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Aug
13

A typical Melayu hantaran cake

I made this cake today.. just for the fun of it. Before you start complementing me on the flowers, let me confess that those are store-bought (from Bagus). I am not a flower person, I would rather spend less than RM10 to get flowers as beautiful as this one. Trying to make a spray like …

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Aug
11

Lace Cake

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I am at the moment, in love with lace things, hence the inspiration for this cake.. Well, probably not all would agree with my taste. But I simply adored how this cake turn out. Actually I was trying out a few gadgets that I ordered online from UK. The equipments here are so expensive and …

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Aug
9

ICES Day of Sharing

Beads made from isomalt Today has been a wonderful day for me. I’m still tired, but excited to download all the pictures from the above event. ICES stands for International Cake Exploration Societe, and the Malaysian rep is our Miss Rosalind Chan (of ICCA, PJ). Here’s the brief description about ICES Day of Sharing : …

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Aug
3

Sprinkles & more

I miss baking. With all the cake decorating using cake dummies, my oven has not been utilized for quite some time. Today I baked some cupcakes for my hubby’s friends, who came by for lunch. Simply a reason for me to use the new sprinkles I bought yesterday. I found this new shop called Cake …

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Jul
31

Making roses without cutters

Hi everyone.. sorry for not updating this blog more often. Please subscribe to my RSS feed if you haven’t done so. Anyway, today I was fasting (ada gak rasa macam nak pengsan, baru 1st day ganti ! ) so I was quite tired and free of cooking. Took out my gumpaste and started making these …

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Jul
24

KL’s best burger

  I made this burger cake a while ago for a project (will let you guys know more about this later ) The buns are from butter cake, which I cut into two. The burger fillings are all done from sugarpaste. The dripping sauce – I coloured the sugarpaste red, and added a few drops …

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Jul
13

Malaysia International Bakery & Confectionery 2008 Exhibition

  Last Friday I managed to visit the above exhibition at Mid Valley. I guess I came too early as the judges were still there, and we were not allowed to go near the cakes exhibition until the judges had done their rounds giving the scores. All in all, I was a bit disappointed as …

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Jul
10

Making sea shells

I can’t remember the last time I was at the beach.. when we were young, we used to go to Teluk Batik for a swim. Those were the days . Collecting sea shells was always part of the itinerary. For today, I’m making some sea shells from fondant (sugarpaste). These seashells will go very well …

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Jul
6

Flower paste / gum paste recipe

This is another version of a gumpaste recipe. It uses gum tragacanth. You can also try making gumpaste using gum tex from Wilton. I’ve tried the recipe below and it works. So, as long as I can get hold of gum trag I will be using this recipe for all my flowers. Ingredients 500 g …

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Jul
2

Figure making

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Tried my hand in making figures again today.. I still think I have a lot to improve. I made a man figure sleeping on his belly. The first step, assemble all the body parts : I have shaped the hand and legs before gluing the parts together with some water. For the head, you may …

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