dolce ~

*sorry guys, no time for picture editing*

In the middle of the Mother’s Day rush, this baby came in:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. C’mon guys, awww with me!
I was so surprised how little she was. It’s like we have a new baby!

Baby in a basket!

*meltttts*

This is how small and round she is.

AHHHHHH CUTE OVERLOAD CANNOT TAHAN!!!
i love her yes i do. rie and trace, thanks for forcing us to get her! HAHA.

chrrrrrr chaaaarge!
*imagine the looney toons road runner’s legs spinning*

Look at Fido. She looks so amused. Haha. She’s too sweet she can’t bear to ta-kao with the wonderfully brave, but impractically silly little guy.

And next up! The only flavour I did special this hectic, oh so whirled, Mother’s Day was:

Oreo Cupcakes! I got inspired by some cookies & cream ice cream we had.

Commissioned by Kevin the slavemasterbetulnya *LOL*

The actual last minute boxes.

Thank you guys who got it, well….last minute! hahaha. Irwin (big props man!), Ann (yes I even made extra boxes haha..), Eehan and for the lack of a name..”1st Guy” who was saved as such on le phone. Haha.

And the rest, I didn’t take pictures cause they’re repeat orders of the mother’s day cupcakes design I put up. Joey, Rose, Adrienne, Zimsen, Jack, Michael & buddy, Zul, Ian, Scud, TH, Ms Ng, anyone else? Thomas too (: Here’s my big loud THANKS!!!

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Some stuff I gotta remember: after making these, I as slavemaster feel a huge…huge a need for

1. Quality Control
2. Delegation
3. Time Management

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hey everyone. i have 3 boxes left of 3 (THREE) cupcakes, 2.5 diameter (biggishmedium); packed in long red boxes (peep hole on the top) with golden ribbon; vanilla & chocolate flavour; pick up tomorrow (Sunday, Mother’s day); RM20

please QUICKLY EMAIL ME at youknees (@) gmail.com to reserve em!

(without the butterfly, sorry didn’t buy em)

three of these patterns, blue, pink & white

do email as fast as you can! THANKS!!

• The cupcake wrappers are here!!


• Prices are just going crazy high with just basic necessities

I’m not sure how long I can continue baking. now when i thank god for the food, i really thank him with my whole heart.

• There are great things happening in class.

I’m a bit heavy hearted. And discouraged. BUT NO I WON’T LET IT WIN! the lava monster must be destroyed.

• I’m going to make macarons



madbaker.net


i’m starting to get the need to make em after seeing these pictures!

• I have to plan our KK trip & make a lot of calls

GOTTA BOOK THE TICKETS!




the kk post at my old blog

• I had to skip class to finish baking a dozen cupcake orders

i’ve realised its so hard to delegate. thats one of the factors i gotta work on if i ever wanna continue baking for orders..

• I just realised I have this huge aversion to showering!

Until the last minute…

• i actually thought iron man was pretty good.

like bryan said and my bro won’t believe…mr stark’s got a funny stomach and a cool beard.

• WE GOT FREE BIG MACS! It’s true!! I kid you not.

Free food is always a big deal.
I just got it and gave it to my bro. hahahahaha. it’s too..BIG!

Electrifying, power surged, relevant…

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/great-florida-healing-revival
LIVE 7am - 11am

Sometimes you just gotta go by your gumption. I went by mine creating these long on my to-bake list, chocolate-cheese cheesecakelets. Flavours keep coming to my mind in heavenly combos! Haha. I’m such a freak. :P

And they were good. Drop dead gorgeously good! My mom said I can stop making all other flavours and just sell this :P I honestly think I’m going to do that. I’ve worn myself out baking too many flavours & so much attention to little details…haha.

THE “Welcome heaven to my mouth” Cupcakes themselves

(3 layers: chocolate crumb base, cheese, chocolate ganache)

Who faces the problem of crushing the biscuit crumbs? ME! When making cheesecakes, I always used a blender or some weird machine/method that NEVER did the job of crushing the biscuits finely! Today, I found something new old! I used this stone-age weapon (my gramma’s tumbuk for shrimp & curries, don’t worry, washed properly!) to grind the Oreos:

*raise your hands those who still have this!* Everyone should own this. I’ll teach you the technique of using it: you put it on newspaper on the floor, you squat, huff and pound. No really….you lift it up but let the weight bring it down. PERFECT CRUMBS. all the time! no more dumb machines for me ;)

Then temptation came..

Who’s on a detox? Nuff said.

As usual, I wasted a whole load of time taking pictures.

And more pictures.

And as I was decorating them…….

SCHPLAT.
That’s right! SCHPLAT is all I have to say! A very pretty schplat, if i do say so myself ;)

After an eventful decorating process:

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okay so you may be wondering, what does the baker really eat? well what i really feed my cows siblings is this:

Grass

Yes, wonderful salad! Everyone should eat it. Therefore I’ll pen down the recipe here:

Big Bad Salad

romaine lettuce/yao mak
onions
tomatoes
japanese cucumbers
raisins
apple cider
olive oil
honey

Mama mia…

Chocolate Cream-Cheese Swirl

120g philadaelphia cream cheese
120g sugar

whip this together and swirl 1 teaspoon (or more!) in moist chocolate cupcakes recipe

have fun! let me know if you try it out :D

I was very amused to find that, (as of now) my most popular link according to MyBlogLog.com is

……“The Best Blog Ever”, according to Paul Koh.

I laughed out loud. LOL. Doesn’t it show that it’s all about the ‘packaging’?
Paulie Waulie, now do you owe me or do you owe me!? (;

The midnight baking ninja strikes back.

happy 12th to Elisa Qistina! i hope you had a faantastic one! the pretty purple theme matches her very pretty name ;) which reminds me….why amn’t I like, eunice annabella giselle louisa muthusamy kerupia loo may lee?

this week has seriously been the most hectic since valentine’s. and it’s not even mother’s day yet!! i got this order on friday afternoon for saturday mornin at 9am. always the heroic one, i said yes…and ended up having to bake at 5am because the chocolate cake turned out a tad bitter. overdose of cocoa! yup, in a chocolate cake always remember: too much cocoa = bitterness of heart, soul and cake.

oh, i also made it in the nick of time! we had a very hilarious complication meeting up but we eventually did! waait. I just realised I don’t know her name! she’s on my phone as ‘Lady’; Lady, if you’re out there somewhere, do let me know your name please! =D

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Other midnight orders:

happy birthday emily! hope it’s a good one ;)

ezra is another one of my ‘favourite customers’. AHEM AHEM. *says this to marianne, jack, tom, dick and harry” haha, was it arnold schwarzenegger’s film where he said that? well anyways, ezra if you are reading this, your cupcakes waited ALL THEIR LIVES FOR YOU! ;)

this here is for SL, a real sweet lady. we both messed up our communication times and cars, so we ended up waiting half an hour more to meet. in that half an hour in section 14, i went to Wonderland aka ICCA (International Cake Artistry?). Alice, oops, I mean Eunice, got very distracted by almost everything there. Unfortunately, I only came out with this:

Wilton’s Black Icing Color RM7.50

yes everyone, it is now time to balk at the price. anyone know where to get this for cheaper? PLEASE let me know! :) that shop is amazing, but so high priced. -__- from there now I want to get:

1. wilton master piping tip set - RM193
2. some flower eject tube thang - RM?
3. cupcake wire stand - RM150+
4. cookie cutters - RM22 per set, RM3.80 one
5. sheer colour bottles - RM4
6. embossed rollers - RM79
7. pearls - 50g @ RM5

i need to head off to taman mega’s bake with yen & chang thung to stock up for mother’s day mad baking.

btw, is wilton THE name in baking?

For Nurulhuda, may your family always be blessed with happiness! :)

my sisters all helped and we had a load of fun and stress doing it. BUT THEY’RE SO CUTE RIGHT! note the bees and the cats! and i think i’m going to keep this cupcake template: what shall I name it, colour-tastic? contagious colour? cheerful?

this is a terrible cycle. i go to the piano and i immediately play the songs in my head and singgggg……until i realise i haven’t touched a single one of my pieces, scales NOR sight reading, chords or exercises.

and then i have orders, and then i have clean up and loads of bowls and dishes in the sink. just sittin pretty for me. *sigh*

now anyone have any motivational words for me and my piano? ;)