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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Cookies


Are you ready for Valentine’s day? It’s just less than two weeks away and If you have not plan anything, It’s time to do so. I myself will make a plan very soon. I would like to bring hubby to a nice and cosy place like Gunter’s or like last year we went to Little Italy.

How about buying some gifts? There are few gifts that you can buy for your love ones. May be some perfumes from Elizabeth Arden or some basic Make up Set From Christian Dior. For the ladies, the list is actually endless.

If you plan to be different, you can order cookies.Yes, cookies. May be next year I will prepare something for you to choose as Valentine’s Day Gifts. I am recommending you a place on the net where you can order your cookies this year. Next year to can comeback to me and I will prepare some for you to choose especially a varieties of cakes. Meanwhile go and check Valentine’s Day cookies o give for that someone special.I think the milk chocolate chips taste great. I might as well get one for myself.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

CNY Cakes and Cupcakes Design


Chocolate Cupcakes for your New Year Celebration



Chocolate Cakes for your New Year Celebration


Butter Walnut Cake


Durian Cakes

Need Money This Chinese New Year?

Chinese New Year is coming and the kids and even the adult bachelors are demanding the red packets. School has just re-opened and Christmas was just over a month. You have spent so much for all those occasion. I must admit that December and January is the month that I use a lot of money. I have to spare some money to buy Christmas presents. I have to pay my Insurance, which has just expired. I need to keep some money for my Car insurance and Road tax payment, which is ending soon too. I need to start calculating my income tax. The list goes on. Do you still have money left for your disposal? I do not have any. In fact, I am tempted to take a Cash Advance or a payday loan this month. The good news is, today, there are many financial companies that offer payday loans. We just need to pick one and there is high chance that they will approve our application. I think Perfect Cash Advance is worth your consideration. These are the reasons. Cash deposited directly into your account overnight, Quick & Easy - No Credit Checks!, Safety & Security Guaranteed, 100% Online. Well, let me do some budget and decide. I still have a week to decide. Check the site and make a decision.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Money Other Than Cakes Business

Hello there cake bakers. What do you do apart from baking? Are you interested to know another way of making money other than baking? Do you want to get paid to write or blog about your interest? If you say yes to get paid for blogging,then join Smorty.com. It is a service that connects advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers can pay bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertiser’s site. I have to remind you that this will not interfere with your baking schedule as you have a choice to either accept their opportunities or decline them. It is easy. Spend a few minutes to write during your break and wait for their payment a week later. It is quite easy and you can do it anytime of the day or even at night. Get your laptop ready and stay connected if you do not want to miss any opportunities they have. It can be quite limited and grabbed very fast. However, do not worry; they sure reserve some for busy baker like you and me. Anyway, happy baking and do not forget to donate some cakes or cupcakes when you are earning high from your cake business and from blogging. I am here for you to call. Good Luck!

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Pink Barbie Doll Cakes


I baked this cake for my niece Darlene when she was 8th years old. I have never taken any course in making Barbie doll. she insisted that i baked one for her. I have to rush baking and decorating this cake as I have just baked and decorated a three tiers wedding cakes to be delivered to Kota Belud the next day. So, this is not perfect. Lucky we are not having a party for her so within family, this cake is fine. I would love to make a fondant icing barbie doll cakes. anyone would like to order? But wait until April ya..I will sure accept your order.


Thursday, January 24, 2008

My future online cake business

Are you an online shopper or seller? If yes, you must be no stranger to shopping cart or something like "add to your cart" when you make a purchase. I love online shopping and purchase so much now because I can just do it anytime as I like. Sometimes I can't get a friend as companion to shop whereas shopping alone would be boring. I hate to shop alone. Now, I do most of my shopping online. I simply love it. It’s easy, fast and exciting

The best part is, there are many baking items I can look for which sometimes are hardly found locally. This is the amazing of shopping cart software make the fussy people like me happy and satisfy.

Ashop Commerce is a leading US provider of hosted shopping cart software. It offers a complete solution for merchants to sell online. I will sure use it when I start selling my cakes online in the future. I might be able to send my cakes to as far as the United States. A reliable e-commerce software is crucial for the smooth running of an online business. User friendly is one thing and high security is a must in protecting us for using credit cards online. In the meantime, I need to learn as much as I can about baking and decorating.


Cornelly Design

Cornelly design is easy to do, Just pick any tip number 1-3 depending on how big the design you are interested in. Put in your butter icing or royal icing and you are set to go. It's just writing non stop C or S over and over again. Practise on a board before you put your hand unto the cakes. Rubbing off design is quite hard to do and the after effect is quite messy. So, have a steady hand
when you are making this design. It's not hard neither it's easy. Practice make perfect so do some practice before designing your cakes.

I normally use this design for cakes that has no theme. I mean any cake order that does not specify the occassion. Having said that, this is a good design for any pot luck, house warming party or if you intend to give it away for any occasion like baby shower or birthday parties.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Road Trip Vacation


Diplomat Hotel Stockholm

I dream of vacations. Even right now when I can’t travel by air. May be driving will be fine with me. The idea about driving in Scandinavian Countries or in New Zealand has been on my mind for as long as I can remember. The best part about driving vacation are I can stop anywhere I like, spend sometime to enjoy the place, savour nice food and get to know the people.Road trips are the best vacation for me.
Swedish Food
I was at Stockholm’s Airport twice last year. Just transiting from Kuala Lumpur to New York. I have made initial plan to spend at least two days in Sweden but having a meeting just after my US trip made me to cancel my whole plan to stay in the beautiful Scandinavians countries. Never mind, I am going back and I am more prepared this time. Why not? I have found a great website where I can find everything that I need. Hotels in all the places that I plan to drive to. They even have a last minute deals for traveller like me. It’s so easy to find hotel in Sweden, just visit Sweden hotels. If you can’t find any good hotel that you like,just hop to Stockholm hotels. if you are extending your stay to Norway, check this site for good deals Norway hotels and Oslo hotels. Just some important information for you if you decide to go to Norway in Winter; Some roads in Norway are closed during winter season but the main mountain crossings are intended to stay open throughout the cold season. It is always best to check this before going on any longer trips or crossing the mountains as the road closures vary depending on the weather conditions. For further information, please contact the Road User Information Centre. When in Norway simply call 175 (+47 815 48 991 from abroad). The service is open 24 hours.




Swedish Bakery

While on my driving vacation, I plan to stop by at as many bakery I can find and sample their best cakes. I would love to find some decoration tools or may be some idea how the swedish decorate thier cakes.I think I will make this road trip vacation in two years time. I need to save some money first. So,I am hoping for more business from my cakes.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Cake Decorating Demo

I was invited to give a demo on cake decorating to new mothers in Likas Hospital sometime last year. I don't consider myself to be good at this but just to give something to them I agreed. Those moms have to stay in the hospital to look after their newborn babies who are either premature, has some complication etc etc. Some even have to stay up to a month. The hospital management tried to find some activities for the moms to join.


Simple decoration done by me

Quite a number of mothers, nurses and even doctors joint in the activities. I have baked three cakes for the demo. I decorated one of them. It only took me half an hour to do it as it's quite easy. Then I asked the nurses and the mother to divide into two groups. Both have to decorate their own cake. Took sometime for the nurses to catch up with the moms.

I am glad that all of them enjoyed the demo and I left the 3 cakes for them to savour.


Decorated by the moms

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I need cash to buy a mixer


Last year my colleague told me that she wanted to take a loan. She said she needed cash now as she wanted to go to Sydney for a holiday with her family. I asked her, how to get that kind of payday loan. she told me I need to go to the bank, fill up a form and wait for a week for the loan to be approved.After that I need to sign an agreement letter and my pay will be deducted on a monthly basis. Well, that is a hassle for me. I hate going to the bank. I don’t like the queue in the bank, the traffic jam and going out from the comfort of my house. That is why I am always on the look for an easier way to take loans. An advantage of online payday loans to most people is that they are offered to the public anytime they want and anyway they live. They can be done anonymously to them and in the comfort of one’s home. I don’t think I will take loan to travel but I am aiming for a large mixer for my baking and I will consider taking cash advance with reasonable interest rates. I am checking this site to look at some reviews on which offer to take. I am hoping to the the large mixer as soon as possible.

DIY Wedding Cards

Looking for a local wedding stuffs?

Looking for local wedding cupcakes?

Look no further, check out this site and ask for quotation. She is creative and will sure add magic to your wedding.

Pink DIY wedding card
Simple, green and white wedding theme

Dare to be different!

Classic Wedding Card

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Whatever theme colour,you choose..

Engagement or Wedding, we have the theme colour for you..just order your cupcakes and let us be busy with decorating it.







Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Christopher&Juliet


p.s It was purple in colour and pink flower just to add contrast to the cake but the next morning, the soft colour that i used turned to blue and white. new year magic!!

My first attempt to decorate in purple and white colour engagement cake. My say: Ithink this colour combination is sweet and soft. I am not a fan of purple but I don like the drape that I made for the cakes. The ring box is my favourite. Congratulations to the newly engaged couple and thank you for the opportunity to decorate your engagement cake.


Decorated using Sugar Paste Flower. Icing made from fondant


Crimping made the corner of the cake look more feminine

Embossing method was also used in this decoration


My second time using drape on the cake. I love it as it made the cake appeared elegant and not too simple

The finish decorated cake
31 Dec 2007

New Year Design



Decorated with fondant icing

Fondant and Sugar Paste mix decoration


Chocolate cupcakes with fondant flower decoration


Light Blue and Pink Flower always a personal favourite of mine

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Where To get Cupcakes in Malaysia

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008

Cupcakes by deanacakes

For those who are wondering where they can get cupcakes in Malaysia, I will post their link here. I will keep on updating this post and I hope if you have other information or other link, do email to me or add to the comment. Hayy baking! and Happy Eating


1. Sabah - deanacakes

2. Sabah - art-fay

2. KL - Ellie kekcawan

3. KL - Farra funmuffin

4. KL - Azura-heycupcakes

5. KL- Ivy-D'cupcakes

6. Penang- Wenn

Sugar Paste Flower - New Design


Are you a baker or baker wanabe? When I have just started baking, my greatest concern was how to decorate my cakes or cupcake. I am lousy in decorating and when I check the local baking shop, I could not find any nice decoration items. So, I started to check online. yes, I found some but they only sell them online and it's way to expensive. So last two years I took a course in Sugar Paste making and now I can make my own sugar paste. So, for those of you who would like to use these items for decorating, just email me. I might be able to help you. check my other item in the FOR SALE categories.


White and Pink Version
Small sugar paste flower for cakes and cupcakes decoration

If you have limited time to decorate your cuppies, look here for simpler tips and save you all the trouble.


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