Fancy Cookies for Church Bazaar

And here are the fancy cookies I made. My kids were happy decorating the cookies. I even made a special dough which Ruth dan Jonathan could do the cutting dow to the shapes they want then baked them and finally decorated them by themselves. This activity could make then calmed down and not running around for about almost 2 hours and that was marvealous! hahahahaha...

Cup cakes for church bazaar

Last Sunday, our church held a bazaar for raising money for Go Green program and children health care. I donated some cup cakes and fancy cookies to be sold in the bazaar.

So happy knowing that all cupcakes and fancy cookies I made sold out very fast.

Here are cupcakes I made. They were moist chocolate cupcakes decorated using simple swirl in pink, blue and yellow color with chocolate topper then packed individually.

Barbie Cake for Morie's 4th Birthday

I was surprised when Morie's mom, Elly, called me on last saturday asking about Barbie cake. She said she knew me from google search...wow!

Monday night she reconfirmed her order for a pink barbie cake for Morie's 4th birthday. The basic cake using moist chocolate butter cake and full plastic icing/fondant decor.






Thank you Ibu Elly for your order I hope Morie will be happy with her barbie birthday cake.

Cream Cheese Brownie

I have favorite cooking site that is http://www.joyofbaking.com/ This site has always been very inspirational for me. Thank you very much Stephanie Jaworski!

Last night I tried her cream cheese brownie. Yum.....it turned out perfect! just delicious...when I tried this brownie, I remember my friend, Cherryl who always said : "Ohh my dear heaven" when trying something really good. So last night I said..."Ohh my dear heaven!"

I just copy paste the recipe directly from Stephanie' site as I didn't make much adjustment on it. I hope you don't mind Stephanie :-)

Sorry the pic is not as good as what Stephanie did for her site hehehehe...

Ingredients :

Brownie Layer:

1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, cut into pieces (I used Orchid butter)
4 ounces (114 grams) unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped (I used Theis)
1 1/4 cups (250 grams) granulated white sugar (I used only 200gr)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs (I used 3 medium eggs)
1/2 cup (70 grams) all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt

Cream Cheese Layer:

8 ounces (227 grams) cream cheese, at room temperature (I used Anchor)
1/3 cup (65 grams) granulated white sugar (I used only 50gr)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 large egg (I used 2 small eggs)


Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C) and place the rack in the center of the oven. Have ready a 9 x 9 inch (23 x 23 cm) square baking pan that has been lined with aluminum foil across the bottom and up two opposite sides of the pan. Set aside.

In a stainless steel (heatproof) bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water, melt the butter and chocolate. Remove from heat and stir in the sugar and vanilla extract. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well (with a wooden spoon) after each addition. Stir in the flour and salt and beat, with a wooden spoon, until the batter is smooth and glossy and comes away from the sides of the pan (about one minute). Remove 1/2 cup of the brownie batter and set aside. Place the remainder of the brownie batter evenly into the prepared pan.

Then in the bowl of your food processor (or with a hand mixer), process the cream cheese until smooth. Add the sugar, vanilla, and egg and process until creamy and smooth. Spread the cream cheese filling over the brownie layer. Spoon small dollops of the reserved brownie batter evenly on top of the cream cheese filling. Then with a table knife or wooden skewer, swirl the two batters without mixing them.

Bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes or until the brownies start to pull away from the sides of the pan and the edges of the brownies are just beginning to brown. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Refrigerate the brownies until they are firm enough to cut into squares (at least two hours). Once chilled, remove the brownies from the pan by lifting with the ends of the foil and transfer to a cutting board. With a sharp knife, cut into 16 squares. It is a good idea to have a damp cloth nearby to wipe your knife between cuts. These brownies can be stored in the refrigerator for several days.

Makes about 16 - 2 inch squares.

Fancy Cookies

This is my first time to try making fancy cookies. With good support from my cyber friend, Cindy that I met thru NCC mailing list finally I could get myself to try on this.

My kids, Ruth and Jonathan helped me making these cookies. They even loved the whole process making the dough thru cutting the dough into shapes. On thing that they missed was decorating the cookies as they both were tired and decided to go for napping so I decorated these cookies by myself.

I am pretty happy with the result and even think to make some more for kids church bazaar next Sunday.

Lighting Mc Queen for Famous

There is Henny, a nice aunty who would like to give a neat surprise for her nephew's birthday, Famous. Famous loves Lighting Mc Queen so much, that's why his aunty ordered a 3D Lighting Mc Queen for Famous birthday.

Basic cake using chocolate butter cake and crafted, for details I used edible image - thanks to Vicka & Yudhi for providing the edible image.

Henny, thank you for the order....Happy 3rd Birthday Famous, God bless!

Testimony from Karina, a friend of mine whose recommended me to Henny :

Dewi,

Cakenya sudah sampai. Famous excited banget, malah mau mainin katanya ini kue mobil2an bisa dijalanin. Complete story hari Senin ya setelah acara.

Temen-temen di Sekdir udah lihat di blog joris kitchen. Semuanya pada kagum dan amaze liat kuenya, wow! So real, kayak mainannya beneran. Using edible image for the body of McQueen is a very good idea! It’s even better!

Thanks ya…

Naruto edible cake & cupcakes for Aldin

Herra, Aldin's mom called me last week to ask whether I would be available to make Naruto birthday cupcakes for today. I said yes, I still have room for that hehehe....then a few days ago Herra gave me more order that's a Naruto birthday cake for Aldin's 9th birthday.

The birthday cake requested was a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and fully covered with chocolate ganache and roasted almond. This idea came up after Herra looked at Aras' Naruto cake in my blog. Ehm..that would be very yummy...full chocolate ganache and roasted almond?....

For cupcakes, I made 2 dozens of chocolate cupcakes and one dozen of vanilla cupcakes decorated using Naruto & friends edible image and butter cream.

Happy 9th Birthday Aldin, God bless!

Fruit Taart for Putu

Last week a friend from previous company I worked for text me and ordered this fruit taart for his colleague. He was confused between fruit taart and fruit pie and he asked me to choose for him. For me, I love both, fruit taart and fruit pie so kindly hard to choose...hahaha...wish that he would order them both hahaha...finally he decided to order this fruit taart.

It's always fun when assembling the fruits to the cake or pie...this time I played with kiwi, strawberry and oranges only but they still look pretty though, don't they? A little bit different with the previous fruit taart I made before, this one I made it of 2 layers of vanilla sponge cake with filling vanilla butter cream and blueberry. And for the simple sirup, I used the mandarin syrup from the can. Turned out very tutty fruitty and yummy :-)

Surprise Black Forest for a Husband's Birthday

There was Sasa, my neighbor who wanted to make a birthday surprise for her beloved husband, Pak Imam. Sasa ordered a black forest and I was so happy to be able to help her to prepare this nice surprise.

I made four layers black forest cake and ended up very tall. But this even gave me a new idea for the decorating. As this cake is from a lovely wife to her beloved husband then I needed to support this idea. I put some pink heart candies around the cake in top of the chocolate borders and turned out cute.

Vanilla cup cakes for Laksmi Juwita

I met Laksmi from cyber world, Multiple. When I posted vanilla cupcakes from Hero Group seemed like Laksmi got tempted with the cupcakes hehehehe..therefor she PM me and ordered a dozen of vanilla cup cakes to be sent to her home in Bogor last Sunday.

I put chocolate ganache as a filling for my vanilla cupcakes and glad that Laksmi and the whole family loved them. She posted a testemony on her multiply and here is the link http://ummuauliya.multiply.com/journal/item/1011/Ditonjok...?replies_read=1 (sorry it's in Bahasa)

Thank you mbak Laksmi for your order...awating for the next as you said you wanted to try the chocolate one? hihihihihihi....no problemo :-)

Naruto edible cake for Aras

Aras is daughter for Ienk, my cyber friend. Aras is crazy about Naruto these days....during their holiday in Jakarta, Ienk who lives in Cirebon, sms me asking whether I would be available to make Aras a Naruto cake using edible..it's just for fun said Ienk.

Aras really likes nuts, the family likes chocolate and Aras' causin likes strawberry....Ienk wanted me to combine all together in one cake! hahahahahaha...finally we came out with this idea : 3 layers chocolate sponge cake with 2 kind of fillings : between layer 1 and 2, the filling is strawberry jam and between layer 2 and 3 the filling is peanut butter. I used chocolate ganache to cover all over the cake, decorated with Naruto & friends edible image and using peanut butter to draw the edible border, then cover all ganache surface with almond slices.

When this morning I delivered the cake to Taman Rasuna Apartment, where Ienk and family are staying during their holiday, I was so happy to see Aras' eyes were blinkin looking at her cake. And she even could wait to taste the cake. Aras really loves the almond and chocolate ganache and couldn't stand to pinch her finger to the cake all the time hahahahahaha....

Having more chocolate cupcakes dough, I decided to bake them for Ienk as a gift. Simple decoration using swirl and fondant tiny flowers.

Just received an sms from Ienk saying : (in bahasa)

"Dew, cakenya dah rusak hehehehe..blm difoto dah dicolak2 hihihi..lgs dipotong ama anak2 nih...coklatnya yummy bgt nih...aku sih ngembat ganache nya aja hehe"

It's great to hear that Ienk...thank you very much for yout trust and order, see you again on Tuesday at lunch time.....love you all always!

Repeated order from Mbak Tuti, Hero Group

Repeated order from mbak Tuti, Hero Group. I think she really likes my vanilla butter cake hahaha...after tasted the cupcakes I made for her birthday boss on last Tuesday, Wednesday night I received her sms saying that she wanted to order more. This time she wanted me to make her a decorated cake using basic cake vanilla butter cake with chocolate ganache filling and butter cream icing...color theme pink and purple again :-)

Wow...wow....vanilla joins with chocolate ganache....can you imagine that? very very delicious!!!...

Completing her order, she asked for 10 cupcakes more. 6 chocolate cupcakes with ganache filling and decoration theme pink and yellow with dark chocolate love topper.

And the other 4 cupcakes, vanilla with ganache filling in green color theme. Actually she wanted to have animals chocolate topper as the request just came out yesterday afternoon I told her that I gave up hahahaha....see...I am still very amateur! Finally we agreed to use colorful chocolate stars and heart toppers.

Thank you Mbak Tuti, it's good to received your repeated order...awaiting for the next :-)

Birthday cup cakes

This is the first order after my short holiday to Central Java. The order came from Tuti, Hero Group. I though that the order was cancelled as I waited until last Monday morning, checked my email at gmail and I found nothing from her. Until about 9:30am she called me and asking about my bank account to transfer the money for cupcakes order. I was surprised knowing that the order still going on...Tuti mentioned that she had emailed me the details of the order since a week ago before I left for holiday...well something wrong then...so I asked her to forward her email again to my office email address.

When I checked my office email address she forwarded me the email she sent to my gmail account. Well, it's weird though as she typed the correct email address and I didn't get the email? I went to my gmail account and went thru once again to my mailbox, still nothing....until then I realized that maybe her email went to the spam filter. And yes!...I found her email there!! ehm...weird...this email wasn't a spam but why gmail sent it to my spam folder?

Anyway....it was 4 dozens of cupcakes for Tuti's boss birthday yesterday. She requested for pink and purple theme and should be looked exactly like what I made for Fajar's brother then arranged it like what my friend's did it for her mom's birthday...it's Ike's.

10 cup cakes with different color theme though as it's for another birthday of a man. She requested for blue and white. All cupcakes were vanilla cupcakes with chocolate filling, I used easy melt for the filling.

Later on the day, I received sms from Tuti mentioned that the cupcakes were tasted great. Glad knowing it. Well, when I delivered the cupcakes and met Tuti's colleagues and arranged the surprised birthday cupcakes in their board room, they said that the cupcakes looked stunning and the vanilla smelled very good and tempting. I told them that anytime I received order for vanilla cake, I always put double recipe for the vanilla and slightly change the butter amount and that would make the difference :-)

Wanna try my vanilla cake or cupcakes? please just text me, call me or email me then :-)

Dinosaurus edible cake for Anindhita

Shopia, my colleague has a little cute girl namen Anindhita who really likes dinosaurus. Since a month ago Shopie asked me whether I would be able to make a birthday cake for Anindhita with dinosaurus theme. First, Shopie asked me if I can make a 3D dinosaurus and friends, I said yes. But last weekend when I tried to make the 3D Dinosaurus....ohhh they turned out very terrible. I am not an expert for 3D cake so I have to apologize to Shopie that I couldn't meet her expectation. Glad to know that she's okay with that and we agree to change the decoration using dinosaurus edible image.

Basic cake is chocolate rich cake with butter cream icing.

Happy 9th birthday Nindhita....God bless you dear!

This birthday cake, is also as a closing for this season. I am leaving out of town tomorrow early morning and won't be back till Sunday evening. My kitchen will be available again starting on Monday, 7th July 2008.

Have a nice holiday all!

Strawberry mini pies

My dearest best friend ordered these 150 pcs of strawberry mini pies for her high school reunion on last saturday.

Fresh and bright...tempting right? hahahaha....just text me if you want to order :-)

Purple & Pink for Fajar's brother

Last order of last weekend from Fajar.....pyuuuhhh...finally I could have a good night sleep after this hahahaha...

Actually Fajar would like to order some more cakes such chocolate devil and fruit pie but I refused her other orders as I didn't have enough hands and time to manage to do it. What I could do for her just making a plate of cup cakes for her brother engagement ceremoney.

Thanks Fajar for your order...hopefully next time I could help you better than this....wedding cup cakes or wedding cake for your brother maybe? hahahahaha.....

Cup cakes & fruit pie for Wiwit

I met Wiwit thru Multiply and sehat mailing list. Last Saturday, Wiwit and family came to Jakarta to attend the engagement ceremony. Wiwit ordered these cup cakes and mini fruit pie to bring along the ceremony, we call them "hantaran."

They suppose to be elegant, that's why I decided to chooose soft golden yellow theme for the cupcakes color and I just love them!!!

Text message I received from Wiwit last night saying that the cakes have been received safely and they were beautiful (I sent them thru Nirwana delivery)

"Jeng ma ksh, kuenya dah nyampe dg selamat & cantik! :)

You are very welcome Wiwit :-)

Purple and Yellow cup cakes for Raina 2nd birthday

These are purple and yellow cup cakes to accompany Raina's birthday cake.





Eva wanted me to write down Raina's 2nd birthday on each cup cake....as those were 4 dozens and I didn't think that I would make it so I just using edible then hahahahaha....glad that Eva didn't complain about the edible.





Thanks a bunch to my Mom who helped me making the whole butterflies & little flowers using fondant. I love you sooo much, Mama!!!

Teletubbies for Raina's 2nd birthday

A few weeks ago, Eva contacted me thru email. She wanted to order a birthday cake for her lovely niece, Raina who celebrated her 2nd birthday last saturday. The theme requested was teletubbies and Eva asked for the edible teletubbies.

Well, I have tried to do my best....and as I am just still a amateur, I couldn't make the edible teletubbies just like what Eva wanted. I told Eva the truth that what I could do was just putting the teletubbies cake toys in Raina' s birthday cake. I know that I have disaapointed Eva, therefore I gave her some discount.

This morning I received text message from Eva saying that they were happy with the delicious chocolate rich cake I made for Raina birthday cake...the delicious of the cake could forget them from the edible teletubbies hahahahaha.....thank you Eva for your order and waiting for the next one :-)

"Waduh mbak Dewi, bday cakenya wangi banget, bau lemon...(glad that I decided to put some lemon zest on the syrup and it was just perfect!) jd pd gak sabaran mau icip2 kuenya...apalagi raina, begitu liat adagambar dia ma tetubbies lgs dipegang-pegang kuenya malah edible yang di pinggir kena tgn raina jd copot deh..anyway smua pd nanyain kuenya abis enak trus butter creamnya ga bikin eneg jd pd nambah...tks ya mbak meskipun teletubbiesnya jd pake mainan..."

Fruit Taart

Order from my husband's colleague, Ibu Grace, on her birthday last Friday. A fruit taart made of 2 layer of vanilla sponge cake with vanilla vla filling and fruits topping. Yummy...and healthy.

Wanna try? please text me then...hahahaha.....

30th Medion

This is a sample birthday cake for Medion that I made last week. Chocolate rich cake with Medion's birthday logo.

Pink and Purple for Amelia

This one is ordered by Winda. This is the second order I received from her. Winda ordered mini sliced cakes a few months ago and this time she wanted to give her beautiful niece a very special birthday present. It's a dozen of pink and purple cup cakes with Amelia's edible picture on them.

Last minute before packing, I decided to pour some sprinkles to make it more colorful and I think they looked even nicer, don't you think?

Glad that Winda loved the cup cakes....even other colleagues at work who saw the cup cakes then ordered some more for themselves :-)

Thank you Winda for your order and awaiting for the next one hehehehe....