HO HO HO....WE wish you a merry X'mas and A Happy New Year!

Today is 28th Dec , and I thot I am going to clear all these backlogs, all the entries with photos only with no writeups, but I guess they'll have to wait cos tomorrow is my son's birthday, looks like I have to KIV my blog updating cos I might be cooking up something for him and his friends. plus a few ironings need to be done as hubby is going outstation this evening.
I'll try to sneak in every now and then, so this entry and a few more would have to wait for now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

This set is for a dear friend, to usher in new year with well wishes, of hopes, joy and happiness thruout the year 2010 and beyond.

this set is to complement the two carrot cakes that she ordered for X'mas and for new year wishes.

Rivers don't drink the water they carry,

Trees don't eat the fruit they bear,

clouds don't bathe in the rain they produce,.

We are meant to GIVE even if we get nothing from it.

Measuring life by what others do may disappoint us,

but measuring life by what we do will make life meaningful!

Let us thank Allah for the joy and success we enjoyed in 2009,

regardless of its pains and disappointments.

Wishing you and everyone healthy, wealthy each day of 2010.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

" a quote from an sms " received.

Atie and Olie's pink and white engagement sets

looks familiar, right?except for a few details on the cupcakes and the side of the cake plus the flower and ribbon and butterflies on the boxes.

tini specifically requested for this pink and white set similar to the one I made recently. They were for her sister's engagement ceremony held on 26th dec 2009.

so sweet, so romantic, so soothing, so blissfully serene, calm and tranquil, looking at these pink and white buttercream roses on these vanilla cupcakes

the ganache gave a stark contrast to the soft pink and white flowers with "Selamat Bertunang Atie & Olie on pink and white fondant decorated with silver dregees on the borders of the fondant heart shaped base.

Atie herself with her other sister came to collect them.ramai betul adik perempuan Tini. So far I have met three of them.

Wishing Atie, "Selamat Bertunang " dgn pasangannya, Olie. Atie ni manis orangnya, bila dah bertunang ni, bertambah2 lah manisnya....

Tini, thank you for trusting me with these sets.

engagement ganache roses

CT requested a chocolate cake for her sister's engagement. the design and deco, up to me.

I decided to make this roses made from ganache which thankfully turned out beautifully and elegantly with gold dregees scattered on top and inedible golden beads on the side with golden ribbon, inedible too, as the border.

As much as CT 'sayang' to let go of this CMC to her sister's future groom side, I was a bit sad to let go of it too because it's such a beauty to look at, just couldn't get enough of it.For what its worth, I am just happy at the same time seeing the happy look on CT's face, that means a world to me.

To CT's sister, sorry dear, I didn't get your name, but wishing you and your partner,:"Selamat Bertunang" and to CT, thank you dear for trusting me with your sister's engagement cake, for letting me share part of the special occasion.

peach for wedding hantaran

more MCB with bling bling

It's unofficially official....

what is? My classes... my sharing of knowledge session., had commenced!

I was at my umi's house, drafting what I was going to write, my schedule and the module for the upcoming classes. Like I said, I was away fom my oven but not away from my sister's oven!
I asked her to take me to the shops here in Kota Bharu and see if they have something that i couldn't get in Alor Star but we ended up buying the ingredients for marble cheese brownies instead!

" looks like not the student is going to the teacher's house but the teacher is coming to the student's house" she said. she had been planning to come over to my house for quite some time now but something always came up and since I was back home, she took this opportunity...

a new menu at Zue's Oven, kek lapis kukus masam manis

mixing the ingredients for choc cuppies using hand held mixer. mula tu pakai kenwood hand blender, silap2 tak lama lagi, pakai kenwood chef or major lah kakak saya ni..

only the hands can be seen as my sister is a shy person, just like me...ye ke?:-)it's 100% hands on, from mixing to drawing ( i just showed her a little bit and the rest she did on her own) and baking. or decorating lessns, she would have to come over to alor Star ya.... no proper tools here, but who knows, after a while, she'd be more advanced than me!

my sister ni berseni jugak orangnya, she sew her own tudung bawal, the manik2 and deco on the tudung, pandai buat cross stitch ( that is one thing i have no idea on how to do and she can bake too!

she wanted to learn two recipes,MCB and choc cuppies. I wouldn't call this teaching, but more of sharing knowledge. What I know I share it with her and

in return i later become the student and learn how to make this kek lapis masam manis from my sister. But she did most of the baking and steaming cos i was already fast asleep on her bed in her room , hat five hour driving the previous day was really taking its toll on me....( her hubby was outstation ), by the time I woke up, the cake was done....:-)

this was drawn by her daughter.

Thanks for putting us up for the nights and for your great hospitality sis, not forgetting the nasi kak wok for breakfast and best of all, your nescafe susu....

if only....

Belated birthday cake for Umi dearest

Umi with some of her cucus, granddaughters ( all girls here ) with her chocolate fruit birthday cake all the way from alor staq

Anything for you dear....

"Ma, before you leave tomorrow, could you please make me brownies, my spec yang banyka kacang tu"

I am not sure if i still have the cashew nuts in the fridge, I'll have a look, okay"

Just his luck, only a few grams left but enough to mix with the other nuts, almond and walnut for the luxury brownies.

and also please make me cheesecake, yang biasa tu". Got it, dear.

Luxury brownies and plain bake cheesecake for hubby and friends.

Selamat hari Lahir Umi

A belated birthday cake for my Umi who celebrated her birthday on Dec 17. Since we were going back, I decided to bake one for her.

this is the chocolate fruit cake which I had accidentally poured a scoop of cocoa powder mixture into it, but the taste, was not affected at all.

I had finished packing, the BEN 10 was already been picked up by ana and we were ready to leave when I saw my fruit cake still bare! naked! no deco whatsoever on top.

know what I did? took the ready to roll fondant, makde the base and luckily there were a few roses left, nozzled out thepink buttercream where I wanted to place the roses and made some leaves with the green buttercream. all that was done in less than five minutes

wrapped with red ribbon with gold hearts, placed it in another box and put it in the car and off we went on our journey back to Kelate.

after a nonstop five hour driving along the east west highway, we reached my parents' house at 3.30 pm. The cake was safe and sound inside the box and I happily and proudly presented it to my Umi.

Selamat Hari Lahir Umi, love you heaps, more than words can express.

BEN 10 birthday cupcakes

how's the drawings? not bad, ? not good? good enough for amatur. last minute request for ben 10 on cuppies, no time to order edible image, my last resort was to draw ben 10 straight on the fondant piece.

wouldn't want to disappoint an 8 year old Rafiq.

Asked Ana if her friend, who requested these cuppies for her brother, how she likes the cuppies

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" hye- suke suke. dia kata cantik n ingatkan simple je, tu baru sikt je, blum all out lg---hehehe..belum tengok yg k.zue buat 4 me b4, lg gempak...."

Happy 8th birthday Rafiq, be a good boy okay. thanks Ana , and friend who requested for these cuppies

Home Sweet Home

It's good to be back...
Home Sweet Home!
I will update the cakes that I made just before I went back to Kelantan later on okay.

we started our journey from Kelantan this morning at about 9.30 am, stopped for a couple of minutes at Bukit Bunga and stopped again for lunch at Hj. Ramli Spg Empat for kari tulang and fried chicken and reachd HSH at around 4.30 pm after driving the car thru a car wash at Jalan Langgar.

We were away for three days, three days away from my oven ( but not from my sister's oven! / more stories on that later).

i had to go back to my hometown for personal reason and as hubby dearest couldn't free himself from his job, I asked my good friend if she's like to join me since she also mentioned about going back home to her hometown in Pasir Mas.

That night, while I was preparing my last minute order of Ben 10 cuppies and also a fruit cake to bring home to my mum as she had just celebrated her birthday on 17th Dec, hubby called requesting me to bake him the cheesecake and brownies, his version is the nutty one, Luxury Brownies with lora lorra nuts, almonds, walnuts and cashews.

I made all the three cakes,:- plain bake cheesecake, fruit cake and Luxury brownies ( and ganache too for the BEN 10 cuppies ) at the same time, while I boiled the water for the mixed fruits, I melted the butter for the cheesecake base, and at the same time weighing and sifting the flour and cocoa powder for the brownies. whilst the machine was beating and creaming away the butter and sugar for the fuit cake, I chopped the nuts and etc, etc.

while doing all those, I put the two recipes , fruit cake and Luxury brownies close together as they were in two different note books , when the instruction required me to put the flour inside the butter and sugar, (mixture for the fruit cake), I accidentaly poured the brownies flour mixture which contained some cocoa powder in it ! the machine was on as I poured it in and I realised that I was pouring in the wrong mixture! Now my fuit cake became " chocolate fruit cake and you will see why I called it with that new name when you see the photo later.

Left my HSH on Sunday morning at 10.30 am and reached my other HSH ( my parent's home ) at 3.30 pm. Non stop five hours driving through the East West highway. My first experience driving on the highway , not as the co-driver and be able to enjoy the beautiful hilly view but the person responsible for the safety and comfort of my passengers, who are my children and my friend with her daughter. Now I know how my hubby must have felt after the driving...very tiring indeed!

Congratz Brie and Deyla

"Congratz Brie and Deyla"

ikan di laut, asam di darat

ikan di laut,
asam di darat,
dalam periuk,
harus muafakat?

doesn't sound right, does it?
but what I am trying to say is... I think you know what I am trying to say.....:-)

Ina in KL but from Alor Star, Syidi from Malacca but their cuppies met here, in Taman stadium, before making their way to Jalan sultanah for the engagement ceremony.



9 piecesof M size and 25 pcs of S size chocolate cuppies with ganache , with mixture of buttercream and fondant deco., with chocolate fondant for the leaves.

This set is ordered by Ina for "makan2"., same design as the engagement set.....similar but not the same.

From Malacca to Alor Star with love

"Please use the design but use grey and silver for the theme. TQ"



so I did something almost similar to the requested design but i added a small touch, an engagement ring on one of the cuppies.

This is the sms that I received from Syidi yesterday,( 3 days after that special day )

"cupcake yg akak wat tu lawa btol.Yg best tu ade cincin tu. Thanks kak sbb sudi watkan saye nyer cc. sbelah tunang puas hati ngan design"

i thank you too syidi for trusing me with your engagement cuppies and for the opportunity to create something with these two gorgeous colours. i didn't know that grey could make such lovely design , as for the silver, I used silver dregee instead since I couldn't really get the actual silver colour.



"Selamat Bertunang Syidi and Syafinaz" was the wordings requested.

fondant butterfly and small blossom on buttercream swirl.

grey heart shaped fondant on white buttercream swirl on a buttercream covered chocolate cupcake with silver ribbon.

Thanks to Ina too, for recommending your fiance to place his trust in me to order the cuppies for your special day. May you both find happiness together.

crysanthemum cuppies for Ina's engagement

"Wslm..I don't mind really, in fact i love it very much. Thank you very much.."



a simple sms but means a lot to me.



As Ina was getting ready for her big day, (today is her engagement day), she took a few minutes of her precious time to sms and thank me for these cuppies. Her brother came to collect them because her schedule was really tight as there was a change in their plan.




We had been exchanging e-mails, smses and phone calls ever since I first received her e-mail more than a month ago. She gave me a smaple of what she wanted.

My first crysanthemum flower, hope it looks like what it should. this was what Ina wanted and I gave my best shot, wouldn't want to disappoint her.

Went to the shop to get the boxes and some ribbons and saw this bead and I bought them in different colours as I thot they looked kinda pretty. Found this brown flower lace in my ribbon and lace box and decided to deco this plain glass with pretty lace and beads and this is what I get.

place the decorated cupcake inside the decorated glass. For an amateur, I am quite pleased with myself.

For my own wedding I didn't have this opportunity, no nice wedding favours or cupcakes, not even a wedding cake ( it was just a small wedding reception, not that it matters much ), I want every gals and guys who are getting married or getting engaged to have the finest and the most beautiful things that they can get and this is my contribution to their special day and I hope in my own little ways it would make it special and memorable.

wishing Ina and fiance, "Selamat Bertunang"

romantic bouquet

Can't take my eyes of you
you're just too good to be true

well.. can't take my eyes off these cuppies, so sweet and so full of love...

just found out from kak ita that they are actually from the groom to the bride and i guess it suits the occasion perfectly.
It was for the akad nikah ceremony which was held yesterday in sungai Petani.



kak ita wanted me to complete the whole set , from the cuppies to the hantaran box.




I used the fondant rose atop the white and red bows. I looked up for suitable flowers to match with the cuppies but found none. Last resort, I used the fondant rose that I made earlier andthankfully, it matched perfectly.






Romantic bouquet with small red roses and soft brown flower fillers on top of a white fondant covered chocolate cupcakes. Placed nicely and cosily in a cup decorated in black beads.

Thank you so much Kak Ita for trusting me with this order. Really enjoyed making them and I was so glad tha you like 'em too as much...and thanks again for yor endless and continuous support.

"Teringin" pineapple pie

My first pineappple pie!thanks to Nas!

I've heard of apple pie, who hasn't.... pumpkin pie, treacle pie, and all sorts of pie but pineapple? There's pineapple jam tart, pineapple upside down cake, but pineapple pie?

therefore when Nas smsed me saying that she's "teringin" nak makan pineapple pie after seeing the apple pie ,here in my blog, I said, I could give it a try. I had made apple pie and I guess it wouldn't be much difference between the two, right?or so I thought....

to be sure, I looked up for the recipe and found a few in the internet. thanks to google and the power of the new technology. The aroma was soo good when it was baking in the oven and I thought I must have done it right but I haven't actually tasted it so I wouldn't really know what it tasted like.

I do hope that Nas would enjoy the pineaple pie with her family. thank you Nas for putting up to this challenge.