Cup Cakes for Rosi

This order comes from Rosi, my colleague who was impressed with cup cakes I made for Nadia. Firstly, Rosi asked me to decorate the cup cakes with animal themes as she wanted to share the cup cakes with her niece but then she changed her mind, she said no special theme for the cup cakes decoration, up to me.

When some one said "up to you" it can be good but it also can be worst. The worst thing was I just had no idea at all for the decoration. I have done blog walking these very recent days but stil the result was zero last night. For an hour I was just sit down on the floor did nothing, playing with the butter cream, tasted it, playing again until a mosquito bit me then I realized it's already 11 pm!!

I really wanted to make a nice swirl using Wilton 1M so the swirl will come out like a nice rose but I don't have Wilton 1M. When I looked at my stuff I found one tip that looks like something that can help me to do such thing like Wilton 1M. Well, I bought the tip in traditional market and it only cost Rp 1,000 so it doesn't work as good as the Wilton one, at least I will have a good excuse :-)

It's fun using this fake tip hehehehehe...and in 45 minutes finally I have done all decoratings. I made a set of purple roses from swirl and another set of fruity decoration for Rosi, what a fun night .

Cup cakes for Khaira 3rd Birthday

Besides ordering the birthday cake, Khaira Moms also ordered some cup cakes to go along with the birthday cake. High light for the cup cakes orders are:

1. Should not contained any butter cream - prefer decorated using royal icing (RI)

2. Written : Khaira Birthday in each cup cake

Well, really a challege for me as I am not too familiar with royal icing. But after a long discussion with Efi, my friend, finally I have enough guts to be confident that everything should be okay.

Afer done doing the cup cakes I was happy that these cup cakes turned out pretty nice even though the decorating was just simple one. Sindhi, Khaira's Mom was also happy with the cup cakes. "Very nice, Dew!" said Sindhi. Thank you Sindhi :-)

Barney Cake for Khaira 3rd Birthday

Khaira, my best friend's daughter celebrated her 3rd birthday on last Saturday, 9 September 2007. As she is a big fan of Barney and Baby Bob, her mom asked me to make a birthday cake for Khaira with Barney theme. "It should be colorful and besides Barney, Khaira loves baloons and balls."

I tried to combine all requests even though after done the decorating I am not satisfied with the result yet. I think it's not colorful enough besides that I was a bit lost in ideas. Well...oh well..I wasn't feeling well either. Well...oh well again...I am happy that Khaira, her sibbling and parents were happy with the birthday cake even though I might have to take a note to improve my decorating skill.

The birthday cake

Barney, Baby Bob, baloons, balls, ducks and rabbits in little park

Side decoration

Happy birthday sweet Khaira, may God continues to bless and shower you with His love forever!

Flower Cup Cakes

These flower cup cakes made to fulfill Nadia's order, my colleague. As Nadia told me that she didn't have any idea for the decorating theme I decided to make flower cup cakes for her as she is sooo girly and beautiful.

Roses cup cakes

Besides making cup cakes for Nadia, I also made some cup cakes for Ruth's teachers to say thank you for all patience and support for Ruth while she was making an adjustment to a new school environment. Ruth had problems in adjusting and she was absolutely handsfull during the first month at school.

Colorful corsette

Sun Flowers

Grass flowers

Cup Cakes for Balqis

These cup cakes made for Balqis, my colleague at work. As she didn't give me any theme so I told here that I would just made some decorations for each 3 cup cakes to give her an idea for the next order :-)

Some ideas of these cup cakes decorating taken from Mbak Ike, my friend at NCC mailing list. Thank you Mbak Ike as you have allowed me using your ideas.

Triple Chocolate Chilled Cheesecake

Efi Andra, my friend from cyber world introduces me to this great delicious chilled cheesecake and always encourages me to try the recipe.

Finally, yesterday I made this delicious chilled cheesecake as dessert during the dinner of our Cell group discussion last night. As I don't have the milk cooking chocolate, I substituted it with chocolate milk and it turned out just okay.

Ingredients:

Cake Base :

300 gr biskuit oreo

180 gr butter, lelehkan

TCCC :

375 gr cream cheese

250 ml whip cream, kocok hingga kental

125 ml susu cair full cream

125 gr gula halus (original recipe pake gula kastor)

60 gr white cooking chocolate, lelehkan

60 gr milk susu kental manis (original 60 gr milk cooking chocolate yang dilelehkan)

60 gr dark cooking chocolate

1 1/2 sdm gelatin

60 ml air

Directions:

Cake Base :

Buang krim tengah oreo, hancurkan kemudian campur rata dengan 180 gr butter leleh. Lalu letakkan pada dasar loyang springform (bongpas), tekan-tekan atau padatkan dengan pantat sendok, diamkan di lemari es selama kurang lebih 1 jam.

TCCC :

1. Siapkan loyang spring form yang telah dipasangkan alas cake (bisa juga menggunakan tabung2 dari mika.

2. Tim gelatin dan air hingga larut, sisihkan.

3. Kocok cream cheese hingga lembut, masukkan susu dan gula halus, kocok hingga larut. Masukkan gelatin, aduk rata.

4. Bagi adonan menjadi 3 bagian sama banyak, campur masing2 bagian dengan jenis coklat yang telah dicairkan.

5. Bagi whip cream kocok menjadi 3 bagian, campurkan ke dalam 3 bagian adonan dan aduk rata.

6. Tuangkan adonan wcc pada loyang, masukkan ke freezer, hingga bagian atasnya mulai mengeras, tuangi adonan mcc, simpan dalam freezer, setelah mengeras, tuangin adonan dcc. Tutup loyang dengan plastic wrap. Hidangkan dalam keadaan dingin.

Cup cakes for welcoming a baby boy!

Instead of making a welcome cake for a baby boy, I decided to make cup cakes for this little cute baby boy. I just love the idea and I thought it's a cute thing to do.

When I wanted to make a set of cake to give to them, I was a bit lost..I didn't know what to put on the cake. But finally I made up my mind and the 6 cup cakes to give to the Subra's were pretty nice.

Cup cakes for a best friend

I made these cup cakes for Marcella, Ruth's new friend at school. Ruth said Marcella has been such a very dearly friend for her and as Marcella often shares things with her, Ruth wanted to do the same to say thank you.

Ruth told me the cupcakes should be decorated in pink theme...as I was just so happy to do it. Thank you Marcella for your beatiful friendship so far....May God continue to bless and shower you with His love :-)

Kezia Birthday Cake & Cup Cakes

Kezia, is the name of a beatiful little girl from our next door. Her father is a friend of mine since we were both in Junior High School. On 28th July Kezia celebrated her 2nd birthday and as she is a big fan of Dora, her mother asked me to make a Dora theme for her birthday cake.

It was a pleasure for me to do the birthday cake and cup cakes for Kezia Birthday party. Too bad we couldn't join the nice party as we already had another appointment on the same day. In the evening I received sms from Ari, Kezia's father. The whole family including his parent's in law were really happy with the birthday cake and cute cup cakes. Kezia was so thrilled with the birthday cake, many thanks!.

It felt so good and thankful when my customer satisfied with what I have done. Even though I didn't have sleep at all when I did this order, but the thank you note worth more than anything.

Chocolate Cup Cakes

I made this cup cakes as a trial for my new muffin baking sheets that I bought from Edi Store in Mayestik Market. I love the new muffin sheets, my cup cakes turned out great!

For the recipe I just modified the butter cake recipe, substituted some flour with cocoa and it turned out just perfect.

For the topping, I used melted dark cooking chocolate with some butter then put a strawberry chocolate in the top of it to make it nicer.

Wanna try this?...here is the recipe...

Chocolate Cup Cakes

original recipe from Butter Cake II by Fatmah Bahalwan

Ingredients :
120 gr butter
200 gr sugar
140 gr flour
50 gr cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder
2 eggs
150 ml milk

Directions :
1. Preheat oven to 180 C, line paper cup on 12 muffin baking sheet.
2. Sift together flour, cocoa and baking powder, set aside.
2. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla powder until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
3. Add sifted ingredients alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Beat well after each addition.
4. Pour batter into muffin sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes.
5. Cool in pan for about 10 minutes - remove to racks.


Topping :

Melted 100gr of dark cooking chocolate in a sauce pan, add 2 tb butter, stir until well combined and used it quickly. To put the topping in the top of cake, I just dip the cup cake to the melted chocolate then set it in the rack for a while before putting the strawberry chocolate in the top ot it. You can also use any kind of sprinkles or BC to decorate the cup cakes.

Satu Tahun Bersama TITAN

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Aku kenal nama Titan dari milis NCC setelah itu sering tanya-tanya ke Sari mengenai letak Titan dan Sari banyak cerita juga mengenai Titan. Berhubung banyak kendala intern yang menyebabkan aku sulit bergerak ke Titan, selama ini aku banyak belanja keperluan kue ke Tbk di pasar dekat kantor. Sampai pada akhirnya, tepat setaun yang lalu aku ambil cuti dari kantor sehari untuk ke dokter gigi sekaligus pengen tau yang namanya TITAN!!! heboh nggak siihhh pake cuti segala demi pengen tau yang namanya Titan hehehehehe....

Jadilah aku pergi ke dokter gigi pagi-pagi, janjian jam 8 pagi untuk ngurusin gusi gigi ku yang banyak masalah...kelar itu semua dianter oleh kakak aku beserta asisten dan anak-anak meluncur ke Titan. Nggak sulit bagi kami untuk menemukan Titan berkat informasi ancer-ancer yang aku dapat dari pegawai Titan yang aku telpon sehari sebelumnya dan dengan ramah dan tepat memberikan ancer-ancer yang paling gampang dipahami.

Singkat cerita sampailah aku dan rombongan di Titan. Plang Toko yang eye catching bikin aku udah jatuh hati dari awal hehehehe...trus ditambah dari pintu depan udah mandeg dulu gara-gara kagum sama oven listrik segede gonjreng hehehehehe...kampungaaannn yaaa....setelah puas mengamati, kakak ku trus narik aku masuk...Begitu masuk ke dalam toko Titan lebih jauh...tarraaaa.....waaahhh nyaman bangetttt....addeemmm...penjaga tokonya ramah-ramah dan penuh senyum, wangi bahan kue bertebaran, beda jauh sama Tbk pasar yang sering aku kunjungi. Dah gitu..ck..ck..ck....bikin kalap euyyyy....

Kebetulan putra kedua mo ultah yang pertama minggu depannya, lha sekalian aja segala macam yang kuperlukan aku beli disitu. Beneran deh kayak one stop shopping place untuk urusan kuliner. My brother yang nganterin ikutan excited dan saluut dengan Titan. Aku trus memborong beberapa loyang, cetakan kukis, mainan hiasan kue, tatakan kue, dus kue, cetakan praline, halahhh...banyak banget deh pokokna belum lagi bahan-bahan kue yang super lengkap dan segambreng gojreng hehehehehe....udah gitu mbak-mbak yang standby disana juga cekatan, ramah, dan selalu siap sedia membantu...wah makin seneng deh.

Pernah suatu ketika di kunjungan yang kesekian kalinya, aku nguplek bagian hiasan kue dan cup cakes. Ngamatin sambil menimbang-nimbang mo beli yang mana. Pengennya sih dibeli semua itu berbagai jenis sprinkles, coklat hias, dll tapi dompet euyyy...akhirnya si mbak membantuku membuat pilihan. Kebetulan saat itu aku lagi dapet pesanan cup cakes 50 biji untuk ultah keponakan temen tapi aku nggak punya banyak waktu untuk decor berhubung mepet banget waktunya. Si mbak menyarankan sprinkles bentuk binatang karena yang ultah anak-anak...dan bener euyyy....begitu sampai rumah dan mulai celupin cup cakes ke melted dcc dan kasih sprinkles binatang...cakeeepppp.

Bulan ini sudah satu tahun aku mengenal Titan dan sepertinya klo bisa tiap hari deh kesana hehehehehe....Saat ini tiap kali boss di kantor cuti or tugas keluar kota dan luar negeri aku selalu memanfaatkan waktu makan siang yang ada untuk kabur ke Titan hehehehe...habis klo nyari waktu lain susahhh maklum rumah jauh jadi nyolong-nyolong waktu aja. Dan saking nggak bisa tiap kali mampir sana, sudah dipastikan tiap kali ke Titan aku borong, untuk stock terutama untuk bahan-bahan kue dan cake yang nggak semua Tbk menyediakan.

Temen kantor yang punya hobby baking yang sama lama-lama penasaran, dan daripada tanya melulu akhirnya aku geret sekalian ke Titan dan hasilnya sama...jadi addicted sama Titan juga huehehehehe....tiap kali kami lagi makan siang bareng or ngobrol-ngobrol ibu satu ini selalu tanya "Dew...kapan lagi kita ngabur ke Titan?...besok yuuukkksss..babe nggak ada kan?" huehehehehehehe....dan memang kemarin, hari Kamis, aku dan 2 orang temen kantor benar-benar ngabur ke Titan untuk melampiaskan hasrat kekekekekekekekkkk...

Thank you Titan, udah banyak bantuin aku dalam hal mendapatkan berbagai kebutuhan baking dan usaha per kue-an. Diriku masih penasaran dengan Titan di Kelapa Gading, secara tiap minggu ke Kelapa Gading untuk ke gereja, pengen bangettt bisa mampir.

Satu hal lain yang masih menjadi impian adalah ikutan kursus Titan, nyimpen brosur kursus udah dari kapan taun...mudah-mudahan saja ke depannya segera terwujud :-)

Sukses selalu ya!

Vanilla Cup Cakes for Christian

Besides ordering the birthday cake, Mia also ordered about 50 cup cakes for Chris' birthday party. As I am a big fan of vanilla, again...for cupcakes I made vanilla butter cakes with dark chocolate frosting and animals sprinkles.

Vanilla and dark chocolate, another perfect combination. As from 2 1/2 vanilla butter cake recipe I made came out with 58 cup cakes, I took some to work to share with my office-mate asking for her opinion and critics. She is a big fan of cakes and she said "ehm...very good vanilla butter cake Dew...and the frosting just perfect!" Well, thank you very much Rin, I take that as a compliment :-)

Power Rangers Birthday Cake for Christian

I received sms from Mia, my best friend on Thursday, asking me whether I would have time to make a birthday cake for her nephew. As I said yes, she e-mailed me the cake theme which was Power Rangers.

Well, absolutely a challenge as I have never made Power Rangers' theme before. So combining with some ideas from Sedap Cake Decorating Book, I tried my best in decorating this cake for Christian Immanuel.

Basic cake as usual using vanilla sponge cake with vanilla butter cream and strawberry paletta filling. This layer cake has been favorite in our family and some people who have tried it. The combination between vanilla taste and strawberry is really perfecto.

I hope Christian would love his 6th Birthday Cake. Happy Birthday Chris!!

Thomas & Friends

Another birthday cake with Thomas & Friends theme that I made for Jonathan & Wimar who celebrated their 2nd birthday together on Sunday, 17th June.

Actually there was a little pond with 3 little ducks behind Thomas the Engine but the whole thing couldn't captured right with my camera.

The basic cakes was chocolate sponge cake with the filling mix of chocolate ganache and blueberry paletta. To give a different and unique taste I added some instant coffee to the syrup and it really made the cake tasted better and the texture moister.

Jonathan 2nd Birthday Cake

As Jonathan is a big fan of Thomas The Tank Engine, that why I made Thomas theme for his second birthday cake. The basic cake was vanilla sponge cake with filling mix of vanilla butter cream and strawberry paletta. Perfect combination of vanilla and strawberry taste.

Princess Birthday Cake for Vinda

This princess birthday cake I made for Vinda, my little neighbor who celebrates her 1st Birthday today, June 4th. Her mom asked for a 40 x 40cm pink birthday cake with princess theme. The basic cake made from yellow sponge cake with strawberry and vanilla filling.

Again, Happy 1st Birthday Vinda!!

Flowery Cup Cakes

These lovely cupcakes are always nice to share with people you love. With the taste of orange and strawberry experience a new taste of buttercream in a cup cake.

Welcome baby girl

A Welcome cake for a beatiful Baby Girl, Naya...

Chocolate Cake with blueberry

Another Chocolate Cake for boss' birthday. Made from 2 layer chocolate sponge cakes with combination of blueberry jam and ganache filling, a unique combination. Delicious ganache topping as usual for those the chocolate lovers :-)

Chocolate Chips Oatmeal Cookies

My daughter always loves chocolate chips cookies. Last night she asked me to make it, she said she wanted to take the cookies to school for the next day. Hemmm...I have been thinking of making some oatmeal cookies as I have many oats stock in the kitchen so as my daughter asked for some chocolate chips cookies I thought I will just making chocolate chips oatmeal cookies for her then.

When first batch was done...I asked my daughter to try one cookie. Slowly she ate the cookie and in a few second she said "Enak Ma!, thank you" (Yummy, Mom, thank you!). Then I also gave a try and my baby was just absolutely right!