CREATIVE CUPCAKE CLASS ON 15TH MAY 2010

Our creative cupcake class on 15th May was attended by 9 lovely and charming ladies, Siti Nazli, Aida, Wan Zaleha, Najah, Fauziah, Noor, Azimah, Yusni and Mrs Lee. All of them had no prior experience in baking and decorating except for Fauziah who had taken classes from home based cake decorators. In this class, students were taught the rudiments of baking moist chocolate cupcakes from scratch. Our students were amazed at how easy it was to bake cupcakes that were perfectly moist and delicious.Decorations were made with fondant, buttercream, royal icing and piping jelly.

Today i recieved an email from Siti saying that she has received orders for her cupcakes. Way to go ladies, join in the bandwagon of this lucrative business and start to earn extra income. Another student of mine Azza, has opened her own cupcake kiosk in Giant, Bayan Baru. Please visit her Bumble Dee Cupcake kiosk on the 1st floor of Giant, Bayan Baru if you want to order cupcakes. you can also view Azza's blog at www.bumbledeecakes.blogspot.com





Azza's Bumble Dee kiosk in Giant, Bayan Baru (1st Floor)

FONDANT KEBAYA CAKE CLASS ON 8th MAY FOR MOTHER'S DAY

Our Fondant Kebaya class which coincided with Mother's day (on the next day) was attended by 5 beautiful and doting daughters - Azza, Izzati Lau, Marina, Mustari and Salasiah. Azza chosed a light lavender color, Izzati chosed golden yellow, Marina chosed purple, Mustari chosed baby pink and Salasiah chosed a vibrant red for their kebaya cakes. They took the opportunity to attend this class so that they can present the cakes to their respective mothers on Mother's day(Sunday). The cakes used were rich moist chocolate cakes.

The ladies were given templates for the kebaya and specially made cutters for the scalloped lace pattern. Actually the FMM Straight Frills cutter is used to cut out the scallop lace pattern on the collar, slevees and edges of the cake. But due to high demand for this product, it is not in stock now. I have checked with ICCA and Cake Connection but they are out of stock for this particular pattern. So as they say neccesity is the mother of all creations, i took the liberty to get my iron monger to make the scalloped lace pattern cutters. It did not cost me much to make my own cutters so i gave each student a set of cutter free of charge so that they can make their own fondant kebaya cake in future. Moreover they dont't have to spend much to buy the FMM cutters. I hope to make more different cutters and give to my students who attend our classes. Meanwhile enjoy the pictures of the Fondant Kebaya cakes that my students made. One thing i have to mention here, these five ladies are really super talented as they decorated their cakes with minimum supervision from me. In fact Mustari, who is a succesful business woman said that decorating her cake was therapeutic as it was a way of letting out her stress from her hectic life.

A special thanks to Fadzlina of www.mycuppycupcake.blogspot.com for inspiring us to create your fabulous Fondant Kebaya cake.

If you are interested to learn how to make this gorgeous cakes, please submit the form on the right.

ASSORTED TART CLASS ON 1st MAY 2010

Our tart class on Saturday, which coincided with Labour's Day was graced by seven wonderful ladies and a young and charming 10 year old boy who loves baking. Could he be our very own Jaime Oliver in the making? Guess time can only answer this question. For a 10 year old boy, Roger showed so much interest in baking and he kept a watchful eye over the pastries in the oven. Roger's mom Michelle was joined by Haslinda, Liza, Mahayu, Suhana, Fauziah and Salasiah. I'm thankful to Haslinda who travelled from Ipoh to join our class. A couple of months ago Haslinda joined our Creative Cupcake class. I must also thank Suhana who travelled from Permatang Pauh to join our class. Last but not least i must convey my heart felt thanks to Michelle, Salasiah and Fauziah for joining most of our classes. I sincerely hope that i've fulfilled some of your culinary expectations.

To Liza, Mahayu and Suhana, thank you for choosing PG CakeCraft and hope to see you soon. Liza, thank you again for attending our class eventhough you have a 2 month year old baby and i also look forward to meet your aunty in our Creative Cupcake class.

CHOCOLATE FONDANT CLASS ON 18TH APRIL 2010

Our Chocolate fondant class was attended by 10 wonderful, lovely and talented ladies namely Sabrina, Hamidah, Michelle, Azian, Jane(fr Butterworth), Nor Hayati, Zaiton (both of them frm BM), Shuhada, Ain and Annum (3 of them frm Kulim).

In this class they were given tips on how to bake a cake without cracks or domes. Then we moved on to make fondant and my students were amazed at how easy it was to make their own fondant.Then they were taught to make our best chocolate fondant and i also introduced to them the various types of chocolate available in the market. All of them did not like the cheap coloured chocolate (frm Indonesia)which actually is not chocolate but just sugar, flour, palm fat and tons of artificial colourings. They also learned to make white and dark chocolate roses, rosebuds, calla lilies, leaves and tendrils. Techniques like scrolls, embossing, crimping, lace and frills were also taught. A hands-on technique on dusting with gold and disco dust were also taught.

All my students fell in love with their cake creations and did not want to cut their cakes. They also asked me to order The Wedding Cake, A Dessign Source magazine for them and this morning i've placed orders for the magazines from ICCA.

Thank you ladies, i had much fun with all of you and to Michelle, sorry for ending the class around 7.30pm. She had to rush home for dinner with her 3 young charming boys who were enjoying eating the chocolate fondant.To Sabrina, a big thank you for showing us how to make lovely rosebuds. To Zaiton, Shuhada, Ain and Annum, Nor Hayati and Jane, thank you for coming from BM & Kulim. Last but not least thank you to Azian and Hamidah for attending our class again.

Note: testimoni form my students who attended our Chocolate Fondant class on 18/4/10

I really enjoy myself in ur class I learn a lot frm u n u r such a nice lady. Will bank into ur a/c later in the evening.
Tq, michelle
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

dear kak zarina,
azian is so excited with her 1st cake decorating class(as she never attend any classess b4,hee..)
really awesome choc fondant cake deco (for 1st timer, i guess) n tastes good too..
therefore we would like to share some of the choc fondant cake's pic that we took..

thx for the priceless lesson =)
AZIAN & AZIMAH

TART CLASS ON 10th APRIL 2010

A long hiatus in my classes and blog updates was unavoidable due to some personel commitments and not because of procrastination. Nevertheless, my classes went on as usual and my latest class was our Assorted Tart class. I really enjoyed teaching this class because all the students showed so much enthusiasm and enjoyed making the tarts. I'm sorry to turn down some students as this class was already full. To those who have registered, please bear with me and we'll try to conduct another class soon.

Note: this is an email fr my student, Azimah who attended our tart class.Thank you for your kind words, Azimah. i really wish for you every success in all your baking endeavour.

hai kak zarina...
since attended ur tart class last saturday, i try buat tart untuk makan2 n marketing kat member2 n neighbour. Semua cakap sedap n xmanis sangat. And guess wat, i pun dah dapat tempahan for 80 chocolate walnut tart from my best buddy =)
I would very much appreciate if u could assist me on the pricing for the tarts..
looking forward untuk attend cupcake class, n please inform me on ur classess/ news update k!!

thump ups for u..

AZIMAH