CHOCOLATE FONDANT CLASS ON 19th JUNE 2010

LILYANA & MICHELLE'S WEDDING CAKE CLASS ON 17th JUNE 2010

Lilyana, a teacher in a goverment school is very much interested in cake decorating. She called me a few days ago to enrol for our 3-tier wedding cake class. As it was the mid-year school break, Lilyana was free to join the class. She emailed to me a couple of cake pictures that she procured from the internet and wanted to learn to make the big sugarpaste flower cake toppers. I had to tell Lilyana that those flowers were not handmade but bought from baking supply shops. Lilyana bought a spray of sugarpaste roses and brought it to class. She was grateful to me for enlightening to her that the big artificial rose bouquet that are put on cakes were not handmade. She thought students will be taught to make the big roses bouquet. That being said, Lilyana was happy with what she learned in class and below is the email she sent to me with the picture of her cake. I could not snap any pictures with my camera as I forgot to put in the batteries. In fact the cake in this picture is not really complete coz Lilyana's camera batteries were 'going dead' as she had been snapping the various stages of her cake decorations.

This class was also attended by Michelle who wanted to learn to stack her cakes. She was also curious with the steam buttercream method and after seeing that plastic tupperware was used to melt the buttercream, she decided that she'll experiment with glassware. Frankly speaking, I'm also not a fan of steam buttercream if plastic is used in the melting of buttercream.I'm afraid the plastic components that melts in the tupperware may be toxic to us, expecially to young children. So to those of you who are consuming too much steam buttercream, please be aware of this fact.

A'kum Zarena,

Thanks for today's class..i really learn a lot lot lot from this class..n now i feel more confident in decorating cake after ur guidance...tq very very much. InsyaAllah if have rezeki next time i will attending ur class again for other courses...

also here i attached photo taken on tat class...

TEA-TIME TREAT CLASS ON JUNE 13th 2010

baked doughnuts with various mouth watering toppings
tea treats fit for a queen? tiers of cream puffs, mini cheesecakes,doughnuts,chicken pie & baked sandwiches.
a platter of tea-time treats.
baked mini cheesecakes with various fruit toppings
chicken pie ready to go into the oven
baked sanwiches & chicken pie
students who attended our tea-time treats class

MOIST CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE WITH SWISS CHOCOLATE GANACHE

These moist chocolate cupcakes are topped with velvety Swiss chocolate ganache. Very deliciously moist and rich,these cupcakes were 'gone' within minutes in my cousin sister's house.

TART CLASS ON 6th JUNE 2010

Portuguese Egg Tart & Coconut Tart
Mixed Fruit Tarts
Chocolate Walnut Tarts
Assorted Cheese Tarts

SUE'S KEBAYA CAKE

Sue from Alor Star, Kedah who has taken couple of cake decorating classes from us, wanted to make a Kebaya 'Hantaran' cake for her dad who will be tying the knot for the second time after the demise of his beloved wife two years ago. She had already booked the date with me a week before she attended the class. Sue is a natural cake decorator coz she decorated her fruit cake (Sue brought her own cake)with mninimum supervision from me.Sue chosed a pure white fondant and black royal icing accents for her kebaya cake as it was their colour theme. She was also given a pair of cutters (free of charge) to make laces, so that in future Sue can use this cutters for her Kebaya cakes. To Sue and her father, PG CakeCraft wishes all the best and hope this weekend is full of joy.

CHEESECAKE CLASS ON 22ND MAY 2010

Our cheesecake class was attended by Hani, Noor Liya, Khamisah, Hasnah,Marina and Billy Lim. I have to thank Hasnah for driving from Taiping to attend our class. This is her second class with us after our Creative cupcake class.Thank you to Noor Liya for coming from Batu Kawan, Perai. Thank you to Khamisah for taking that long drive from Balik Pulau. I appreciate Hani's attendance and this is her second class after our Creative cupcake classs. Thank you to Billy and Marina for choosing PG CakeCraft to learn the art of creative baking.

This is a hands on class and students had to make the cheesecakes right from the base to the filling. All my students were quite amazed to learn how easy it was to bake cafe style cheesecakes if they applied the correct techniques in baking. Our cheesecakes came perfect without any cracks or sunken middle and the texture was smooth & velvety.Tips on how to diversify basic cheesecakes with different flavours were also given.They were also taught how to cut the cheesecakes into neat serving sizes. After tasting their cheesecakes, all of them agreed that it tasted better than store bought cheesecakes. I felt happy to hear them say that coz it was an honour for me to know our cheesecakes were indeed tasty. Once again I have to thank my teacher and mentor, Chef Bruce Lee from Culinary Arts Centre for giving me so many invalueable tips in his baking class. I took the Pastry and Cakes course from CAC in year 2000 and proceeded to Advance Cake Class in the same year.

Our Cheesecakes Series 2 class will be starting soon where students will be taught to bake Oreo cheesecake, Mango Cheesecake and Tiramisu Cheesecake. If you are interested to join this class, please submit the form on your right.