Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all my Muslim friends and customers. Maaf Zahir dan Batin.

Wilton Method Intensive Cake Decorating Course

I went missing in action for 3 days attending the Wilton Method Intensive Cake Decorating Course 1,2 & 3 from 15th to 17th December. I'd to turn down some orders and make time to learn some hands-on new techniques in cake art.
These are some of the gorgeous work produced by the participants, off course, most of them touched up by the miracle-working instructor from Canada, Ms Rosalind. She could turn any disastrous piece to a gorgeous looking wedding cake. I just marveled at her talent and the speed she was working 8O

Group photo at the end of 3 hardworking days! Too many cameras shooting at the same time, everybody trying hard to focus, hehe...

Yeah, I got the certificates....haha.... (Ms Rosalind on the right)

This was my assignment on the spot. We had to use the methods taught to us during the 3 days and produce a 3-tier wedding cake.

This one too. We were given 1 hour to work on this cake.

My New Label

This is my new label. I have added light pink to the first label's yellow and lime green.
The 3 colors speaks of:
Green: life, freshness and growth
Yellow: colors, beauty, brightness and boldness
Pink: artistry, creativity, sweetness and romance
They speak of my creations and my work ;D

SELAMAT HARI RAYA!

Wishing all my muslim friends and customers:

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI
MAAF ZAHIR BATIN

Penang Trip - Some Snapshots

I had a good trip to my husband's hometown, Penang. As I had been working so hard, both as a all-rounder hands-on home minister, chauffeur, baker, cake decorator, .....the list goes on, hehe...., my main agenda to go on this trip with my family and my parents-in-law is to hunt for good food and have a good rest. Talking about good food, I hit most of my target except Goay Chiap. This one really tough. I fell in love with its uniqueness about 3 years ago and had been wanting to eat it again but unfortunately I didn't succeed this trip too ;-(

As for others, I had Penang famous Sisters' Fried Koay Teow (don't pr..e..y...pr..e..y..they appeared in The Star Section2 the next day after we ate at their store!!!), Hock Kian Mee, Yam Cake and Otak-Otak at the same store, Aki Pancake (featured in local TV food program 'Ho Chiak'), Penang's best durians at Lim Chong Teng's Farm (contact No. 04-8668551) at Balik Pulau followed by lemak assam laksa just a stone-throw away.

We managed to savour Aki Pancakes only after the third visit! He apologised for taking rest while I was hunting him down the previous visits. He gave me his contact number (012-4821077 - for those who are interested) and told me to call before coming next time 8p
I tried his chocolate banana pancake, meatfloss with cheese pancake and peanut butter with corn pancake. How's it? You have to taste it ;o)

Here are some pictures taken at Lim Chong Teng's farm at Balik Pulau. His farm has over 1000 durian trees and some of them over 100 years old!! If you plan to visit Penang this month, do drop by his farm. You'll never regret the experience, not only for the durians but also what's at the farm.

Mr Lim serves many varieties of durians including a Price-Winning hybrid. I like the durians from the 100-year old tree best, and also Udang Merah specie. Really yummy!!!

Egg separating machine working in progress. The machine separates the eggs into size A, B and C. I bought 120 eggs from the farm. They were so fresh and their yolks are so yellow. Like the omega plus eggs lah ;-) Mrs Lim said the eggs can last at room temperature for 3 weeks! Whoever received their orders from me this week and next week are the 'lucky' ones. Your cakes are baked with these eggs!

Chicken roaming free. These are not the egg-producing chicken. Those are in the cages. These are for meat ;p

One of the durian trees behind the house.

We had this refreshing queen of the fruits after durians and some farm-fresh home-made nutmeg drinks. No problem with 'over-heating' the body, haha...

Besides durians and mangostines, the farm also has dragon fruits, jackfruits and other local fruit trees. This is a young dragon fruit.

Mr Lim also has 2 peacocks (they are so noisy), turkeys, geese, rabbits and snakes sleeping on tree trunks! Mind you, not pets. They are the co-habitants of the farm.
By the way, I'm also a kampung girl. So, don't laugh at me like one that's "seperti katak di bawah tempurung" or the other way round, "seperti kuching kota di dalam kampung", hahaha... my creation...;p

Angel Bears

Gumpaste Angel Bears.

Powerpuff Girls & the Professor

These are going to travel over the seas and be placed on cake bought there ;o)
Gumpaste figurines.

AWAY ON HOLIDAY

I'm away on holiday from 30 November to 8 December. Kindly drop me a mail if you wish to make inquiry or place order. I'll attend to your mails once I'm back.

Sugar Figurines

Found these and many other cute sugar figurines at one of the shops in KL. Anybody interested to to order a cake or cupcakes with these cute guys as a deco item? They are really yummy. I tasted them myself ;o)

Ultraman Sugar Figurines

These were ordered by a customer who did her own cake. She wanted edible cartoon figurines for a 7-year old boy's birthday.

Plastic toys versus sugar figurines.

Closeup.

Gumpaste Flowers

Edible gumpaste roses. Customer ordered 40 pieces for placing on wedding cupcakes.