Abel's 4th birthday cup cakes - princess pink and purple

I know Yesi, Abel's mom from Multiply and it was nice to be able to help her to do Abel's 4th birthday cup cakes.

I made chocolate and lemon cup cakes for Abel. Decoration using edible image and butter cream and color theme was pink and purple...very girly hehehehehe...

Glad that Yesi was satisfied with the cup cakes. She was concerned with dry cupcakes, but when she tasted my cup cakes and Jonathan's birthday cake, she was happy with them.

Here is the text message she sent me regarding the Abel's 4th Birthday cup cakes (sorry...again they're in bahasa - actually the message would like to say thank you and she very satisfied with a very moist and delicious cup cakes I have made).

"Jeng, cupcake nya OK. Anak2ku dah lags buka hehehehe..rbtan hiasan bunga yang ungu...kuenya moist gak kering, manisnya pas buat anakku. Tks ya sori kalo aku cerewet hehehehe.."

Thank you Yesi for your order....and glad that you were very satisfied...waiting for your next order then :-)

Lighting Mc Queen vs Ultraman for Jonathan's 3rd Birthday

I still feel very sorry for Jonathan as I couldn't finish all projects I planned before for his birthday. Besides made him a birthday cake with ultraman & lighting mc queen theme, I was also thinking of baking some cookies for him. But I just didn't have that much energy to do it. So I only baked him a birthday cake.

I am soo glad that he loved his birthday cake very much. His eyes were blinkin' when he saw his birthday cake. He said "thank you Mama...thank you Mama.." hundred times and that was just melted my heart.

Last minute before we brought the cake to Pulau Dua restaurant to celebrate his 3rd birthday, I put some more green grass to give more color on his birthday cake and Jo even liked it more. The cake was chocolate rich cake. Every one just loved the moist and very chocolaty cake I made...Jonathan even had 2 slices before he ate his birthday lunch and at home I couldn't counted anymore how many slices he had.

Again, happy 3rd birthday my lovely son...God bless you and Mama will always love you with all my heart....

Strawberry Pie

This was actually the wrong order I made for my best friend. She ordered for mini strawberry pies but I made her the big one hehehehehe....

Glad that she didn't sue me hahahahaha.....she just reminded me for June 28th this can'be wrong anymore. Additional order for 150 pcs of mini strawberry pies :-)

Barney & friends for Faya

Faya's birthday is only one day different from Jonathan. Last week, Yudith, Faya's mom, emailed me and asking whether I would be able to make a 3rd birthday cake for Faya. Faya loves chocolate cake and Barney, so I made her a rich chocolate cake with Barney & friends.

Happy 3rd birthday dear Faya!!

Here are text messages I received from Faya's mom on the next day..they were sent in bahasa but basically she wanted to say thank you for the delicious cake and how Faya, the birthday girl really loved the cake and the barney.

"Faya suka bngt :-) pas smp rmh, aq mskin kulkas dl, eh sm fy, kulkas dibuka2 trs, mo liat barney ktnya. pas ud dikluarin, nempel2 trs ke kue, jarinyanowel2 & dimskin ke mulut. ampuh deh...pdhl acaranya blm mulai, tp kuenya ud ditowel2 haha..mlmnya nyari2 barney cs, y ud akhrnya stlh dicuci, barney cs diajakin tiup lilin lg diatas kue yg ud sisa sepotong, trs malem diajakin bobo abreng :-) tmn2 Faya jg suka, mamaku, papa fy, smua pd blg kuenya enak skali kata mrk :-p tx ya Dew, kuenya OK bgt :-) "

What a great relieve when customer satisfied with what we've done. Thank you Yudith!

Fruit Pie for Mom's birthday

When last week my colleague saw the fruit pie I made for Pakdhe Joni's birthday, she was suddenly in love and asked to make one for her mom birthday. Red color domination is a must as she likes red hehehehe...I also cutting more sugar for this pie but still taste good

I made the crust using my new pie pan, it's very handy and help me to finish my job quicker...no need to trim the edges anymore :-)

Naura 2nd Birthday

Ordered by Rika, Naura's Mom. Cup cakes and birthday cake for Naura 2nd Birthday with pink princess theme.

I was a bit lost when decorating the cup cakes but finally I could finish them in 4 hours. It was a bit tiring as I didn't have enough sleep for 3 nights. I did the packing in the morning with a rush.

This time I tried a new recipe of chocolate devil cup cakes from Martha Stewart with a little modification to adjust the taste to be more Asian and turned out just perfect.

The birthday cake was 2 layers of moist chocolate sponge cake with chocolate ganache and blueberry filling. The strong vanilla flavor from simple syrup just blended very well with the cake and filling, turned out absolutely wonderful taste!

Naura's princess birthday cake

Naura 2nd birthday edilble

Naura's birthday cake from the top

Fruit Pie for Pakdhe Joni

More on fruit pies!! I think fruit pie has becoming primadona in my kitchen. This is another fruit pie order for birthday. I changed the design a little bit. Don't like what I did with the wording though...need more practice!

Well, I think when people start to get tired of birthday cake and would like to find another alternative of healthier stuff for birthday, fruit pie can be a good alternative don't you think? As I have just received another fruit pie order for a birthday next week :-)

Fruit Pie with Cream Cheese Filling

Another fruit pie but this time I used cream cheese for filling as requested. This time I want to share the recipe so that you might can try and give me your opinion about it.

For the crust, so far I would say this is the best sweet crust I have ever made!

Pie crust :

300 gr + 2 tbs all purpose flour

175 gr butter or butter + margarine/shortening 50:50 (chilled it before using)

1 egg, lightly beaten

30 gr granulated sugar

1/4 tsp salt

Directions :

1. Mix in large bowl flour, sugar and salt using whisk or finger

2. Cut in butter using fork, pastry cutter or knive, add in egg mix until dough holds together.

3. Wrap the pie crust in plastic wrap then place in refrigerator for about 30 minutes - 1 hour

4. Roll the ball of pie crust out until it is 3 or 4mm thick and you have about 24 - 25cm in diameter.

5. Put the circle in a 22-23cm (9 inch) pie plate, trimming any extra dough from the edges with a sharp knife. Return it to the refrigerator for at least 20 mins to chill the butter and rest the gluten.

6. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Line unbaked crust with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Fill tart pan with pie weights, rice or beans, making sure the weights are to the top of the pan and evenly distributed over the entire surface. Bake crust for 20 to 25 minutes until crust is dry and lightly golden brown. Remove weights and cool crust on wire rack before filling.

Cream Cheese Filling:

330 gr cream cheese

180 gr butter

180 gr castor sugar

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Mix all together until soft and creamy

To assemble pie :

Spread a melted chocolate over the bottom and sides of crust to prevent the crust from getting soggy. Let the chocolate dry between 20 - 30 minutes. Spread the cream cheese filling and decorate the pie with any kind of fruits you desire and coat the fruit using glaze to make the fruits look shiny.

More for Fruit Pie

After posting the mini fruit pie & mini savory pie, I received a text message on Friday evening from Angky asking if I could make another fruit pie to be sent to Pekayon, Pasar Rebo on Sunday. It's a bigger size of fruit pie, she requested the diameter should be more than 18cm. As I have never done it before I asked her to give me some time to think and to calculate the cost.

Saturday morning I confirmed Angky that I could make the fruit pie for her. After searching in the internet about step by step making a great crust then I gave my first try to do the bigger crust using the crust recipe I used for mini fruit pie. First try didn't go well...so I change the method of doing it and it worked well for the second try, the result turned pretty good even though I didn't do very well in trimming the edges, still need more practise...so give me some more orders on pie then I will be very happy to practise more hehehehe...

Mini Fruit Pie & Mini Savory Pie

Mini savory pies

Mini fruit pies

Decorated Roll Tart

A roll tart decorated with fondant/plastic icing. As this is for one month cake baby boy occasion then the theme is blue. Mimi Shendy, this roll tart is for you... :-)

Purple & Yellow for Meene

Melisa is a good friend of mine I knew from cyber world. I met Melisa thru Balita Anda Mailing List, then we happened to have lunch together and since then become best friends.

In chinese tradition they have one month baby celebration and Melisa asked me to make some cup cakes and mini cake for her daughter's one month baby celebration. The color theme are purple and yellow but I added some whites and greens to make them nicer and more colorful.

Thanks Mel for the order, it was lots of fun doing them. My love to Max and Meene!

From the queen to Arya

The Queen of cup cakes with busy with big order from XL, that's why the queen asked me to bake her nephew's birthday cup cakes.

Well, I was a bit nervous doing this order as this is the order from the queen of cup cakes, what if it doesn't turn out nice and delicious as the queen usually does? Well,...just do my best then.

Glad that Arya and family loved the cup cakes....the queen also gave me an appreciation for them....I feel soo great!

Birthday cake for Michael

Second order was a birthday cake for Michale, Lynda's nephew. I know Lynda Maitimu William from Multiply. Lynda emailed from Holland saying that she was coming back to visit her family in Jakarta and would like to order birthday cake for her nephew, Michael.

Chocolate devil cake covered with plastic icing/fondant and Michael's edible image. I am glad knowing Lynda and her family satisfied with cake....and planning to order some more :-)

Thank you Lynda and have a safe trip back to Holland :-)

P.S. Apologize for the pic as only taken by my cell phone camera.

Birthday cup cakes for Zia

One day before my birthday there were 2 orders that made me only sleep for an hour.

First order from Zia for her birthday. Chocolate cupcakes with edible image. I was too tired for taking the picture so I took the picture in the office using my cell phone camera - not good enough.

Strawberry Yoghurt Pudding

Yesterday I went to Cisarua for meeting side inspection and happened to stop by at Cimori. Cimori is a place where we can buy fresh milk and other dairy products. I bought some yoghurt, milk and fresh strawberries. After work, I decided to make this simple strawberry yoghurt pudding for my snack time at work today :-)

Ingredients :

1 pack agar-agar (red colored)
120 gr sugar
650 ml water
200 ml strawberry yoghurt
200 gr fresh strawberries, chopped


Directions :

Boiled water, sugar and agar-agar, add yoghurt, stir quick using whisker, add chopped strawberries and pour into mould, set aside. When it is cooled, store in the refrigerator.

Lemon Cup Cakes

Sunday afternoon together with other christian colleagues we visited an orphanage in Jati Makmur area, not too far from where I live. I baked them 110 lemon cup cakes. The recipe I used was egg whites cup cakes from Martha Steward that I have posted before. This time, the cup cakes turned out even much better then the first trial. It is more moist and the lemon flavour was really rich. Jonathan and I really love the lemon butter cream I made, I think I am gonna make some more for us this week, for weekend snack :-)

Cup Cake - cow's theme

There was Yukki, called me last week asking me whether I would be able to make her a 3D cow cake. Well...as I have never been done that, I told her the truth...and after I think of it I told her that I still don't have enough guts to make a 3D cow cake. What I could do maybe just making a birthday cake with little cows from fondant for the decoration or something else like cow color theme, etc. No more phone calls from Yukki until last Friday afternoon Yukki called me to confirm her order that was a dozen of cup cakes with little cow made from fondant and picture edible.

I told Yukki to combine the edible picture and little fondat cow would be a bit too much, the little cow would cover the picture edible...and yes, when I tried to make little cows from fondant and put them on the top of cup cakep which already covered with the edible image, seems like those cows sitting on some boday's face and I thought it's not proper...so I decided to take out the fondant cows. Besides the edible itself already has cow's picture next to the person picture.

I hope Yukki won't mind with that...I received a thank you sms from Yukki yesterday evening for the cup cakes and that relieves me :-)

Mc Queen for Mumtaz

When Luki, Mumtaz's mom called me to order this cake the time frame is a bit too tight but I kept said yes to her as I thought it could be a good challenge.

I don't know what was going on with me....I thought I did not do my best when making Mc Queen's birthday cake for Mumtaz. Am I getting a baking blue? I don't know...maybe I wasn't too well....My alergic coughing has been pretty annoying at night. Oh no.....that's too many excuse which actually still not acceptable!

The Mc queen was made of lapis surbaya (surabaya layer cake). As Luki didn't want any base cake, I put some more cup cakes for Mumtaz alphabetical name and one more cup cake for putting the candle. The cake plate was too tight to put all things together and that was just very annoying me, but I was ran out of time so I just let them be.

So when Luki came to pick up the cake on Saturday morning, I gave her some discount for her son's birthday cake. I am sorry Luki....I think I should have done better than this....thank you for your understanding and hope Mumtaz' birthday went well...he is such a cute littel boy!

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.