Let's Bake with Puteri & I

deepavali cupcakes gift

2008-10-27T07:07:00.000+08:00

i decided to bring some cupcakes as a gift when i am gonna visit a friend for deepavali later in the evening. so this is the result of part of the cupcakes out of this one—

i felt so relieve when i managed to get almost the same purple colour for the frosting, to match with the purple coloured box and tissue paper. please do not ask me of where i got the box. its a recycle item ok? hehee... well its actually a body shop' gift box! see... you won't waste a thing if you have the pledge to be an environmental friendly people right.

anyhow i really hope that kausheilia will likes eating my cupcakes, as much as i lurve baking and decorating them ;) PLUS eating them too! *big grin*

race car cupcakes

2008-10-27T06:44:00.001+08:00

i bake some cupcakes yesterday, to surprise a nephew shahriman whose 9th birthday falls today, on deepavali day. i only managed to decorate the cupcakes just now as i had to attend a cousin's wedding in ipoh last night.

as shahriman is more into motorsports, mother suggested that we should buy the same car chocolate that i did for another nephew daniel. luckily a local supermarket still sells that. this time i didn't unwrap the car chocolate, but placed them exactly as it is on the decorated cupcakes instead. i guess it looks much real that way.

we gonna bring the kids plus shahriman for breakfast at mcD in ipoh later. we will see of where we shall surprise shahriman with his race car birthday cupcakes. do check back my personal blog later for the updates :~)

kuE's note:
interested in my cupcakes? kindly find out about the prices here.

personalized cupcakes

2008-10-17T08:18:00.010+08:00

megat was so happy yesterday that he got the chance to make with me; the cupcakes for his classmates meant as a raya treat. you can view last years' one here. take note that i like the above pic— its all been explained here. you can see the movement of megat's hand placing the paper cups in its place. we can also see megat's expressions. nice.

megat helped me to do some simple things though like beating the eggs, putting the ingredients in the mixer, placing the paper cups and sort. he's not that brave to weigh the ingredients yet though. he afraid that he won't do it right. anyhow i will still let him try very soon.

we just make do with a simple design with the children's name, as long as we could assure that the children would be as happy as megat, especially when they would have their own cupcakes with their own name written on it. i know they would. tell me which kids don't right.

my oly is with megat. i will get it back during his recess time. i can't wait to see the children's faces.

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kuE's note:
please find out about my cupcakes prices here.

tiffany & co (?)

2008-10-08T11:32:00.008+08:00

my cupcakes are all ready for my former high school's OGA (short for old girl's association occay?) committee meeting later in the evening. during our last meeting in the mid of ramadhan, it was actually my grand auntie pah mimi's idea for us to have potluck for this meeting, since we are all still in the raya mood. then i was like— "wohoo!!!... i am only good in cupcakes, so i'll bring cupcakes ler kan? hehee...".

my butter cupcakes a bit shrink this time around :( so i came out with the idea to decorate them with a double swirl design. lotsa used of buttercream though i.e. doubleeeee!!! as usual. i am sure the senior citizens not keen with it. but anyhow they could always take out the buttercream, then eat the cupcakes instead, not a problem with that :)

in terms of taste, texture and such, my version of tiffany & co cupcakes *glurp* have been tested and passed thru my personal QS i.e. mama hehee...

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in fact, i did the same colour for my lil' sis' last saturday, who as usual wanna served my cupcakes for her colleagues for the raya. i decorated hers with my signature design. she's the only malay in the office, so she opt for the very simple one! that is bring cupcakes and gave them away for raya treats :P

please go here to see the raya cupcakes i did for my lil' sis last year.

kuE's note:
interested in my cupcakes? kindly find out about the prices here.

How To Make Double Layered Chocolate Cake

2008-09-26T00:23:00.005+08:00

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banana chip muffins

2008-07-19T10:19:00.011+08:00

we had banana chip muffins (recipe by anne williamson, found at all recipes.com) for breakfast today. i guess the first time i baked this was last year. i remember that time puteri said that she smelled something like the traditional kuih 'cucur kodok' heheee... yea right!!! the bananas had to be mashed too that's why lol... anyhow you can go here to try the cucur kodok recipe.

i was so glad to see the looks of my kids happily eating healthy homemade breakfast. that really makes me as a mother feel sooo good i tell you. see people... aren't homemade breakfast wonderful? try it and you won't regret it! in fact it was so simple-- just chuck everything in the mixing bowl cuz for muffin you only need to moisten the batter that's all then... wolla!!! the best thing is this recipe doesn't use butter, but vegetable oil instead. it took me less than 15 minutes only to prepare the batter. cooking time is +/- 25 minutes. and without you realizing it, they already finished in no time at all heheee...

kuE's note:
if you agreed with me on the goodness of having homemade breakfast, read more about this here.

the 3-tones green

2008-07-11T23:07:00.009+08:00

this is my first trial on glace icing. i am glad that it turns out o-k-a-y! it can be poured over the cake or cupcake to give a smooth glossy finish. by introducing another color icing, it is also used in making feathered icing. maybe i'll try that some other time.

kuE's cupcakes went down south

2008-06-27T09:47:00.004+08:00

as soon as i found out from CK that rose was coming to singapore from yesterday, i quickly contacted rose and make some secret arrangements with her. believe it or not... CK never try my cupcakes yet. this like kinda a mission. so on the very late tuesday evening, i baked some medium size butter cupcakes and decorate them with buttercream frosting as usual.

once its done, i placed them nicely in cake boxes. then i wrap them with aluminium foil, and again with brown papers this time. you may say it sounds troublesome, but this way especially with the aluminium foil will avoid the cupcakes from being ruin because of the surrounding heatness insya allah... i learned this from "a friend" who used to work with pizza hut before. if you are so clever enough you could notice that i also labeled the boxes with some arrow signs showing up. thats to warn people to handle the boxes with care during transportation ;)

and this pic taken via rose' camera fon, after they have opened the box hehee... sure lama giler you all wanna unwrap that kan? :) i think the cupcakes look kinda o-k-a-y, only the shape run a bit here and there on some of them. its alright, we will improve more on that in the future. the most important thing is the thought that counts AND... that they lurve my cupcakes. CK text me very early this morning. it seems that lil' yasmin ate four pieces in one go... *bigger grin*

see... its not that hard to surprise your loved ones right. as you could see, i loved surprises. some of the recent ones before this was for megat's mini birthday party. he really didn't expect that it gonna turned so special even though it was just a small party with very closed family. what when both my sisters came all the way from kl. while i send a gift box of birthday cupcakes for my cousin fek in ipoh, in april. read more about it here. plus many more. sometimes the plan was a bit screwed up like this one... hah!

so maybe you people may asked, of how did i transport those cupcakes to rose. well its all thanks to transnasional. you can discuss with the driver whether you wanna him to drop your package at transnasional counter in puduraya or hentian putra' station. simple as that! and with a very minimal service charge, it is so worth it! now for those of you people in kl who wanna try my cupcakes, just holla...

the green & white laces

2008-06-20T22:58:00.010+08:00

its been quite some time since i didn't do this signature design of mine. go here, here and here to view more of this designs. so when my cousin kak roza ordered some cupcakes just for 'makan-makan', with the 'apa-apa je lah' (anything) design and colour, i make them my own way... like for kechik's order last time (the one for guest), when you said 'apa-apa', so there goes apa-apa hehee...

this time kak roza's orders are in medium size. it was kinda tricky though to do some quite small swirly designs, compared to the one that i usually do in much bigger size.

together in that one batch of dough i also made some to be sent to a local club's cafe here in kuale. the cafe lady wants to sell my cupcakes there alhamdulillah... according to her it seems the cafe is quite busy in the morning for breakfast or morning break especially to government offices people nearby, bankers and also public. so for her its better if she could sell and help me to promote my cupcakes too. i will be sending my cupcakes there every two days, starting today insya allah... the cafe is closed on saturdays. i will blog about the club some other time. so make sure you come back here to find out about it. who knows maybe you can drop-by at the club's cafe when you are in town ;)

dual tone colours cupcakes

2008-06-18T15:21:00.001+08:00

this is my first (dual tone) trial , inspired by this one by jennypbj.

perak colours cupcakes

2008-06-18T15:07:00.002+08:00

we wanna visit an auntie (my mom's elder sis) in the hospital shortly. so i made these as she is so eager for my cupcakes. they are in perak colours (white, yellow & black) as requested by mom :)

the many boy faces cupcakes

2008-06-01T15:49:00.008+08:00

blimey! what a great co-incidence that this special 100th' post is about megat's birthday cupcakes. and as usual, here's a screenshot of my blogspot' dashboard as a proof.

alright then... while we are waiting for lil' safiya, let me show you people of megat's birthday cupcakes--

this time its chocolate cupcakes, recipe found from here.

while the cupcakes design were inspired by This Mama Cooks!' baby face cupcakes. even though she make those for baby shower, i find that they are suitable for boys too :0)

actually i did dream of trying to make ben 10' cupcakes using fondant; but unfortunately i am not good at sculpturing it yet like this ipoh mali gal huhu... anyhow, what ever it is, i don't care ler as long as megat lurves them too! ;) go here to view the mini birthday party pics.

kuE's note:
go here and here to see what i baked for megat on the same day last year :)

teacher's day cupcakes

2008-05-22T23:26:00.013+08:00

today i baked teacher's day cupcakes for megat's class teacher. he gonna bring this tomorrow, for their school's teacher's day celebration. the best thing was i didn't remember that the class teacher for this year is a guy. so at first i already thought of piping cute florals on the cupcakes. luckily megat reminded me on our way back from his school-- "ma, my lǎo shī this year is a guy. so what cupcakes you gonna do for him?". "o ya.. i will think of something", i told him.

so here you go... face cupcakes for lǎo shī--

the designs are all inspired by the many wonderful face cupcakes pics on flickr.

i am so glad that megat is so happy with my creations. he also said that he is so proud of me, for doing all the wonderful things for him. owh dear... how sweet of you! i guess thats because mama lurve you so much!!! mwahh...

and as usual, of course i have to make some extras for the kids. well, besides that, guess who loves cupcakes too? hehe... anyhow i decided to keep those for breakfast tomorrow, just to surprise them :) meaning that i didn't tell them that i have some extras. if you could see, i love to surprise people!

kuE's note:
if you are interested with this, then you may go here and here to view my past creations for teacher's day.

carrot cake cupcakes

2008-04-27T18:51:00.014+08:00

everyone had these for tea time today--

carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

i have been wanted to try and bake this type of cake for ages. you know... i always like the one by secret recipes. the bad thing was i have always thought that it contains quite a number of ingredients hehe... now you know that i am a bit lazy there... hah!

i was so damn happy last night when suddenly i found a simple carrot cake cupcake recipe here, while browsing the net. so for sure i didn't wait no more-- printed the recipe right away and decided to bake it today. what when the recipe mentioned that it produces moist miniature carrot cakes owh... who could resist that right? the cupcakes really moist, everyone love them! as usual we even shared some with our long time punjabi neighbour. i just hope that they like it too. i decorated the cupcakes with cream cheese frosting hmm... yummy!!!...

here's the recipe--

ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 cups finely shredded carrots (a food processor is great for this)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 large eggs

directions

preheat oven to 350 degrees. line cupcake pans with paper liners if desired.

combine all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. mix at low speed for 30 seconds,

scraping bowl constantly while mixing. mix at high speed for 3 minutes, scraping bowl every minute.

pour batter into cupcake liners until they are 1/2 to 2/3 full.

bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

cool 10 minutes in pans then move to wire rack to cool completely.

kuE's note:
i do happily intend to share some of the recipes that i have tried, found online etc. but sorry to say that i can't share my butter and chocolate cake/cupcakes and buttercream frosting recipe, as that's my secret! ;)
to tell you the truth-- i didn't go for any professional cake making courses in the first place. all that what i have done so far were based on some trial-and-error-basis. you can always find the recipes online. there are so many baking sites with recipes out there. tqsm for the understanding.

ever seen 50,000 cupcakes?!!

2008-04-26T17:08:00.006+08:00

not me! believer it or not... many of the university of maryland students helped to set up the cupcakes, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of maryland day. check out the 50,000 cupcakes being set up here! *glurp*

kuE's note: pic courtesy of cupcakequeen.

peanut butter cookies

2008-04-23T15:32:00.021+08:00

i have been longing to try to bake this type of cookies... so i googled for a simple one. eventually i found a recipe thats kind of easy and not much ingredients to use here. mother and grandma ate some as soon as the cookies came out fresh from the ovens. they are my real testers hehe...

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 1/4 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

cream the butter for 2 minutes. add the sugars, cream for 2 more minutes. mix in the peanut butter and egg. mix together the dry ingredients - flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. stir into the sugar butter mixture.
wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate at least 3 hours.
preheat oven to 375°F. shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork. Bake until light brown, 9 to 10 minutes. cool on baking sheets for a minute; transfer to rack to cool completely.

makes about 2 dozen cookies (i got mine of about 50 pieces).

for chewier cookies, bake at 300°F for 15 minutes (i did this, thus it was right!).

kuE's note:
hmm... i lurveeeee it!!! its really tasteful and chewy, nice... good to be eaten with milk later for tea time ;)

please vote for your preferred type of cupcake top

2008-04-20T08:34:00.003+08:00

when i baked fek's surprise birthday cupcakes about two weeks ago, i just simply iced the extra cupcakes with buttercream frosting. then i sprinkled red colour sprinkles on top (ref pic below). puteri lurve it! she said that she likes that one better i.e. natural look (?) than the smooth type, which "looks sooo perfect" hehe...

so people tell me of which one do you prefer--

get your own poll!

choc cake with basket weave design

2008-04-19T08:47:00.003+08:00

argghhh!!!... its been ages (?) since the last time i baked big cakes. as some of you people know, i am so into cupcakes! a primary school teacher called me on last monday to order a chocolate cake-- basically the most important thing was she told me that she wanted chocolate cake, and the rest i.e. colour, design etc., was "up to you"... hah! that was the difficult part. so here's the end result--

kuE's note: click on the image for a larger pic.

since there's no particular specs provided, i just did it my own way hehe... i decorated the side of the round cake with basket weave design that i learned from this site. that was in fact my second trial though. the first one was during last raya (see here).

i felt so relieved that everything turned OOOkay... *phew* the cake is now ready to be collected at 11am.

ice cream cone cupcakes

2008-04-13T20:08:00.009+08:00

nothing to do on a sunday, suddenly felt to try a hand to bake these--

inspired by all the great cupcakes pics on flickr i.e. here. the frosting a bit soft this time, thus the not-so-nice-swirl 8)

look at how my nephew shahriman 'ate' the cupcake hehe... *slurp!* its as though he ate it like a real ice cream lol... :~)

as you could see people, earlier the kids dunno that i was baking these. it was a surprise for them you see. i was just finished baking, when shahriman arrived at noon with his grandparents and brother didin. so i quickly kept the ice cream cone cupcakes in a plastic container and hide them.

i only made the buttercream frosting when it was time for tea. kids were busy watching tv. once i have ready and placed the cupcakes nicely on a plate with doily paper, i called them. they were like-- "ahhhhh..." and "ohhhhh..."

don't you people think that this is great to be served for a kid's birthday party?

fek's 30th birthday cupcakes

2008-04-08T15:07:00.009+08:00

i baked these cupcakes for my cousin fek (named dara zalia) this morning--

and now i am all ready to go to ipoh with my darlings shortly with this--

kuE's note: read more about this surprise gift story here 8)

yellow theme wedding cupcakes

2008-03-23T16:19:00.005+08:00

*blog post to be followed...

cupcake chic

2008-03-07T19:43:00.012+08:00

i dropped by newly opened boutique store selling just CUPCAKES at the curve recently. the main reason i was there in kl to watch harry connick jr! hehe... the show was absolutely wonderful i tell you... i really loved it! read more about it here.

alright back to our main topic here, the prices are quite attractive. go here for the list of menu and prices. just like coffee beans' cupcakes, i would rather let you all compare the taste of their cupcakes yourself. i do not wanna be labeled as bias, cuz like you people know i also bake and sell cupcakes! ;)

i bought 1/2 a dozen of cupcakes there--ref. to the above pic, from top to bottom, left to right--back to basics (vanilla cake with vanilla frosting), naughty 'n nice (vanilla cake with chocolate frosting), fatal attraction (chocolate cake with chocolate frosting) and red velvet (red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting).

if some of you could still remember, i tried baking my own red velvet cupcakes before. it was sooo yummy i tell you and everyone loved them sooo much! if you people wanna know roughly of how it is like, buy one and try it yourself ya?

so what are you all waiting for people... head on down to cupcake chic now! o ya... there's one thing i would like to warn you people--in my humble opinion, i guess their staff are tooooo friendlyyyyy... hah!

pink rose garden cupcakes

2008-02-24T23:05:00.019+08:00

i have just finished baking these...

...and with that i shall call this set as 'pink rose garden cupcakes' ;)

i made this specially for one of my cashier's belated birthday. actually her birthday was on 10-feb. but since i missed it even to wish her, cuz i was damn busy in the last past weeks. i guess maybe i will surprise her tomorrow then, after our staff meeting. i just hope that she will like them :)

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25-feb updates: she really surprised and was so touched by what we have planned for her. i am so glad that she lurves it! her truthful smiles proved it all...

coffee bean's valentine's cupcakes

2008-02-20T22:36:00.008+08:00

woh... looks like it's been quite some time since i didn't post anything here people :|

life has been so hectic i tell you... so while i was in ipoh earlier (for work of course), i managed to drop-by CB to buy my fav drink. i usually bought it if i have to drive home alone at night. as one of the regular customers there, the staff have been treated me well. they also know that i bake cupcakes. my wish now is to venture via their market. well, we'll see how far will this go...

besides my fav drink, i also bought two butter orange & poppy seed cupcakes, that cost at RM3.80/pc. its beautifully decorated with smooth royal icing to spread the message of LOVE! try it people...

are you ready for valentine's?

2008-02-01T09:21:00.001+08:00

guess what people... soon, i'll be making valentine's day cookies insya allah... normally i make a large tray every year for closed family and friends. after dinner, we all sit around and scarf down the cookies while talking about how much we don't need the calories... hah!

i make my cookies from scratch, but i use the traditional all-purpose flour, dairy and other ingredients. nothing like the valentine's day cookies made by the San Francisco Cookie Company. they use heart-healthy oats, whole grains and organic dairy. that would make one heck of a fabulous gourmet cookie!!! they even offer corporate gift boxes!!! what a yummy treat for your employees! you could also order some for valentine's day gifts ;)

check them out and see how they compare to yours. you can even consider it research which cancels out any and all calories. right? right?

hey, that's my story and i'm sticking to it! :o)

OLD club 1st gathering

2008-01-27T21:29:00.001+08:00

yay! to Our Little Design (OLD) Club's 1st gathering:--
date: 26 january 2007 (saturday)
time: +/- 4 to 6pm
location: marche movenpick, the curve

kuE's note:
group pic above created with dumpr.net - fun with your photos

i was the earliest to reach there, all thanks to the community programme in grik that has been rescheduled to friday evening.

so once i reached home from the grik trip, i baked some of my signature design cupcakes (of course!) in pink (OLD club colour); packed them individually in silver butterfly clear plastic boxes. i didn't post about this in the blog as soon as i baked them as usual, because i wanna surprise all the great ladies that i met that day. i just hope that they like my kind of butter cupcakes with buttercream frosting. for me, i just love all the gifts that i received from them. we definitely gonna do this again for sure.

all i could say about that evening is that i really can't express the excitement meeting the ladies of OLD club in words. i guess i will just let the pics do the talking-bear my tired eyes, cuz i have been working so hard--

oh yes... i just wanna tell you people also that i met one of my sister's kl flickr friend, han ghazi. hmm... how do i expect that although i baked the kl flickr cupcakes almost a year ago, i still got great feedbacks about it. eventually han is one of my cupcakes fan hehe... so i gave out the balance cupcakes that i brought to her. how glad i am to see another happy face there :)

i will be there right on time!

2008-01-16T21:08:00.000+08:00

yes! finally... thanks to a team mate in grik who decided to reschedule the event at his place to friday 25-jan., instead of saturday. read more about it here. so ladies... see you all there... occay? ;)

like mother like daughter...

2007-12-27T22:39:00.001+08:00

from the title itself don't you people think that puteri could bake all by herself too? well ya... i am so proud of her. i hope that she will inherit this passion of mine wisely. go here, here, here and here to view some of the bakes that puteri did.

this time puteri baked chocolate mud cupcakes. earlier she knew that i wanna bake more cupcakes tonight to be sold here. so while i was still at work, i received a sms from her around 7pm telling me that she wished to baked chocolate mud cupcakes herself; with the guidance by her mama of course ;)

so there we are people (refer above pic)... chocolate mud cupcakes (left) and butter cupcakes (right). we have tried the one that puteri baked -- not bad at all. the only thing is that she should have placed the batter approximately 1/2 to 3/4 full of the paper cups, then it should be fulled enough. well i guess its occay for puteri to learn from her mistakes. if i'm not mistaken that was the first time she baked cupcakes though. before this she only helped me to mix the ingredients. whatever it is as usual megat lurves it!!! you know kids... they can't live without chocolate lol... hey! same here tehehee...

kuE's cupcakes sold here

2007-12-22T21:31:00.002+08:00

yes people... if you are craving for my cupcakes and happened to be around here, just holla! you can buy them as low as one piece only. but its all depends on your luck though as the cupcakes are selling fast alhamdulillah...

fyi its been almost a week now since i first started to sell my cupcakes at our premise. i just placed them at the cashier' counter, in a clear box covered container (refer pic) for an easy view. that way really attracted our customers ;) the best thing is they were kind of stunned after found out from my cashier of whom the cupcake baker lol... why? tarak percaya ka kikikiii...

well actually i baked some engagement cupcakes for two orders by kay's friend last night. i only frosted the cupcakes early this morning. then as soon as my lil' sis helped me to pack them nicely, she (kay's friend) came to pick-up her order. i was like wahhhhh... i didn't even have the chance to take pics yet!!! so after she left, i quickly sms kay to ask her friend to snap some pics for me. i really hope that she did. once done of course i wanna load them in flickr and here :)

so basically the engagement cupcakes were not that much different from the one in the pic especially in terms of the colour. the one above (refer pic) were some extras that i baked to be sold in our premise.

the 17th dec' birthday cupcakes

2007-12-17T14:54:00.002+08:00

my sister and puteri shared the same birth date. so here i am... just uploaded the birthday cupcakes pics in flickr and here. this time with 2.5 sticks butter, i baked approximately half butter and half chocolate cupcakes from it. the trick was, i blended the whole thingy (in other word: ingredients) with mixer as usual. then after i added the flour, i placed half of the batter in a mixing bowl. i used the one in the mixing bowl as my butter cupcakes. while the one in the mixer, i let it to continue mixing for chocolate cupcakes hehe... kewl... i saved some time there ;)

with that, i did two sets of colours for the buttercream frosting. my sister's one was pink and white. as you could see in the pic, one cupcakes missing there. why? i guess i will blog about it later in my main blog. if i carry on writing, i will stuck here for hours lol... tak lah :)

while the other set was for puteri, thats in purple and white. but unfortunately i am so sorry that the pics did not do any justice at all. it looks grey (?) in here.

i placed the birthday cupcakes in two cupcake tiers that i bought at ICCA, the same day i attended christmas cupcakes class. it looks so cute and presentable, even auntie yan asked me to buy for her too, if happened i go there again ;)

since the new cupcake tier only can fit 13 cupcakes, i placed the rest of the cupcakes in other cake tiers that we bought during last raya.

all in all, i am glad that everyone loves my cupcakes. some of the guest even asked me whether they could bring some home ;)

red velvet cupcakes...

2007-12-16T20:38:00.002+08:00

...topped with cream cheese frosting. its sooo yummy, that not just kids love them, but adults too! recipe found from here.

it was my first time baking red velvet cupcakes. previously i always saw pictures of them in my flickr cupcakes group. i could say that i have been sooo eager to try it one day. so here we are, on my mom's 59th birthday, no birthday cupcakes, but only this. i am gonna bake birthday cupcakes tonight anyway for puteri and my sis' birthday tomorrow.

eventually who ever came to me would say this-- "hah?!!... its sooo... red!!!", thats include both puteri and megat, and my sister hehee... yes she's here, since we came back from kl that sunday night, after watched the jazz show of live & loud '07 on a friday.

btw back to the 'red colour cupcakes', normally only cupcake bakers are aware about this type of cupcakes ;) like i said earlier, adults love it too including me! its sooo yummy... especially when the cupcakes really blend well with the cream cheese frosting. it was my first time making that type of frosting too. lurve it! it was very nice. even my cousin sarah whose also a doctor, ate the whole thingy with no worries at all of her diet :P

my lacey cupcakes in turqoise/aqua (?)

2007-11-29T23:48:00.003+08:00

look at that people... normally here in this blog i posted food pics only. my readers know that its very rare for me to post any other pics. well its different this time. as you could see i looked so happy, after managed to decorate my cupcakes in turqoise/aqua colour.

the story: i did'nt tell anyone at home of what colour i wanna do. once i have done, i asked mom about what colour of frosting that she was looking at. i was like... "yippeee!", when she said turqoise immediately without need the time to think. that means, one mission accomplished here hehe... then my mom asked, "why?". so i told her that i juz wanna make sure that i got the colour i wanted right :)

"turquoise is normally a mix of green and blue, so depending on what exact shade you want to achieve, you will need both pale green and pale blue gel colours. add a dab of each and mix thoroughly, then adjust according to how you want the colour, more green, or more blue..."

i would like to say tqsm to Just Cupcakes! for the tips of making this colour i.e. turqoise/aqua

kechikkkkk!!!... what say you? ;)

btw these are all for my loved ones in kl. and as usual, my only wish is that they will like my cupcakes...

"KL AGAIN?", you asked? well yes... this time i am going here. say hi if you see me k? hehe...

mint chocolate cupcakes

2007-11-25T16:59:00.001+08:00

i have been dying to try this recipe from the book 500 cupcakes & muffins by fergal connolly. it taste good... and hmm... whats more when the hershey's chocolate chips i used in the cupcakes melted... it make the cupcakes kinda moist, just like the moist chocolate cake. yummy... i guess thats why i read somewhere that we are advised to use a good quality chocolate to get the great taste! btw mom commented that it taste like a toothpaste lol...

i completed this after lunch, just on time for our tea time ;) so what about you people? what you had with your tea today?

kuE's related links:
cookies & cream cupcakes
peanut butter cupcakes

more cupcakes order going off to kl

2007-11-19T21:10:00.001+08:00

this is all thanx to kak zaireen. after the first time she bought three boxes of Box of 9 during raya, she really promote my cupcakes to all her friends in kl. i know... why ordered here all the way in kuale, and not in kl itself? well... the most important thing here is that they like my cupcakes ;)

kak zaireen called me last week to place an order. i was so glad though that her friend wanted to buy my cupcakes for her son's birthday on this wednesday. since they didn't give any specs, only "apa-apa" (anything), i assume that its for guest. here's what i managed to do for her, blue & purple cupcakes, with a touch of yellow--

blue & yellow cupcakes

purple & yellow cupcakes

this one for kak zaireen

kuE's related links:
feedback
pink theme cupcakes for kak zaireen

the day i attended a christmas cupcakes course

2007-11-15T19:20:00.001+08:00

as soon as i arrived from kuale around noon, i drove right away to section 14 in pj, where ICCA located. i dropped-by secret recipe, that was only a few doors away from ICCA; for lunch. the class started from 1pm.

for those who dunno, i am a self-taught cupcakes maker. thus... i attended such class for the first time not just for the fun of it, but also to broaden my knowledge. besides that i also got the chance to have more circle of friends. back to the class, fyi that was the first time i tried a hand on fondant. it was fun and i enjoyed it so much!

i plan to go for more classes in the future. these are their schedule to-date (subject to change) --

january 2008

12(Sat) creative cupcakes! workshop I (basic level)
10.30am - 1.00pm, venue: desa sri hartamas

19(Sat) creative cupcakes! workshop I (basic level)
10.30am - 1.00pm, venue: desa sri hartamas

february 2008

23(Sat) creative cupcakes! workshop I (basic level)
11.00am - 1.30pm, venue: PJ sec 14

anyone wanna join me? click here for more info on the cupcakes class schedule.

alright people, am going to meet someone special tonight. she has just called me. it was supposed to be a surprise actually. but unfortunately things turned out the other way round. i will blog more about it in my main blog, after i met her ;)

girlish cupcakes for puteri's class party

2007-11-13T23:33:00.001+08:00

a few weeks ago, i baked cupcakes with names for megat's classmates, together with his teachers. this time around is puteri's turn...

this is a pic of my work table. far behind were my two ovens and my new kenwood mixer ;)

these cupcakes were individually packed in a round clear box, ready to go for puteri's year-end class party tomorrow. all were pink, maroon and a touch of yellow for girls.

a close-up of one of the cupcakes.

these five were among all the girlish cupcakes i did for puteri's class party

cookies & cream cupcakes

2007-11-11T19:01:00.001+08:00

this is again, from the book 500 cupcakes & muffin by fergal connolly. previously i tried peanut butter cupcakes. it was a hit i tell you. it finished by afternoon, the following day. take note that with a stick of butter, i can make an approximately more than 2 dozens of cupcakes. owh!... i so lurve this book, wait till i try more and more recipes.

in fact this morning i baked cookies & cream cupcakes. so when we say cookies and cream, its always synonym with oreo cookies! thus... i guess we could also called it oreo cupcakes. besides not just my kids, i love it sooo much too! we have all tried it. although its sooo sweet but we love it hmm.... yummy!!!... you could see it from megat's expression (right pic). especially puteri
and megat, whose eaten more than 3 pieces. yes! you read it right. they have ate 3 or more. after i snapped megat's pic, he told me that he wants to bring 3 of them to school tomorrow, for him to share them with his best friends. "you always make me proud mama!", megat told me ;)

multi-colour floral cupcakes

2007-11-07T17:22:00.002+08:00

actually i baked more deepavali cupcakes this morning, to be given away to our indian friends. i also baked extra cupcakes for me to practise my piping skills, to make these--

wahh... looking back at my baking blog posting, looks like i have been baking three days in a row!

so, what do you people think of my multi-colour floral cupcakes? wohoo... what a colour huh?!! lol...

i placed all of these in an air-tight plastic container. then mom told me that she wanted all of those for some friends. it seems for her that its cute even though it has more than one or two colours of the floral hehe... anyhow thanks a lot mother for supporting me all this while!

deepavali cupcakes

2007-11-06T22:19:00.001+08:00

happy deepavali!

these cupcakes are for our neighbour and indian friends. i really hope that they will like my cupcakes -- not just for the henna design (read more about it here), but also the taste too!

this is all thanks to taste goblet for the great inspiration and most importantly, for letting me try a hand on the design ;) tqsm!!!

kuE's related links:
kuE's henna-ed cupcakes

peanut butter cupcakes

2007-11-05T20:17:00.001+08:00

its been a week since our premise is (temporarily) closed for some renovation works. thus... i decided to bake this peanut butter cupcakes for tea time, just before i fetch puteri from school. so we dropped by a mini supermarket in town to buy butter right away!

i followed the recipe from the book 500 cupcakes & muffins by fergal connolly. its yummy i tell you, no matter with or without the peanut butter icing. at first i thought of making some swirls like what the book suggested. unfortunately the crunchy peanut butter i was using got a lil' bit of peanuts. but although its tiny, i still didn't manage to do it. besides that, the icing was a bit soft and creamy. at last i just spread it out onto the cupcakes ;)

of still in the raya mood...

2007-10-31T22:42:00.001+08:00

some of you people may know that i hate last min.! the secretary of my former primary school's PTA text me last night about us having a committee meeting at 3pm today grr... but since i am a strong lady, i would still try to do the best of me, regards of anything.

despite of that, also since i was a bit free, with no work (temporarily), i baked some raya cupcakes this morning, to be brought to the meeting. i was so glad that they love my cupcakes so much. i guess it was all based on the 'Q' of our cupcakes that mentioned before here. some even thought of ordering in the near future ;)

kuE's related links:
the day i am still baking raya cupcakes...
more hari raya '07 cupcakes...
hari raya'07 cupcakes

ring-around-the-rosy cupcakes

2007-10-26T23:34:00.001+08:00

this one no one's, inspired by betty crocker's -- simply trying the technique ;)

i guess its perfect for polka-dot theme too! what say you?

kuE's update, about 12 hours later:
mom loves my latest creation ;)
so this two boxes of box of 9 have been nicely packed for a local maybank's manager, as a gift from us. he will pick this up later on his way back from the ocpd's raya open house. i am going there shortly too! alright then... byeee!!!...

cupcakes with names...

2007-10-23T08:43:00.001+08:00

we baked these last night as a raya treat for megat's classmate. the best thing was, megat thought of bringing some raya goodies for them last week when the school re-open on wednesday. how ler... to give them a piece of cookies each. so i told megat that its better for us to give them cupcakes! megat was sooo excited... he was so happy too when i helped him to bring them to the school this morning.

"thank you mama. i love you so much..." , he said. i love you too! mwahhh...

while this one for the teachers...

as usual, my signature design cupcakes ;)

kechik's engagement cupcakes

2007-10-19T11:32:00.002+08:00

i really hope that she will like them... but dunno ler whether she will view this first before i reach there this evening ;)

these brown and white lacey cupcakes (thats also my signature design) are for one of the hantaran (gifts)--
while these multi-colour floral cupcakes are for the guest--

cupcakes care

2007-10-19T01:44:00.001+08:00

our cupcakes (and cookies) are made by hand and are baked to order. they are sent fresh out of the oven, so they should be served sooner than later. you can place our cupcakes in an air tight container and keep them at room temperature or put them in the fridge, but make sure they’re at room temperature when you eat them!

feedback

2007-10-16T11:17:00.001+08:00

kak zaireen called me yesterday. but i only managed to return her call this morning. unfortunately she was unable to talk though. so she sent me sms not too long after that--

hi kuE, kak zaireen xde suara tadi masa jawab ur call, sorry. anyway i wanted 2 order 5 more boxes. mm... everyone loved your cupcakes... even my mum nk belajar ur recipe nk buat utk yusoff (kak zaireen's son) hehe. hope u can make more 4 me... i m goin 2 try promote it for you :-)

oikk... if you (kak zaireen) wanna more cupcakes ok... but about the recipe (read here too) hmm... NAH... i dun think so ler... i guess let it just be my secrets lar k?

pink theme cupcakes for kak zaireen

2007-10-14T19:45:00.002+08:00

i am so glad that kak zaireen loves her cupcakes. she told me to bake for her as much as i could, but at least she needs a minimum of three boxes of box of 9. she understand my situation as she saw me at work ;) anyhow i managed to bake five boxes for her! plus one extra for grandmother, who wanted to give someone as a gift.

kak zaireen dropped-by just on time, when i wanted to arrange the cupcakes in the boxes accordingly (refer right pic). after the 'kiss-kiss', she smiled, looking at all those cupcakes.

an uncle and his family from taman melawati in kl were here too that time. he kept asking whether i did some extras for him to buy.

but... suddenly kak zaireen said, "its alright. i korbankan two boxes...", while pushed two boxes towards them.

"how about you?", they asked.

" i could ask kuE to bake more and pass them to her sister on wednesday".

kuE's related link:
the day i am still baking raya cupcakes...

the day i am still baking raya cupcakes...

2007-10-13T23:01:00.001+08:00

...while everyone were celebrating raya. thats right. our house was full of guest, while i was busy in the kitchen, decorating raya cupcakes for kay's auntie this morning. take note that i didn't take pic of her order cuz its the same with my raya cupcakes sample. the one on the left was my sis, arranging truffle made by her, and raya cupcakes made by me.

a cousin-in-law, kak zaireen was very interested, after she tasted one. she immediately ordered five boxes of box of 9. since she's gonna go back to kl tomorrow, i had to bake hers tonight. as you could see, i am in the mid of baking while i took the chance to blog lol... ;) anyhow i will only do the frosting tomorrow morning though, as kak zaireen will only be going back in the afternoon. so do not forget to check-out pics of her pink theme cupcakes tomorrow hehe...

kuE's related link:
more hari raya '07 cupcakes...
hari raya'07 cupcakes

kuE's note:
more pics of the above can be viewed here, here, here and here.

more hari raya '07 cupcakes...

2007-10-12T21:10:00.001+08:00

life's been pretty busy this week. you could see that there's been no updates here nor there.

i have been started baking and delivering the raya cupcakes since wednesday, whole day, non-stop -- most of our orders were from ipoh :) but i am still able to smile hehe... collage pics above were part of the pics taken since then i.e. top and middle row cupcakes been delivered yesterday, while the last row' have been safely delivered today. i will be baking more cupcakes later for local orders.

regards to the above pics also, i was so happy that i managed to try to pipe-out basket weave design (top row, middle) that i learned from here. i know its cute but of course more time needed for that :P

kuE's related link:
hari raya'07 cupcakes

kuE's update on 13-oct:
more pics of the above can be viewed here, here, here and here.

kuE's kenwood patissier mx270

2007-10-09T21:51:00.002+08:00

finally... i bought myself this machine (RM1,339.00) to help us in the kitchen. well actually i didn't think of getting it today. it was all just by co-incidence ;) but of course its already in my wish list for quite some time.

i had to go and collect some of the pos material from our ISO. as usual we took the chance to drop-by kinta city. at first i was so happy that i found 2-pieces cake tier set that i have been looking for. i bought 2 sets of those. in my case, i wanna use it to display my cupcakes. maybe i will start using it during this upcoming hari raya hehe... can't wait! i will load pics then.

after we kept our things that we bought earlier in the car, we went back to the mall again, when puteri and my sis told me that they saw quite a number of nice and cute mixer on sale. arrghhh!!!... i knew it that i really need one, to make my life easier :)

the product on display was red in colour. i chose white instead, as it could match most of our baking stuff i.e. our oven is white. owh... i dunno whether i could sleep well tonight. the thing is... am gonna start baking the hari raya cupcakes orders very soon!

o yes... would you all people believe me that all this while we mixed the ingredients all by ourselves, by hand hehe... i told this to kechik when we met a few weeks ago. she was like-- "haa?!!". lol...

multi-colour swirl cupcakes

2007-10-04T22:56:00.001+08:00

we baked birthday cupcakes for a surprise again! hehe... told ya that i love to see the happy faces. last sunday we did for our TAM's and it was indeed a success. we will see how it goes this time ;)

take note that i ain't use wilton's size 1M tip though. i only use size 852 tip from a local shop selling baking stuff lol... looks like i gotta practise more and more and more and...

alhamdulillah...

2007-09-30T23:31:00.002+08:00

...that our small business from home is picking up--

these set of birthday cupcakes are for our TAM (of course the N7 team is paying me hehe...). we gonna do a surprise for him tomorrow, during our buka puasa meet in ipoh. we'll see how it goes ;) ermm... how i love to surprise people and make them happy. do not forget to read my main blog for the updates.
while these sets of cupcakes are orders made for jen nee of rentokil (left) and liling of our ISO (right). for those who dunno, its been a while since i didn't do this pattern, that is like our signature. to view more pics with this pattern/design, type 'trademark' on the top left corner of the blog page. after that click 'search blog', then... voila! ;)

kuE's henna-ed cupcakes

2007-09-29T00:01:00.001+08:00

this post is specially dedicated to taste goblet.

i was blog hopping few days ago when i saw this that really inspired me to try a hand on it. at first i thought that its a great idea for deepavali. but since i was gonna bake some cupcakes for little miss kechik... hey! why not -- on another thought, let me give myself a try on that design at the same time too ;) *phew* terketor-ketor jugak ler lol...

so what do you think people? ok or not :D

and here it is--

a box of 9 cupcakes, packed, and all ready for little miss kechik! we just hope that you will like it. anyway c ya!...

cupcakes rings

2007-09-18T13:12:00.001+08:00

check-out our new cupcakes rings people -- that we bought from maggie t at gurney plaza, about two weeks ago. cute tak? i know, i know... am supposed to complete the story about my grandma's surprise birthday. don't worry people. no matter what it is, soon or later, i will still update more about it at my main blog. as for me, i am posting this now, as i only realized about it when i was browsing thru my pictures file just now ;)

the 'Q' of our cupcakes

2007-09-17T21:55:00.001+08:00

as mentioned earlier in my main blog, we were in ipoh to deliver some samples of raya cupcakes for kay. we took the chance to drop-by kinta city while we were there. we also bought more baking stuff for the upcoming raya seasons, to fulfill the orders.

we care a great deal about quality of our cupcakes! as you could see from the pic, those are three of the main items/products that we use i.e. quality ingredients like MFM self raising flour and castor and icing sugar by gula prai, also fresh eggs from a local market and fresh milk by dutch lady. thats the best! if i can't get them, i would rather don't do any baking at all. so now you all know of how important it is for us to get a good type of ingredients for baking. while for butter, we use anchor brand (formerly fernleaf). we do not use trans fatty oils or preservatives. we really care about the quality of what we serve you. in fact, you will often see us eating our cupcakes and sampling frostings. while it’s a great perk, we all do this to make sure what we are serving is exactly what it should be! we think you will taste the quality. these cupcakes are the real deal!

hari raya '07 cupcakes

2007-09-16T23:21:00.001+08:00

grandma's 80th birthday cuppies

2007-09-07T23:53:00.001+08:00

we have just finished baking and decorating some butter cupcakes, specially for bah's 80th birthday this sunday. actually we gonna bring those with us to penang tomorrow. but its just gonna be like a small surprise for her during our sunday breakfast there. read more here.

till then... i hope that you will have a great weekend with your loved ones.

alright people, i gtg now... ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... lol ;)

kuE's note : tqsm to little miss kechik for introducing me to picasa's collage by google.

betty crocker, double chocolate chunk cookie mix

2007-09-03T21:09:00.001+08:00

i reached home today with another great smell of cookies hmm... yummy!!!... this time puteri baked double chocolate chunk cookie mix by betty crocker (again).

its more easy than the one puteri did recently. you will only need to add 1/4 cup vegetable oil, 2 tbsp water and 1 egg together with the cookie mix, that's all! only that its a bit sweeettttt... ;)

betty crocker, chocolate chip cookie mix

2007-09-01T22:29:00.001+08:00

i was just stepping in to the house from work earlier, when i smelled hmm... chocolate chip cookies!!! yummy... this time puteri tried the chocolate chip cookie mix by betty crocker. actually we bought that quite sometime ago at cold storage, ikano power center. the thing was when i took the package, i didn't read the labels properly that i thought its chocolate chips. i only realized it when puteri told me that it was easy - she just need to stir 1 stick of softened butter and 1 egg in to the cookie mix until soft dough forms, then walla!...

yummy...

its so crispy and perfect to eat with a glass of milk

malaysiaku gemilang

2007-08-31T19:54:00.001+08:00

as you could see, we didn't want to be left out baking merdeka themed stuff especially for the 50th merdeka day celebration. while i was half way making the logo, i brought it in front of the tv while watching this! lol...

this time we baked one round butter cake. i was upstairs when i heard the oven rang 'ting', meaning that the baking time
setting has stop.

at first we thought of decorating it nicely. i took some time to come down. when i did, the cake was left half only. relatives who were here can't resist to eat it. so they took the cake out and cut it themself. it seems that its good to be eaten fresh from the oven :P

the technique i did for the logo is called 'frozen buttercream transfer'. that was my first attempt doing it you know. its an easy way to make a design for the top of a cake, because it is prepared 'off-cake', it doesn't matter if it goes wrong first time. if you don't have cling wrap/film to hand, you can use greaseproof paper instead.

make the top design first. place a sheet of cling film on top. pipe over the outline of the design accordingly.
fill in the outline using bags filled with different coloured icing. if you are using greaseproof piping bags, you don't need to use piping nozzles. simply fold over the end of the bag to close it and to force the icing down towards the end. the snip a tiny triangle off the end.
lay another sheet of cling film over the top of the design. place a second cake board on top and gently squeeze together. turn the whole thing over and remove the uppermost board. using a soft circular motion, gently rub the buttercream through the cling film so that the icing fills all the gaps. prick any air bubbles with a pin to remove them. place in the freezer for at least two hours.
to prepare the cake, make sure the top of the cake is as flat as possible.
when the design is frozen, remove the cake board and peel away the bottom layer of cling film. place the design on top of the cake and peel away the top sheet of cling film.

helpful tip: you can prepare your top design up to a month in advance and store it in the freezer.

source: parragon kids' party ideas

sports theme

2007-07-01T13:10:00.002+08:00

other than the ball game cupcakes, i also baked big number "8" cake for megat's birthday party yesterday. i woke-up late today around 9.30 am - tired flat lol... i only manage to load these pics today as i can't seems to have the energy to stay longer last night, to update this blog.

we were surely glad that guest loves the cupcakes so much. in fact they were kinda surprised that we did all the cakes ourselves ;)

kuE's related links:
while this is the day i baked these...
today i baked these...

while this is the day i baked these...

2007-06-29T20:53:00.001+08:00

wanna join me for basketball or tennis game this time people? ;)

kuE's related links:
today i baked these...

today i baked these...

2007-06-28T21:25:00.001+08:00

so which one is your choice - football or baseball? ;)

pink & white lacey cupcakes

2007-06-27T20:07:00.002+08:00

i was in ipoh for a whole day meeting held at impiana casuarina hotel (formerly known as casuarina park royal ipoh) today. at the same time i brought these cupcakes along that ordered by kak wan. tqsm kak wan for the order. i did "our trademark pattern" ;) there were some oohhhsss... and aahhhsss... from others. and looks like am gonna have more orders in the near future :D

kuE's related links:
blue & white cupcakes for ayah chu
our trademark
blink... blink

orange

2007-06-22T22:35:00.001+08:00

i met SIL' auntie in ipoh last saturday during zaf's wedding. she asked me to bake some cupcakes for her and bring to kl tomorrow. there's no specific colour or pattern. its all up to me, as she just loves cupcake. it seems that she ate quite a number of them during my bro's wedding here last time.

so here it is auntie, specially for you... our cupcakes decorated with orange butter cream frosting with a few silver dragées on top. we just hope that you like them-

as usual we also baked some extras. this time i thought to bring some for someone special in kl too ;) who you may asked. well just hope that the person(s) is/are available for a while will do, if not long, for me to present the cupcakes.

alright... enjoy your weekend with your loved ones people! ciao...

the truth

2007-06-17T23:04:00.000+08:00

kuE's note: click here for the full details.

not necessary for valentine

2007-06-13T23:31:00.001+08:00

got the inspiration from Trish's love trail, but of course hers was better.
looks like i gotta practice more ;)

race track cake for megat

2007-06-01T03:28:00.001+08:00

some of you people may know already that we were baking megat's 8th birthday cake! this time we used the book " kid's party ideas, exciting party themes your kids will love" as a reference. it was kinda fun trying to bake all these. as per the example in the book, they baked the 'number 8' cake with sport theme. but i did mine as race track instead. that's because megat's birthday party on 30th june is gonna be sports theme. so i thought we should save that type of cake for the party. confused? well since megat's birthday falls on school holidays, we have to postpone the party to a much later date. to cut the story short, most of his school friends requested it such as they wanna spend the school holidays elsewhere. thus you will know very soon of why they like to come to our party so much ;) besides that, the other two weekends after that will be spend at weddings, thats why...

so for now, we gonna have a potluck with auntie yan and enda teh, not forgetting megat's cousin at 11 am. darn! i should be sleeping by now. alright then... i will update more later maybe in my main blog. t-t-f-n !

ball game cupcakes

2007-05-30T23:53:00.001+08:00

one of my favourite books recently is this one that i bought in penang early of the month. i never feel bored flipping through the pages, looking at the colourful pages of cakes and cupcakes many times...

thus, the book inspired me to bake some cupcakes today to make these...

we were just kinda practising for megat's birthday party that gonna be held next month. we thought of doing the baking ourselves this time, that would be more meaningful.

cupcakes for teachers

2007-05-24T23:48:00.002+08:00

megat's school is celebrating teacher's day tomorrow. they were late in this cuz the students were having exams the whole of last week. so as usual megat will bring a home-made gift for his class teacher (left pic), along with a card (written in mandarin) that he bought the other day in ipoh. last year i baked shortbread biscuit. as you could see this time i baked cupcakes!!!... i frosted the cupcakes with a simple swirl design (nozzle number 852), sprinkled with coloured glitters. i guess its not that bad. my skills should be improved after some practice' ;)

while the 25 pieces cupcakes (right pic) are for me to bring to my former primary school tomorrow night. there will be a farewell dinner for one of the assistant headmistress who is retiring. since i am the pta's vice president, the school invited me too.

kuE's related links:
for teachers only

chocolate surprise cupcakes

2007-05-19T15:05:00.004+08:00

i baked this early in the morning, to try out this recipe that i found at all recipes. guess what people. i took my shower as soon as i awoke at 5.30 am, then i headed straight to the kitchen. i was kinda excited and cannot wait to bake this, cuz when i first read the recipe, i thought that it was an easy one. true! wonderful! its kinda moist and creamy. please note that even by the time i post this, my mom ate three already! btw i tried to add-up butter cream frosting on top for the fun of it. at the same time, i was trying out my skills in making the swirls hehe... (alright, what do you think of the swirls? i juz thought that it looks a lot better than my previous one of course). surprisingly, its blend nicely with the cake when eaten together ;)

one thing. this recipe do not use butter, just like the banana chip muffins i baked last month. what a co-incidence huh?!! its not that i simply wanna find a recipe without butter :P

kuE's note: click on the individual pic to view a larger image.

"rich chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese and chocolate chip center. also known as black bottom cupcakes."

kuE's related links:
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a very special one

2007-05-13T08:16:00.002+08:00

my tears was running slowly when i saw this butterfly cake. its so special because puteri baked this all by herself for me i.e. 2-in-1 -- for both my birthday and mother's day. i would like to say thank you very much to my princess for the effort mwahh... mama luv u sooo muchhhhh!

kuE's note: puteri used the book decorating cakes and cupcakes by betty crocker that we bought recently, as a guide, for her to cut a round cake into a butterfly-shaped cake ;)

happy mother's day

2007-05-13T04:16:00.002+08:00

kuE's note: actually i baked the above cupcakes last night, together with the one for my uncle. but i kept this pic to be posted on the later real date ;) hehe... just for fun!

kuE's update on 14/05/07 0840: this pic can be viewed at cupcakes take the cake blog too. tqsm ladies for featuring it there ;)

blue & white cupcakes for ayah chu

2007-05-12T15:12:00.002+08:00

we stayed-up until +/- 2.30 am this morning. mom requested us to make some cupcakes for her to bring to kl for ayah chu's (whose also her elder brother) kenduri. the design was still the one like what puteri has described before as 'our trademark'. i love it very much though... its so simple and easy to make, yet very nice.

a box of our cupcakes packed, ready to go...

this one just trying out with other design, using some of the extra cupcakes...

hey you!

2007-05-11T07:50:00.000+08:00

yes... you know who you are... told ya recently that copying others are definitely wrong. ya lar... if so that you like the cupcakes design and wanna try or do it, carry-on... but with conditions that you placed a credit for her the creator i.e. mentioned about it in your fotopages or whatever. do have the courtesy will ya?

here's someone that got IT already... and here too. beware okay?!! we have all the proofs.

banana chip muffins I

2007-05-08T07:38:00.002+08:00

last night i found out that we have bananas in the kitchen. so i thought that it should be good for something nice and simple. as usual, i logged-in to all recipes.com, one of my favourite cooking site and searched for 'banana'. it was really easy i tell you. more easy when you do not have butter in the house, but craving to eat some muffins! because this one used vegetable cooking oil instead.

i didn't omit anything, followed the recipe all the way through. baked them this morning for kids' breakfast, before they went to school. its awesome! they even asked me to pack some for them to eat during their recess time.

oh yes... as soon as puteri came down from upstairs, she said that the muffin smells like 'cucur kodok', a traditional kuih. hehe... of course dear, as it also has been made from a cup of mashed bananas ;)

so here's the recipe of banana chip muffins I by anne williamson--

"cake-like texture with the popular banana chocolate taste." (true)

original recipe yield: 1 dozen muffins

PREP TIME 10 Min
COOK TIME 25 Min
READY IN 35 Min

ingredients

* 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
* 1 egg
* 1/4 cup vegetable oil
* 1/4 cup milk
* 1 cup mashed bananas

directions

measure flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and chocolate chips into a large bowl. mix thoroughly, and make a well in the center.
beat the egg in a small bowl until frothy. mix in cooking oil, milk, and bananas.
pour mixture into the well. stir only to moisten. batter will be lumpy. fill greased muffin cups 3/4 full.
bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes.

kuE's note:
do not forget to let me know how's yours turn-up ;)

attn: malaysian cupcake makers

2007-05-05T22:36:00.001+08:00

first of all, i would say that this is a first warning for everyone -- PLEASE GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.

warning: i have no, absolutely no, intention of hurting anyone’s feelings UNLESS you do the right thing -- kindly respect other people's work i.e. do not make us ashame because of you.

thank you so much for your co-operation.

regards,
kuE!

cupcakes for the newly-wed cousin

2007-04-29T22:49:00.001+08:00

i was busy for a trip to damai laut and some jobs to be done there. don't forget to check back my main blog for the updates. anyhow we still squeeze-in some time to prepare cupcakes for my newly-wed cousin charlie and his wife before we go. they were here for another wedding reception in kuale yesterday.

we baked those cupcakes on friday night. then we kept them in some air-tight containers and placed them in the fridge. i asked mom to take it out this morning, then cool it down at room temperature. the cupcakes were just nice to have it during lunch today at home, before they went back to kl. hmm... guess what people. not enough of eating our cuppies here, they even 'tapau' some back to kl lol... while yat took back the whole plastic container with the 'C&H' initial (refer above pics: below left).

and here's a pic of part of our newly-added-extended family. pic also showed charlie there who was taking pics of our cuppies, watched by yat. oh yes... i brought some to damai laut yesterday you know. and we were glad that they all love our cuppies so much!!! ;) in fact they also asked us about the pricing already. wahhh!!!... how ler...

surprise cookies

2007-04-25T23:43:00.001+08:00

tomorrow is thursday, also a public holiday for the country. for those who dunno, its inconjunction with the installation of the sultan of terengganu, sultan mizan zainal abidin as malaysia's 13th yang di-pertuan agong (king).

thus we decided to bake surprise cookies, a kids' cookie recipe by martha stewart. more over we haven't bake cookies for quite some time already. i have tasted one juz now and hmm... its yummy... and of course, sweettt ;)

as you could see, the cookies were topped with chocolate frosting. while the surprise was the marshmallow, that was actually covered with chocolate frosting. great!

and here's the recipe...

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
12 large marshmallows, cut in half horizontally

preheat oven to 375 degrees;. in a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. add egg, milk, and vanilla, and beat until well combined. add reserved flour mixture; mix on low speed until combined.
using a tablespoon or 1 3/4-inch ice cream scoop, drop dough onto ungreased baking sheets, about 2 inches apart. bake until cookies begin to spread and become firm, 10 to 12 minutes.
remove baking sheets from oven, and place a marshmallow, cut-side down, in the center of each cookie, pressing down slightly. return to oven, and continue baking until marshmallows begins to melt, 2 to 2 1/2 minutes. transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting*.

*chocolate frosting for surprise cookies:

2 cups confectioners' sugar
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

place confectioners’ sugar in a medium bowl. whisk in butter and cocoa powder. add milk and vanilla, and whisk until well combined.
spread about 1 tablespoon of frosting over each marshmallow, starting in the center and continuing outward until marshmallow is covered.

happy baking! and yes... do not hesitate to share with us of how's yours turn-up :P

p/s by the time i post this, puteri already fast asleep :D

specially designed cupcake boxes

2007-04-23T23:57:00.000+08:00

i was browsing thru cupcake pics on flickr when i stumbled into this pic in one of the groups i joined. cute kan? its the new cupcake boxes at starbucks.

hmm... if you are clever enough you might have guess what's in my mind hehe... ;) as soon as i saw this earlier, i immediately thought of asking boxes supplier whether they would do such thing specially for me :D if yes, for sure it would be the best cupcake packaging on earth. alright whatever it is we'll see how it goes...

help/opinion needed

2007-04-19T21:00:00.001+08:00

we immediately baked cupcakes as soon as we awoke +/- 8.30am today. it was a public holiday -- sultan's birthday. we left home for sitiawan around 1.45pm. we headed straight to my cousin karina's place. it was his son amir's birthday party. there were so many guest from far and near. but karina's mom kept the cupcakes aside. she told me that she would only open the boxes after the guest left.

so when we left, cousins from ipoh were still there. they were expecting to try my cupcakes before they go back. some of them already asking me of how much am i selling those cupcakes. karina's mom (my auntie) advised me to sell them with a resonable and appropriate prices.

i am still in the mid of thinking of how, when, should i or shouldn't i start to do this cupcake business ;) i even still can't figure out of how much should i sell them, since people already asked. what say you?

our trademark

2007-04-02T11:26:00.003+08:00

we baked quite a number of cupcakes over the weekend. i pipe-out the same pattern that i did last time. i love it so much that it will be my favourite i guess. its like some kind of lace pattern. puteri comment that its also gonna be like our trademark cupcakes already. well, what do you think.

the pink one, for a staff' sister's engagement on saturday.

while the green one for my young auntie's wedding on saturday too (S&R was short for shahrizat & rahmat).

KL flickr cupcakes

2007-03-24T19:02:00.001+08:00

we baked 50 pieces of these last night for my sister whose having a kl flickr meet today. her friend from penang dropped-by to pick this up. i juz hope that they like it.

kuE's note: she wanted something simple with flickr colours. so thats only what i could think of ;)

kuE's update on 26/03/07: more great pics of the cupcakes can be found here, here, here, here and here.

i need my scale!!!

2007-03-10T23:46:00.001+08:00

our punjabi neighbour malvin came and borrowed my scale a few weeks ago. they have not return it to-date like what i expected. argghhh... at first of course i didn't realize about it. eventually my sister called me few days ago, asking me to bake some cupcakes for her next week. then only i remember that my scale is not with me! gosh... looks like i just have to buy a new one. its my style that i do not like to ask things that people borrowed from me. they should have known it themselves of when they should return the stuff they borrowed right :(

kuE's picks

2007-02-20T22:53:00.000+08:00

with effective today, we will post this kind of posting where we will blog about the best blogs that we found while blogging i.e. blog-hopping.

the best of this week's blogs by the bloggers who blog them. highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by 'kuE's picks' participants. want in kuE's picks #2? submit a link by using this form. if we like them (the blogs you picked) too, then we will definitely post about them and mentioned that you are the one who recommended those to us.

this week’s picks—

the journal of a girl who loves to cook
“this has been one of my favourites for quite some time. now only i decided to place a link here. more over, she's an 'ipoh mali' you...”

happy cakes blog by joanna johan
“i stumbled into her blog while blog-hopping recently and found that her cupcakes were awesome! check them out too will ya? i have just send two invites for her to join two cupcake groups on flickr. i really hope that she accepted the invites and post her cupcake pics soon.”

daisy cakes
“she was trolling the internet when she came across "52cupcakes". since then she has started to get into baking. i love her cupcakes pics, along with recipes too!”

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2007-02-20T22:51:00.001+08:00

blink... blink...

2007-02-18T19:10:00.002+08:00

its CNY! as you all may already knew by now, we baked butter cupcakes to be given-away. since a friend married today too, so we prepared two boxes of those. the best thing was that the cuppies finished within a blink. even my friend didn't have the chance to eat them. "its alright dear, i will bake more specially for you when i have the free time. then you could enjoy the cuppies all by yourself."

kuE's note: i guess you must have been realized that i love to do the border pattern (what is it called huh?!!) on my cupcakes so much... it makes them cute! like the one in the pic, i just add three tiny sugar hearts.

xin nian kuai le

2007-02-17T23:36:00.001+08:00

"happy new year to you"

we prepared five boxes of cupcakes today specially for our chinese creditors and friends as a gift instead of hampers. i got two of my staff to deliver three of them. while i will give the rest myself tomorrow. i dunno how's the customer's reaction. i just hope that they like our cupcakes. i will see what my staff got to say about it ;)

as you could see, i wrote in chinese characters this time with the help of megat. so if i was wrong, do not blame me! rotfl... anyhow megat did correct me on the way i wrote it (chinese characters). it seems there's a right way of stroking which is which first. then i told him that for me, as long as it looks like it, takpe... ;)

cute pink cuppies for litttle yasmin

2007-02-04T12:29:00.001+08:00

no need to say nothing no more. pics said it all. i am bringing these cuppies for my cousin little yasmin whose celebrating her 4th birthday this evening in ipoh ;)

butter cream icing vs buttercream frosting

2007-02-03T22:55:00.001+08:00

today we baked cupcakes again (and again)! lol... well actually we wanted to bake some cuppies for my cousin yasmin whose celebrating her 4th birthday tomorrow. hmm... i guess i will post yasmin's cupcakes pics tomorrow also yea... and as usual, we used some of the extra cupcakes as trial for us to decorate them. eventually the pattern that i did this time was exactly the same one like our shortbread biscuits except that this time it was a bit tiny ;)

kuE's note: for me, i prefer buttercream frosting instead, since i first tried it a few weeks ago. the texture was of course more soft and easy to pipe-out. you could see the difference here and here for butter cream icing. how about you—what's your choice?

car chocolate cupcakes for daniel

2007-01-26T23:38:00.001+08:00

my passion for cupcakes are soooo deep that both puteri and i decided to bake cupcakes for my nephew daniel's (puteri's cousin) birthday party tomorrow. yes, we'll be there!

as usual, we baked butter cupcakes last night. while for the cream, this time i did buttercream frosting. its all thanks to diana's desserts for the wonderful recipe that i've been searching for quite some time. the recipe was just rather same like what i did for butter cream. but for frosting, i just have to add milk and vanilla essence. since we were doing cupcakes for my nephew, i had to ensure that the design were suitable for boys ;)

we found chocolate cars (kandos product) at a local supermarket, thus the design were as such, very simple—

for the extra cupcakes, i did this just to brushen-up my piping skills—

illa's 32nd birthday cupcakes

2007-01-18T09:19:00.001+08:00

kuE's note: i do not have to say much here—pics said a thousand words. well actually my youngest sister illa (whose also puteri's wan chik) likes pink, but i simply made purple butter cream juz to make some difference ;)

my first big (chocolate) cake

2007-01-13T22:31:00.001+08:00

Last night, I baked chocolate cake all by myself. I got the recipe from Wan Chik, through sms. It was quite easy. I brought three slices for Auntie Da when I visited her just now. She's back here at her mom's (my grand-auntie) place in Bukit Chandan. I hope that Auntie Da likes the cake.

Note: Pics taken and uploaded by my mama, edited with fd's Flickr Toys.

practise makes perfect

2007-01-06T12:39:00.001+08:00

practise is essential to any professionals. but how much you do depends on a number of factors...

EVERY bakers that practise is vital to improving and maintaining the standard of baking. that's what am gonna do ever since now especially cake decorating ;) hmm... whatever it is, i'll try my very best to manage my time wisely.

new year cupcakes

2006-12-31T23:43:00.002+08:00

its been quite some time since the last time we do baking. now... we baked these to welcome the New Year. i hope you all have a wonderful one!! i know i am going to :) look forward to making 2007 GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

banana walnut muffins

2006-11-28T23:58:00.001+08:00

our last post was like almost 12 days ago. that means that was also the last time we baked together. no wonder we were like missed doing it so much ;)

while blog-hopping, i read about a blogger who baked banana walnut muffins from some bananas left in her kitchen. i thought that it sounded good. so i googled for the recipe and found one from RecipeLand.com. this time i let puteri did everything, while i just sat there and guide her. puteri seldom like to eat fruit. but she loves this one so much. i like it too. the texture was kinda a bit moist... hmm... love it!

more cupcakes!

2006-11-16T23:45:00.001+08:00

hmm... looks like puteri has up-dated earlier than me ;)

i was invited to the teacher's club party for 2006 of puteri's school today. so eventually puteri helped me to bake butter cupcakes with butter icing last night. since i am still not good in icing decorating, i just did a simple one i.e. spread the butter icing on the cupcakes; then i just sprinkled some sugar rice on top. i brought those to school as a gift for the teachers. we are so glad that they (teachers) love our cupcakes so much, that they brought some home :D

as soon as we completed baking the cupcakes, puteri started to bake muffins with me as her guidance. didn't i tell you that puteri has started to love baking too?

royal chocolate muffin mix

2006-11-16T21:42:00.001+08:00

Last night I helped my mother to bake some cupcakes. Then we made Royal Chocolate Muffin. It was actually from a 500gm packet of muffin mix that we bought from a shop selling almost all the baking needs in Kota Damansara. We just need to add water, melted butter, eggs and chocolate (you can also substitute the chocolate chip with other stuff like bananas, mixed fruits, strawberries and many more). Here we used white chocolate chips. My titik (its mandarin for lil' brother) and I love the muffin so much. It was kind of moist. Nice.

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everywhere cupcakes

2006-11-14T23:08:00.001+08:00

yes! its like a trend these days, that cupcakes are the 'in' thingy no matter where ever you are in the world. we didn't want to be left out too. so we baked some cuppies for puteri's class party today. at first we thought of writing an invidual names of the classmates, with butter icing on each cupcakes. unfortunately dunno what when wrong as we were not able to make it. so we just end up with a very simple one though ;)

actually i've been longing to try to decorate the cuppies as good as these—

by kylie lambert

by kylie lambert (too!)

by SG CupcakeMomma

by SarahDayCupcake

by dave_apple

by CakesbyShara

and many many more... fyi all those pics featured here were all taken from the group World of MUFFINS & CUPCAKES that i joined in flickr. they were all my inspirations. well... i guess maybe someday... yes, someday... ;)

from kuale with love

2006-11-13T18:46:00.001+08:00

we baked chocolate chip cookies for our special friends in kl when we went there during the weekend. of course we baked them (the cookies) here in kuale and brought them with us to kl. now you know of why we didn't update this post earlier last week. it was a surprise for them. so it won't be a surprise if we posted this before we went to kl right?

to all of you my dear friends (you know who you are),
we hope that you like the cookies as much as we love baking them, from the deep of our truly heart. hugs!