French Macarons

I remembered trying to make macarons some 1.5 years ago and it didn't turned out well. Since then I haven't really wanted to make macarons ever again and everytime people asked me do I know how to make macarons I will always come up with a lot of excuses of how tedious is it to make, the very high failure rates I've been hearing for a lot of people etc.

Anyways, it was my birthday a month ago, and I invited friends to come over to my house cause I wanted to cook something. I made Nasi Ayam, Tiramisu and some Devil's Food Pecan Praline Cake. There were some egg white leftovers from the Tiramisu so I decided to keep them in the fridge.

Prior to that, I saw a guy friend of mine made macarons and it turned out good from the picture. I thought, hey, if he can make it, why can't I? So I decided to try a few days after my birthday... Turned out it was a success! I guess the weather was perfect that day.

So after a few trials and samples I gave to friends I had people asking for orders.

I've decided to sell them in these options.

Plastic containers
16 pieces = RM32

6 pieces = RM 14

Macaron box
6 pieces = RM12

(Haven't had a photo of the box yet)

As for the fillings, I currently only make chocolate filling and pistachio (made from ground pistachios). Feel free to order! Please order at least 5 days prior to collection date because I needed the time to age the eggs and prepare them. Thanks!

Cakes Ordered by Friends

Another post of the day..

Cakes I sold as ordered by friends.

Rainbow Cake

Red Velvet Cupcakes

100 Red velvet with two toned cream cheese frosting with boxes and ribbons for a friend's nikah

Cakes I Made from May-June

So.. it was my birthday in early May so I decided to try a new cake recipe other than Red Velvet, 'The Best Chocolate Cake', Banana Cake, Carrot Cake, Butter Cake etc.

So.. I decided to bake Devil's Food Chocolate cake with Pecan Praline, layered and topped with whipped cream + roasted pecan nuts. A cake I baked on my birthday for me n friends. Bought pecans days earlier and was thinking of what cake to bake. Finally decided to combine two different recipes from the internet at 3pm, a few hours before the supposed party started in between marinating chicken for my chicken rice and cooking the rice. Everything is a good when u have nuts especially pecans with it.

And my brother got engaged last 2 weeks, so I decided to make this special cake again for my future sister in law's family to indulge, with special decorations of course! Buttercream ombre petals with macarons topping!

Oh, and previously for their merisik I baked Red Velvet cupcakes with roses buttercream

Hello Baked By Umi~~

Hello My Dearest Baked By Umi blog..

Business was put to halt for the whole last year, and half of this year as well. I haven't been selling much of my cakes since the last time I wrote... but I've been baking cakes for family and friends in between. I'm going to share some of my bakes here.

Today was the celebration for one of my nephew's birthday. The theme requested was Spongebob Squarepants. I decided to to use fondant this time, and this is my very first cake with full coverage of fondant. I've been working with small fondant figurines but haven't really incorporate the fondant for the whole cake, as I don't really favour the taste of the fondant itself to be eaten with the cake. Anyways, pretty cakes made people happy as well, so I decided to make use of fondant for my nephew's birthday. I used banana cake which has already been our family's favourite. The fact of having buttercream on top of banana cake might affect the beauty taste of the cake itself, I decided to use fondant so that people can easily separate that fondant part and enjoy the cake by itself.

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Last week was another nephew's birthday, and the theme was Minecraft. I made a minecraft grass block cake, however the block isn't square enough. Hehe. It was too high for a dense chocolate cake to be assembled so I decided to end up with 3 layers. The filling in between was nutella cream cheese and on the sides of the cake I covered it with oreo + graham crackers to resemble the dirt.

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So that was my nephew's 2013 birthday cakes. Last year we had combined celebration at their grandparents so I made this combined cake for them. Optimus Prime and literally 'Bumble bee' Rainbow Cake with cream cheese filling and frosting. 

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Oh, and this is the 2 tier wedding cake I made for my dear friend at Terengganu in January 2012. Well, the cream cheese frosting didn't cooperate well, I am still in my queer to find a good method and a good recipe to produce a cream cheese frosting that will hold longer in warmer temperatures. Using the cream cheese frosting on cupcakes didn't worry me much, but to put them on a whole cake, smoothing it to perfection was troubling. Well I guess I should go into rustic looking cakes when it comes to cream cheese frosting ey? ;)

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And.. this is the recent 8 inch red velvet cake a friend ordered for her mother's birthday, just a simply good looking one. :)

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So that's about it for now. :)

Orders Closed for December till Mid January 2012

Hello..

Oh dear I don't feel right writing about this but I have to stop taking orders till 15 January 2011. Thank you for the overwhelming orders my friends, I appreciated it so much! Though the orders isn't that much but it kept me busy to at least bake one batch of red velvet every week :) 

I will be having my final exam starting 5th January 2011 till 14th January 2012. I need to start chaining my self to pass year questions, books and notes for a few weeks! ;). Though I will miss baking so much till January, I still hope you won't miss my red velvet that much :p.

I have already accepted a few orders in December, so feel free to squeeze in your orders in these dates as I will only bake for these dates for now. 

2011
27 November - 80 red velvet cupcakes + 80 chocolate cupcakes (2oz)
28 November - 8 red velvet + 8 chocolate cupcakes (2oz)

30 November - 6 inch red velvet cake

4 December -  6 inch red velvet cake

16 December - 25 red velvet cupcakes (2oz)

2012
21 January 2012 - 2 tier red velvet wedding cake for my dear friend in Terengganu, yes, I will bake them in Terengganu!


Wish me luck for my exam!!

Parents' Anniversary Cupcakes

My former MMU buddy wanted to celebrate his parent's anniversary (forgot to ask how many years *facepalm*). Anyways, of course I don't really have much idea on how to decorate, so I decided to use the Wilton grass tip this time around. Bought the tip for quite some time but have yet to try it until today! I love the output!

*Psst. they're green coloured cream cheese by the way*

Apart from this 25 fancy red velvet cupcakes, I made another 100 plain red velvet for my brother in law's office's party. (Time to expand my business to another big corporation in KL :p)

This will be my last project before my final exam. Hihi. I'm so worried for my finals! *Gulp!*

Kid's Birthday Cake

My friend ordered this for her colleague's daughter's 2nd Birthday. Her name is actually Humairah, but she is called Merah. How cute.

I think my teddy bear looks kind of funny. Better luck next time. :)