CUPCAKE DECORATING CLASS ON THE 18TH JULY 2009

from left Hizween, Mustari, Norizah, Intan, Marlina, Ros, Andrew and Ramzan (who left before we took this photo)
moist chocolate cupcakes sans decorations

Our cupcakes class on the 18th was attended by 7 lovely ladies and a young gentleman. If anyone thinks that men are not good bakers or cake decorators, then think again. Pg CakeCraft had a couple of guys as students and if compared to the girls, these guys can learn cake decorating very fast. Just like yesterday, Andrew who has not held a piping bag before start quite slow but once he learnt how to use the bags, he went on piping away and came up with creative designs.A couple of months back we had Ramesh as a student and Ramesh called me a few weeks ago to inform that he's getting a lot a wedding cake orders. I hope Andrew will have the same success as Ramesh and turn their creativity into something rewarding.

As for the young ladies, it was real fun teaching them because they wanted to learn everything from scratch,i.e. from baking the cupcakes, making royal icing , buttercream and the ganache.Hizween who had just returned from Australia and Noor Mustari are two very talented young ladies and managed to learn the techniques of icing very fast. Ros, Intan, Marlina, Norizah and Ramzan (Zan) were also not far behind them. I wish we had more time to teach them but due to time constrain, we had to wrap up our class close to 8.00pm. All of them really had a good time at PG CakeCraft and below is an email send by Intan and Andrew. To Intan and Andrew, thank you for the email and we really appreciate it.

Salam Kak Zareena,

Saya Intan yang join class Cup cake deco kak zareena yesterday. Thx so much......really enjoy the cup cake deco yesterday....hehe....walopun letih.....but really have a great experience....

Rgrds
Intan....

Hi Zareena,

I really enjoy ur class last weekend. I had learned a lot of new knowledge.

Thanks.

Rgds,

Andrew Chiam

NEW HOME-MADE CHOCOLATE CLASS MODULE & NEW BAKING/CAKE DECORATING CLASSES

Heart shaped chocolate card with a birthday greetings. Learn to make them in our chocolate class or call us for a price quotation if you want to buy them. Can be made in various shapes, sizes and colours.

More new types of home-made chocolate will be taught in our new chocolate class module. Learn to make them or call us for a quotation if you want buy a box of chocolate for your loved ones.

PG CakeCraft's new chocolate module includes the making of 'chocolate card'. Students will be taught how to make cards with lovely greetings from chocolate. You will learn how to make these cards in various shapes,sizes and colours. No special moulds and equipments are needed to make these chocolate cards. A new and innovative way to make edible chocolate cards will be taught. These cards can be put on cakes or be topped with nuts and given as gifts to impress your family and friends.
PG CakeCraft's next chocolate class is on the 8th August 2009 (Sat) as our class on the 1st August 2009 is already full!!! and we still have many students requesting for a chocolate class.

Students registering for our new chocolate class will recieve 2 pieces of chocolate moulds, 250gm of coverture chocolate for you to practice making chocolate at home, 10 pieces Belgian Chocolate and lunch from Restoran Wawasan Mutiara . All these for a fee of only RM200. Below is our new chocolate making class module:

a) a brief history on chocolate and the production of various type of chocolate like dark, milk and white couvertue, compound and Belgian chocolate.

b) Chocolate making process and techniques.

i) tempering chocolate without using tempering equipment

ii) moulding chocolate in creative designs, marbling, sripes & edible sticker

iii) making chocolate cards & writing creative words in chocolate

iv) making dipping chocolate for strawberries

c) delicious praline filling recipes

d) gianduja chocolate which is a European style of chocolate made from chocolate and nut paste. (will also be taught in our module)

e) name & address of chocolate suppliers to get you started to make homemade chocolate

f) packing, pricing and marketing plan of your homemade chocolate

Our new baking and decorating courses comprises of hands-on baking classes.Our classes are no longer using the demo concept as we believe students will learn more if they bake their own cakes. PG CakeCraft's students will be baking cakes, cheesecakes, cupcakes, muffins, and tarts under our instructor's guidance.

Our next new cake decoration course is Fondant and Gumpaste course. Novelty cake decorating like Camera Cake, Handbag Cake, Gumpaste Shoes and Hat Box Cake and Topsy Turvy Cakes will be taught. More interesting techniques like drapes, frills, fabric effects, ribbons, bows, crimping, embossing, applique, modelling fun figures and flowers will be included in our Fondant and Gumpaste cake decorating courses.

Chocolate Modelling Paste or Plastic Chocolate will also be introduced in our cake decorating courses. Learn how to make Plastic Chocolate from White, Milk and Dark Chocolate. We will also teach you how to mould flowers and figures from Plastic Chocolate.

SPECIAL BEGINNER'S CUPCAKE DECORATING CLASS

Marina, who hails from Simpang Empat, called me a few times to conduct a beginner's cupcake decorating class on a weekday as she has to take care of her young children on weekends. This 8 month pregnant lady braved the one hour drive to Penang (Komtar)and attended my class specially held for her on 7th July 2009 (Tuesday). Sometimes its hard for me to say no to students who are really enthusiastic to learn cake decorating, especially like Marina who wanted to come from so far. I hope Marina is happy with our special class and will practice all that she had learned form us.To Marina, PG CakeCraft would like to wish good luck and best wishes to your new baby.

CHOCOLATE CLASS ON THE 4TH OF JULY

Our Home-made Chocolate class held on 4th July 2009 (Sat) was attended by four lovely and charming ladies. Aizah came from Bandar Perda, Seberang Jaya and Hayati came from Nibong Tebal. Noraini and Ros came from Penang. Armed with enthusiasm and zeal, these four ladies really had a wonderful time learning the art of home-made chocolate. Aizah called me today and said her family and friends loved her chocolate made from corverture milk chocolate as it tasted like Cardburys and Hersheys chocolate and and she'll be taking orders from customers soon. Our team at PG CakeCraft is always pleased to hear when our students start to use skills learned from us to good and profitable use. I also have to mention something about some of the quality of chocolate available in Malaysia . I'm sure some of you must have seen a lot of moulded colourful chocolate in the market. Actually these 'chocolate' are not real chocolate but just colourings, sugar and palm oil fat. Most of these chocolate come from Indonesia and does not taste like chocolate and has no nutritional value. If you want colourful chocolate, use white coverture chocolate and add FDA approved food colourings. Wilton's candy melts also comes in different colours and is made from real chocolate.


Home-made chocolate packed and ready to go. Call us for a quotation if you need to buy a special box of lovely and delectable chocolate for your loved ones.


Heart shaped chocolate lollipops.Suitable to be given as Valentine's gift to melt your love's heart! Learn to make them or order from us.

Nutty Pralines and Teddy chocolate. Suitable to be served during childrens' birthday parties. Nutty Pralines can be served during festivals like Hari Raya Puasa, Christmas, Deepavali and Chinese New Year. Call us for a price quotation if you want to order for the coming festivals.
Chocolate with designs? Yes, we can teach you to make chocolate with designs using edible stickers.
4 charming ladies at work. Aizah, Noraini, Ros and Hayati attended our chocolate class last Saturday (4/7/09). They had such a load of fun making and moulding their own chocolates. Here, they are seen packing their handmade chocolate meticulously under the guidance of our chocolate instructress, Pn Jamilah(Kakchik).
Noraini is amazed with her ability to make delicious chocolate with such ease. Noraini is a creative person and loves to make 'hantaran' and gifts for friends and family. Now she can include handmade chocolate in her gifts making repertoire.

BAKING CLASSES FOR JULY 2009

Due to overwhelming request for our bread and bun making class, PG CakeCraft will be conducting another class on 19th July 2009 (Sat).Many students have also requested for another cupcake and cake decorating class and PG CakeCraft will be conducting these two classes too. Please be advised that if you are interested to attend any of these classes, you have to register 3 days before the commencementof the classes so that we'll have enough time to make preparations for your class. For all our cake decorating classes, we use real cakes and not dummy cakes. The reason is, the texture of real cakes differ from the dummy ones (which are usually made from styrofoam). Even our frostings like buttercream, ganache and royal icing are made fresh for each class. Our chocolate making class is also being requested to be held this month.

After the month of July, PG CakeCraft will not be having any classes until October due to the fasting month and Hari Raya Puasa. Our kitchen in PG CakeCraft is already inundated with wedding orders. PG CakeCraft is making 5,000 pieces of belgian chocolate as wedding favours, hantaran cakes, groom cakes and 3 tier wedding cakes. So kindly take note that PG CakeCraft will resume with our classes in October. We are working very hard to bring more wonderful cake baking and cake decorating classes begining from October 2009. We will start with Fondant and Gumpaste classes using techniques from PME in Sugarcraft Diploma Course and also from the Wilton Fondant And Gumpaste Course. Our cake decorating courses using buttercream, royal icing and ganache will also be taught using the Wilton Cake Decorating method. Students will also be taught the correct method on how to construct stack and tiered cakes. It is very important to learn the techniques of constructing tiered cakes so as to avoid embarrassment of your wedding cakes collapsing when delivered to your customers.

For all our new courses starting from October 2009, we will be offering a 30% discount on the course fee as a token of appreciation. Please vist our blog to keep abreast of our latest class schedule.


Chocolate Making Class (hands-on)
04/7/09 (Saturday)
10am - 5pm
instructor - Pn Jamilah
fees - RM 200
-knw about couverture & compound chocolate
-learn tempering & seeding Chocolate
- mould beautiful designs with chocolate transfer sheet
- make delicious praline filling
- make chocolate coated strawberry bouquet
- packing, pricing & marketing plan will be given
- Bonus 250gm couverture chocolate given FREE to students to
practise at home


Beginner's Cupcake Decorating Class (hands-on)
18/7/09 (Saturday)
10am - 5pm
fees - RM 130
module
- learn to bake moist chocolate cupcakes (recipe given)
- learn to decorate 16 diff designs with
buttercream ,fondant, chocolate ganache, piping
jelly, edible image.
- recipe to make soft & shiny buttercream, fondant and ganache will
be given to students


Bread & Bun Making Class (hands-on)
19/7/09 (Sunday)
10am - 4pm
instructor - Chef Rohaya
fees RM 145
module
1) Sweet Bun
2) Sausage Bun (2 Patterns)
3) Mix Veg.Bun (2 Patterns)
4) Coconut Bun (3 Patterns)
5) Cheese Stick
6) Plaited Bun (Roti Dendan)
7) Red Bean (3 Patterns)
8) Twist Bun
9) Tuna Horn Bun
BONUS: DEMO ON MAKING DONUT USING CHEF ROHAYA'S DONUT MIX


Basic Cake Decorating Class (hands-on)
26/7/09 (Sunday)
10am - 5pm
instructor - Chef Rohaya
fees RM195
module
- demonstration of baking super soft sponge cake (recipe will be given)
- learn to make your own piping bag
- learn to make creamy, shinning and delicious buttercream
from chef's own SECRET recipe
- Learn to make 3 types of borders & frills
- learn to pipe rose flower, rosettes dan 'bunga siput'
- learn to assemble all your flowers on the cake
(each student will practice on a board first & then will
be given a real cake to decorate)


TO REGISTER FOR ANY OF OUR CLASSES, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT zarmgmum@yahoo.com
OR CALL ME AT 04-2639981 / 016-4753114




Are these roses real? No. these roses are made from Chocolate (White) Modelling Paste or Plastic Chocolate and air brushed in different colours. Our Plastic Chocolate classes will also be introduced soon. Learn to make beautiful flowers with Plastic Chocolate and how to air brush them with vibrant colours..

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