Theme: The Pearl House Warming

House warming by Shahnaz.. for their new home in The Pearl, Qatar. Quite a luxurious place I can say ;) Hope their party went well..

Theme: Baby shower (boy)

It's a boy! Another order from Nanie.. ;)

Theme: Barbie in green

Believe it or not this Barbie cake is for the 24 years old Lina... made specially on request by a friend as she was super curious to learn.. Hope both the pelajar, and the birthday girls are super happy.

Theme: Oreo fever

My very first trial, Oreo cheesecake.. not too bad at all ;)

Cupcake deco class

Another session with four wonderful ladies; Hanny, Ziela, Nanie and Nanie ;)

Graduation date: 19th of March 2010

They have indeed an artistic hand by nature.. ;)

Cupcake deco class

Presenting my first graduates: Ms.Shafna and Ms. Ameera on 18th of March 2010.

Pic above: Certificates for graduates

The two have enjoyed their time with all different techniques of decoration, using both buttercream and fondant. Check out their admirable products~
Thank you again for joining the class, may your skills develops with time and experience! Happy cupping!!

Theme: MuzziL fever!

Muzzil just turned 9, and her mom requested a simple cupcakes of pink and blue with his initial letter on each cuppies for his classmate. Happy Birthday Muzzil!

Basic Cupcake deco class..

Hi all.. lately few people has been asking me to do a class on cupcake deco. I am very keen to conduct it, but need to know who else is there to join me? Please email me if you are interested, might do a class on 17th, 18th and 19th of March 2010.

Best Regards all ;)

Theme: Flowery

in Blue Pink n Purple.. Happy Birthday NISA!!

Theme: Valentine

From Haney to Syafie with love..

Theme: Blue & White Birthday wish

A special surprise request from afar..It was an order from Malaysia, to the lucky guy in Doha- Happy Birthday!!!

Theme: Welcome baby!

It's a gift basket to one of our friend- who just got his very first baby.. Welcome to the world baby Maximus!

Theme: 2 tier sweet 13

My very first 2 tier cake. Learnt the technique from youtube, why does it look so simple in their video, yet it was so darn hard to do?!! I guess practice make perfect.. anyway, happy birthday Natalia, hope you love your cake.

Theme: Elmo

Elmo 3D cake..

Theme: Barney & Friends

Here comes another challenge from Nanie! - Barney & Friends cuppies and Barney 3D cake!! To tell you the truth, I'm kinda proud of myself, didn't think I could make 'em until now! Happy Birthday to the 3 years old Rania!!

Theme: Simple message

Theme: Ho! Ho! Ho!

I don't quite celebrate christmas, but I tot the colour would made a set of yummilicious-looking cuppies, so what the heck! ;)

Theme: Chanel clutch

A very last minute request from a new friend... happy birthday Amy!

Theme: Purple & Pink Barbie

Yeah, only Myra will get two set of birthday parties with two set of Barbie cakes i guess. :P

Theme: Pinkalicious Barbie

For Myra, who turned 2 last 2nd of Oct 2009.

Eid Special

Since I wont be able to bake the infamous Sarawak's Layered cake for Doha peeps for this coming Eid, I tot I'd share one of the best recipe that I've tried (and agreed by many as super yummilicous) complete with some guidance on how to bake. Hopefully you'll enjoy trying it on your own.. here goes;

The Recipe: Ninja Turtle layered cake

::The ingredients::

15 eggs (gred A)
380g of fine sugar
380g of flour
80g of corn flour
230g of instant milk powder
500gm of butter
1 tablespoon of ovalette
1 tablespoon of butter essence (in my case, i replace it with vanilla essence)

::The How To::
Bowl A

Beat the egg till fluffy, add in sugar, and beat well.

Put in ovallete, mix well.

Add in corn flour, instant milk powder and flour and mix well with low speed.

Bowl B

In a different bowl (bowl B), beat the butter till fluffy. (It is important to beat the butter separately to ensure a super-moist end product ;) )

Once the butter is fluffy enough, add into bowl A. Mix well then add in butter essence.

Bonus pic: The miss ateMYRAble (tengah menyibuk kat dapur).

Now, divide the batter into 4 different bowls of a same size. On each bowl, add in your own prefered colour, in my case; blue, red, yellow and chocolate (i use chocolate emulco; to add a sense of chocolate taste)

Use a 9" x 9" tray, cut out a grease paper to fit. Then smoothen some butter onto the inner surface. Next, take a spoonful of the chocolate batter and put one on every corner and lay them around the tray like picture below;

Bake in a pre-heated oven (Top flare only). As far i as learned, it is recommended to use a gas oven rather than electric, and there's no telling on how long to expect for each layer to be done. What i did is, i'd see if the layer's surface is thicken and is not bounchy, then it is done.. (this is why it is better to go through practical class than reading through simple manual like mine.. hehe). But for those who already familiar on how to bake layered cake, this shouldn't be a problem after all~ ;) One useful tips when using gas oven is to put some water in a heat-resistance bowl while baking in it; to prevent over-heating and to maintain moisture.

Keep on layering and baking for each alternate colours until you reach the top tray. Well.. to tell you the truth the ninja-turtle part is when you make a diagonal layer of each colour at the middle of the cake; so you'll end up with a beautiful designed-layered cake; which I completely ignored, as for me, the taste that mattered.. hehe.

Now, go ahead and try it for this coming Eid, and see if you enjoy it as much as i did. Good luck!

Out of Doha

Hiya, really sorry that i forgot to update, I'm currently away from Doha, and is currently enjoying our festive time in Malaysia with families and friends~.. So, i won't be able to take any more order until further notice... thank you.. Eid Mubarak to all~~

Theme: The it (eat) bag

A special custome-made 'It' bag for Dills *ehem*#-th birthday.

Theme: Assorted minis

Four mini fondant cakes for belated birthday wishes to the four Augustians.

Theme: Tom & Jerry

Another order for a whole birthday cake. I don't have the edible-image printer, so oughtta draw them myself. Luckily enough they do resembled the famous Tom & Jerry toon.. (barely!)

Theme: 3 a family

"Three tiny persons, sitting on a cake, k-i-s-s-i-n-g..''

As requested by the birthday boy, he wanted a sarawak layered cake instead of any cakes or cuppies.. so I made one with the three of us sitting on it, waiting to be eaten. ;)

I guess after this, i hafta change my blog title to atemyrable-cuppies&cakes afterall. Will be sharing the recipe soon...

Sarawak Layered Cake

This is my very first attempt of Sarawak layered cake on my own after attending the class. Ninja Turtle cake as my techa called it. It didn't quite look 100% like the supposed-design i figured, but good enough for the first trial, and moreover, the three hours effort are all worth-it as lots of my friends-comes-guinea pigs complemented the taste ;)

Theme: Red n Blue Car

A surprise set ordered by Fasha for her husband's birthday. Since the intention is quite sweet, I've decided to made a lil bit of a special presentation on the box. Simple but meaningful I hope ;)

Theme: Colours of rainbow

So far, the most colourful cupcakes i ever made; 32 pieces of 2.5oz cuppies matching the age of the lucky receiver.. guess what? they are my very first order received via this website! Thanks Veck, hope you like it ;)

Theme: Very Fishy Buffday!!

Happy 1st bubbly-birthday to Arif Rayyan!!!! (I know, it's too chubby a fish! but ain't it make ém more cute to eat? hehehehe)

Theme: House Warming

Thanks to Ibu, I finally got to play with black icing! but as you can see, mine are not as black, coz it's really hard to get a pitch black! I think you hafta use the whole bottle! hehe.. Anyway, this was made for a friend's house warming, which kinda in theme with his interior design that mostly are in black,grey n dark purple.. ;)

Theme: Aloha!

I just came back from basic photography class, and didn't have that many time before going to Leng and Leine's Hawaiian birthday party. So the cuppies brought for them are as simple as it can be. ( I wish i could have more time to do the deco, i was thinking about hula girls n stuff.. but what to do, time-constraint.. mebbe some other time..) But anyway, the tots that count rite? ;)

The how to: make cupcake base

Hiya, sorry it took so long to update.. hehe, you know, this stay-at-home-mom thingy is quite new for me, i so need to learn more on time management and stuff! hurmmm.. anyway, back to the subject;

Today am gonna share the recipe for the cupcake base. Yup.. as you can see, most of my cuppies are all lied flat, because this way you can be more creative in terms of what to decorate on top, but if you like the typical swirl-type cuppies, go ahead and do as you please, i'll show all sort of different design some other time k ;)

So, basically, get your well-baked cuppies and get ready to lay buttercream base on it;

Recipe: Base for cupcakes (and yess, you can use it for a cake too)

BUTTERCREAM base

::Ingredients::

500g creamwell/krimwell
200g shortening
150g butter
1 tin of condensed milk
Flavour - i don't use any, and still yummilicious

::Methods::

Mix all in except for condensed milk. Beat till fluffy before adding the milk. Beat well till creamy. If you are a sweet-tooth, go ahead and add more icing sugar..( but believe me, this is sweet enough! just the rite taste ;) Yup.. you are done when you got something like in the picture.

So, once you got this done, all you have to do now is to lay it on the cupcakes top (yes, this is the reason why we bake the cuppies half-full). Then use a small scrapper (the kind on the pic) to smoothen the surface, oh yeah.. this is the part where your design should be considered, say you wanna make a pink background, add in some colours to your buttercream- mix well, then smooth them onto your cuppies, by scrapping it in one direction and you are done (at least for the first part..)

Hope you enjoy it, as much as i do.. now here's some useful tips: the buttercream can be use up to a month if you keep it in the fridge. ;)

See you on my next 'how-to' post!