrot Cake topped with Buttercream

Steamed Choc Moist Cake topped with Choc Ganache, silver almond around the cake

Yeap, that was last week orders and will be busy this week till 2 days before Christmas...maybe I should consider to open my own cake shop? hehehe...it's too early but nothing is impossible IF YOU PUT YOUR HEART INTO IT!

Will post more Christmas cake orders by this month ya! Stay tune and me chow chow!

Countdown to Christmas: The Cake Story - Orders and steamer pot

Ho ho ho peeps!

19 days till Christmas and how's the preparation?

As for me, mum already put up our medium-sized Christmas tree and just now bought more ornaments and lights to do heavy decor this year hehehe, owh will post pix soon!  And tonight will do Christmas tree decor at dearest house with the theme blue and silver!!!  Can't wait!

Ok, I have posted my new Christmas Cake Order flyer (designed by dearest) in my FB account last week.  And I received lotsa enquiries and will be sending my first order (2 cakes) this 12 December, nice a ronnie! Many more to come woohooo and to cater the orders now and in future, I need to invest in good a steamer pot which I hardly find in KK.  What's on sale now is only Steamer Stacked Pot either Cap Helang or Kucing.  According to the seller, Cap Helang is better and thick compared to Cap Kucing.  Price? Lebih kurang sama saja around KK except di Karamunsing.  Eyeing on the 38cm of steamer pot, baru puas hati! 

Waaah, if like dis pun ok juga! :)  Pix courtesy of locicompany.com

For those who didn't see the flyer, please feel free to check it out below:

Love it! Thanks deary!

The closing date for the cake delivery is on the 23rd December since everyone has booked this date.  At the moment fruit cake is the top choice - irresistible Christmas cake!!!

Gonna list down all the stuff I need to buy and gosh pressies again...hmm, tepa2 hehehe

Till then me chow chow and happy lunch ya!

The Cake Story: Yeay! Cake orders

Hola peeps!  It's Friday and tomorrow is weekends... YEYYY!!! and soon end of the year WAAA!

Nothing much to share just some cakes pix that I baked till midnight last nite huhuhu but I enjoiced it anyways aha...Baked 2 cakes of rich butter for my colleague's hubby and neighbour.  For this orders, I did hand-whisk all the time except the butter cream frosting.  The cakes turns out very fragrant, moist texture and full with butter taste, yum yum... Deary helped preparing the creamy butter frosting, thanks dear :*

Ok, pix momento :)

Rich Butter Cake with colorful bit - bit and yellowish edible flowers

Rich butter with swirl-look choc

Suprisingly, every orders that I get, will be the same type of cakes lols! But, this cake is one of the most ordered cakes other than choc moist and fruit cake (mcm christmas punya tu).  Gonna learn how to do home made fondant before end of this year, hopefully jadi hehehe!

Till then me chow chow and yey movie date tonite ~ si Harry Porter bah tu!!!

P/S: Alah I missed again  Wordless Wednesday Zezebel  hmm...next week lah, try my luck :)

The HOLI & MON ~ days

Hola people!

Last week's holidays was a resting, baking and shopping time for me.  Baking cakes, resting and spending time wif my family and we even went to 1B jalan2 woohoo!!! 

Okay, picture time :)

a) Holiday's cake ~ Purple theme


Choc Super Moist Cake - Baked 2 sets of this cake and client requested PURPLE flowers
Hahaha ada extra decor juga mcm bunga2 abstrak bah tu

SpiderWeb Butter Cake with butter frosting

b) Sunday's Project

Uinah, ter ' kobihis' I saw AnnieMing punya Hinava, and lucky for me dat Saturday my dad bought ikan tenggiri, ikan merah and udang.  So I went to Tamu Tanjung Aru on Sunday to buy lime and bitter gourd (bird chillies and onion ada stock di rumah)

The Fish and Prawn

Tadaaa: My first attempt in making hinava and notice my chicky wings hehehe

I think I did well in my hinava and the family loves it very much !!! (managed to reserve some for deary) :)

And, when I came to office dis morning, someone put this little cute gift on my table...baca dan tinggu belated gift pula from my colleague, thanks Rosmah!!!

Cute box

Earrings - she knows my fav color hehehe

So, how's your HOLI and MON day? Hope everything went/goes well!

Till then, me chow chow!!! Have a nice lunch ya!

P/S: Yeyeye deary is on the way home now... can't wait to see him :)

The Cake Story - Chocs and Fruity Cakes!

Ermmm...

Just a soft reminder to myself that I have 3 cakes to bake this week; 2 chocolate moist cakes and 1 fresh fruit vanilla cake.  Frankly writing, choc moist cake, I have baked sooo many times but fresh fruit vanilla cake aha BELUM PERNAH!!! Hehehe...

Basically, it's just a vanilla cake with fresh cream toppings and lotsa fresh fruit (which I will only buy on Friday itself ~ to maintain freshness hehehe).  All the cakes are meant for buffdays - daddy, mummy and nephew.

Lucky for me, my deary will help me baking the choc moist cake tonight, since my friend will collect it tomorrow.  Thanks deary :*

Wish me luck ya!  Till then, me chow chow!

The Cake Story - BEN10 Cake

1...2...3...Tadddaaa!



A colleague of mine has requested me 1 month earlier to bake cake for his son's birthday.  She wanted butter cake with butter cream frosting and it popped instantly the ideas on how I should decorate the cake. She has mentioned to me many times that her only son is a die-hard-fan of BEN10.  I remembered when we went to KL for exhibition, she rushed me to go and find a set of BEN10 attire for his son and we ended almost 3 hours just to find it at Sg Wang Plaza nasib baik jumpa ah!

I started bake dis cake last Thursday and decorated it the next early morning.  It took 2 hours plus for me to finished the decor and part yang paling susah bagi orang baru belajar ni is to write the wording use piping bag and the colored cream, have to write 45 degrees in order to get nicely wordings and me belum biasa but at least can see kan?

The birthday party was held at her parents in law's house and many people came and the cake pun tidak cukup dan cepat habis! Glad they liked it very much especially the birthday boy and commented sedap!!! hehehe...

Posted the pic in the Facebook and received lots of positive comments...thank you guys and will do it better next time :)

I will be going outstation from this Thursday till Sunday and apologize to those yang sent orders ya! Next week my schedule should be okay...

Ok, till then me chow chow!

TGIF, Christmas Theme, Fruit Cakes, Grey's Anatomy and blah blah blah...

TGIF!!! Huahuahua, the kindest day of the week!  The most waited day for me and my advice to those yang lunch hours at 11.30am, never take leave on this day unless u guys plan to take long days leave if not sayang owh!

Huh! 1 month passed and I didn't post anything, reasons: (a) busy with work (b) busy with my FB games; Baking Life, Pet Society, Night Club City and Scrabble (c) Baking cakes (d) Watching DVDs.  My time is occupied with these reasons hahaha!

Notice my blog's design? It's a Christmas theme.  Ya, I know we still have 4 months to go but just wanna have the feeling much earlier.  So, m gonna stick with this theme till end of this year.  Plus, I also welcome 'fruit cake' orders in advance hehehe and planning to do special packages of fruit cake for dis Christmas season.  Will post it as soonest.  The cake below is my 8th order for fruit cakes, I loike!

If you are in my FB friend's list, get to note on my information side stated ' I love Grey's Anatomy reruns'.  Well, I just not only like it but LOVE it very much till I watch and watch the reruns banyak kali during my leave days.  Love McDreamy so much ! Hehehe... Hmm there's another 4 discs to go before I completed all 6 season of this series.  Must squeeze the time lah ni...

Ok guys lunch time for me it's almost here, me and deary need to do some errands as we are going off to Tambunan, so have a nice and pleasant weekend!

Till then me chow chow!

The Cake Story - Oct 2010

Baking is my activity nowadays.  I admit it was tiring a bit due to hand-whisking and mixing of the batter.

But, it is fun and I enjoy it very much.  Yesterday, m taking one day leave (oh my gosh, I left with 72.5 days of annual leave), I managed to bake 2 types of cakes; one order from colleague and one is for test recipe. I did some decor on the choc moist cake and it is a good start for me.  I covered the whole cake with ganache, grated Cadbury Milk Chocolate bar and lastly sprinkled the grated chocolates on top of the cake, heaven for choc's lovers hehehe...As for the other cake; fruit cake, I did not do any decor.  I need to bake this cake again dis Saturday for my colleague.

Steamed Choc Moist Cake


Steamed Fruit Cake

M still searching and learning new recipes for steamed cakes from time to time.  Hopefully, ada banyak ni :)

Gonna do some left over office work dulu before balik and tonite got movie date ~ SALT hehehe

Till then, me chow chow!

The Cake Story - Meet the new baker!

Woohoo!

Seriously m into baking cakes!  Plus, I've sent 1 order and there are more orders coming up...Teruja? Yes, VERY!!!  Well, since m not good in sewing (provided the whole family members except my dad know to how sew) I have emerged myself to do one of the wonders in my life aha...And thanks to deary who always supports me!

Yes, m the new cake baker...who bakes steamed cakes only ya at the moment.  I have tried to bake sweet corn cake, cheddar cheese cake, cream cheese cake, carrot cheese cake (my mum's fav) and chocolate moist cakes (most popular cake).  All cakes are made from fresh ingredients.  I just need to brush up my decorating cake skills lah. 

Anyways, today is our baby Tabitha @ Tabby 1 year old buffday...happy birthday from mama and papa...love u always...

Till then, will update more on this yer! Chow chow!