Happy Birthday My Smiling Boss!

Today is my lovely boss' birthday. I have been working with him since 2004. Last year I baked him a triple chocolate cake, this year I want to make something different.

So here it is....basic cake is lapis surabaya fully covered with plastic icing/fondant and decorated by edible images and fondant. Thank you to Ike who has helped me with the edible design and printing.

Again, happy birthday my smiling boss, best wishes for your continuing success!

Lapis Surabaya again (Surabaya Layer Cake)

Lapis Surabaya in small version, sold by Rp 75,000 each pack.

Simple Chocolate Cake

This order came from my next door neighbor whose son is best friend of Ruth and Jonathan. When Fikar' auntie said that they just wanted to order a very simple chocolate cake for Fikar, I suddenly just couldn't think of anything. Well...how simple? when it comes for Fikar, I can't say it's just a chocolate butter cake or sponge cake, I must do something with it to make it nicer for him even though the budget is very low.

So, this idea just crossed to my mind, a chocolate sponge cake with butter cream filling, do not forget to always add simple syrup to make it moist. Covered the cake with butter cream, topped with shreded chocolate and red cherries. I hope Fikar loves it.

Chocolate-Filled Cupcakes

I am glad when I found this recipe from here, thanks a lot Martha! As I have so many egg whites in refrige, I found this recipe is very useful.


Wednesday night after work, I baked 2 recipes and I brought them to our church picnic on the next day at Mekarsari. People loved the cup cakes they were surprised knowing that the cupcakes only made of egg whites and no egg yolk at all.


So for you who have many egg whites left over, this recipe can be another good alternative.

Ingredients :

Makes 1 dozen

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar (I only used 1 cup)
6 large egg whites (equal to
3/4 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 vanilla beans, halved lengthwise, seeds scraped and reserved, beans discarded (I didn't use it as I don't have it at home)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, cut into 12 2-inch chunks
1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar, for dusting


Directions :


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners; set aside. Put butter and granulated sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg whites, milk, vanilla extract, and vanilla seeds; mix until combined, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Add flour, baking powder, and salt; mix until just combined.


Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each cup about 3/4 full. Insert a piece of chocolate into center of each, pressing about halfway into batter to cover. Bake until pale golden brown, about 24 minutes. Transfer tin to a wire rack; let cool slightly. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving. Cupcakes can be stored in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.

1st Birthday Cup Cake for Isabelle

Here are 1st birthday cup cakes for Isabelle, Ingkan's daughter. I met Ingkan thru sehat mailing list, We Are Mommies mailing list and multiply.

The favors of the cup cakes are vanilla with chocolate chips filling, vanilla with cheese filling, plain strawberry, and strawberry with strawberry paletta filling. Decoration using Isabelle edible image, butter cream and flowers that made from fondant.

Again, happy 1st birthday Isabelle!

Colorful Flowery Cup Cakes

Colorful flowery cup cakes I made for my husband's colleague...an immediate order and I couldn't say anything except YES hahhahhahaha....

To refresh : Brownie & Steamed Brownie

Just to refresh your memory that my kitchen was started by steamed brownie and I do still receiving steamed brownie and brownie orders these day even not as many as 2 year ago.

For Brownie there are 2 choices of flavor :

Chocolate chips & nuts for Rp 32,500 each

Chocolate chips and raisin for Rp 32,500 each

And for steamed brownie, there are 4 choices of flavor

Chocolate black forest for Rp 35,000 each

Pandan & cheese for Rp 35,000 each

Black sticky rice for Rp 35,000 each

Chocolate & cheese Rp 35,000 each (no pic yet)

Nastami's bdck touched up version

Nastami's mother, Heni, told me that she wanted her son birthday cake to be more colorful. Is it possible to do it before the birthday party? Well, a neighbour who lives a cross the road can be long lasting customer so I said...YES, ABSOLUTELY!




Then we had a little discussion about what actually she wanted, and I did what she wanted and she was very pleased after the touched up. Of course this service is free of charge. I did this as part of my service to make my customer happy.






Again, Happy 3rd Birthday Nastami!

Nastami's Birthday cakes

Nastami, a little boy who lives a cross the road celebrates his 3rd birthday today. His mother asked me to make 2 birthday cakes for him.










1st little birthday cake is for blowing the candle at home. I made this little birthday cake from 22cm round vanilla sponge cake with vanilla butter cream and strawberry paletta filling.

2nd birthday cake is for celebrating Nastami's birthday at school. His mother requested for 3D lighting Mc Queen cake with 30cm square base cake. Wow!....I have never made a 3D cake before, but I decided to say yes to her I take it as a challenge. So here it is...a 3D Lighting Mc Queen for Nastami. Not perfect yet, still needs improvement but as I made it for the very first time I think it's okay hehehehehehe.....

The Lighting Mc Queen made of chocolate butter cake and basic cake is 30cm square chocolate sponge cake with chocolate butter cream and blueberry paletta.

Mini Fruit Pie

This mini fruit pie is one of my favorite......a favorite sweet snack for order too in my kitchen :-)

Assorted Cup Cakes for Sofie NCC

I received calls and sms from Sofie, a friend from NCC mailing list. Sofie lives not too far from my house in Cibubur area but unfortunately we've never met each other yet. Sofie ordered 2 dozens of cup cakes for her sister and best friend's birthday.

Sofie mentioned that her sister doesn't liket girly things, she is more a tomboy so the cup cakes should not be flowery or other girly theme. Well, that's a big hard for me as I am so the apposite, I love girly stuff! Therefore last night my made my husband to accompany me in decorating cup cakes for Sofie' sister to give me some idea in color and decorating. Well...worked well enough and I hope Sofie' sister will like them.

It's not too difficult to decorate the other dozen for Sofie's friend as the theme is girly :-)

Juan & Kelly Birthday Cake

One day, after I posted barbie cake I made for Ruth, some one from New Zealand emailed me saying that she wanted me to make the same barbie cake for her niece in Jakarta. Later on, Nina ordered 2 birthday cakes for Juan and Kelly, her nephew and niece whose birthday is today, April 14th.





Juan's birthday cake












24cm square of chocolate devil cake decorated whipped cream and chocolate ganache. Theme : Juan & Naruto.

It's pretty tricky using whipped cream for decoration. I even forgot to cover the edible image with white chocolate to make it able to store in the refrigerator. So after finishing the decoration for Juan's birthday cake, I keep Juan's cake in my kids' bedroom which is airconditioned to keep the whipped cream stable and not melted because of the high humidity.

Kelly's birthday cake

A barbie cake with color theme pink and white. I couldn't make exactly the same barbie cake as I made for Ruth. I didn't know why...I just couldn't....I decided to change some designs and did a different hair do also for the barbie. I hope Nina won't mind with it.

My biggest mistake was I didn't realized that the cake plate I bought was too small to put the barbie cake together with Kelly's cup cakes. So on delivery I put a note that actually the cup cakes go together with the barbie cake on display.

Nina, thank you very much for your believe in me...I hope those birthday cakes will brighten Juan & Kelly's day.

G & R Love Cup Cakes

There was G who contacted me thru email at first, asking about my cup cakes. After a few discussion via email, then she ordered 2 dozens of love cup cakes to celebrate her 1st dating anniversary with her boyfriend, R, on last Sunday.





1 dozen of chocolate cup cakes, decorated with butter cream and chocolate topping with G & R initial.








And another one dozen of vanilla cup cakes with a simple and neat decoration using plastic icing and red cheries :-)

The vanilla cup cakes came with 3 soft colors, pink, soft yellow and white....very sweet combination :-)

For me, G is a very romantic person....and that really touches my heart....therefore I made these cup cakes with all my heart also *wink*

I wish the best for G & R, hope you both will be happy ever after.

Here is a text message I received from G on Sunday afternoon (sorry part of the text message is in bahasa) :

"Hi mbak, cup cakes nya udah aku terima, taste good and looking cute, thanks ya. Til next time"

You are the most welcome, G....my best regard to R :-)