Hello Lovelies!

Hello lovelies!

Welcome to Baked By Umi. If you want the best Red Velvet Cupcakes/Cake, you're on the right blog! I usually received orders from friends and family, just feel like I need to have one blog for my sales. I'm a Malaysian homebaker, a recent M.Eng graduate and will try to entertain your orders if time permits. :). Feel free to contact me at bakedbyumi@gmail.com if you are salivating over these Red Velvets already! :p



Wednesday, June 5, 2013

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