Demotivated

Happy CNY to all of u :) Have been really busy wif cny cookie orders that i have no time to blog at all. So sorry.

My PME course came & go, selina came back 3 weeks back, & next week would be her last week here... :( CNY passed with a flash, and i promised my parents no more fooling around after CNY. This time, i really need to start sending out my resume. IT was forecasted that Malaysia will feel the delayed effect of the economic crisis after CNY.. -_- Dem pressured, & dem worried i cant secure a job. & i til today i still do not know whether i want to take up audit or just do plain accounting or work in a bank or in investment firms. After all of the horrifying stories i heard from ppl from the audit line, im thinking twice about taking up my CPA. If given a choice, i would rather complete the other 2 PME course & sit for my Masters -_-

Anyhoooo... just realised that there r lots of ppl out there who r not aware that custom made cakes r slightly more expensive thatn secret recipe cakes. They think that custom made cakes is cheap. I need more of customers who appreciate my art work. After all, im spending up to 8 hours DECORATING just one cake,YES THAT'S HOW LONG IT TAKES. All my fugire models r done by hand, NO MOULDS. Sometimes it's really frustrating when ppl wan really really elaborated designs but when u tell them the price, they will say it's expensive -_- I guess the Malaysian market is not well informed. After all, ppl wan cheap & nice things, who doesnt?!?!

Really hope to kick start my business ASAP. I mean it's already rolling off, but parents r not supportive of wat i like to do. They think i will not be able to earn a living out of this. Only a secured office job can do so... rite. My teacher told me do not give this up, cos his parents didnt like that he quited his job as a CFO many yrs back & started baking & doing wedding cakes. But look at where he is now!!! He shall be my inspiration :)

Sorry, lots of ranting i know :P but it's my blog after all! bleak!

til next time, take carez! :)

PME Professional Course in Sugarpaste

Two days of my course has passed. I have met & learnt so many things & gotten lotsa tools essential in doing a decent looking decorated cake (i only had a pizza cutter and 2 artist paint brushes b4 this). Met really nice ppl all in the cake industry, all doing so well in wat they r doing! So inspired but at the same time intimidated -_-

They taught me about costing, & i realised i am way way undercharging my cakes. My 2tier hula bday girl cake could have easily be sold for more than rm350.... -_- YES i am not lying!! Shame on me to graduate as an accounting student & im not doing my costing & pricing right! U ask, y so expensive?? Cos of the time amount of time spent & also due to the designs on the cake, plus the hula girl decoration.

Anywayz, im the noob among the 5 students, cos all the other four ladies are ALL selling wedding cakes or plan to venture into wedding cakes, cupcakes or teach lessons from home.. My instructor is superb, very good teacher, the wedding cakes he make r gorgeous. & i was told paris hilton ordered cookies from him just last month.. He even made the sultan of brunei or was it selangor's cake WOW.

Money in baking industry is very lucrative, especially if u r able to do wedding cakes. They can fetch pretty high prices... Very very high prices for the art work u do.

I had 2days of classes in a row from 9 to 5 plus i only got to sleep for 3 hours last nite, so im pretty tired right now.

i will post up the pics of my cakes another time, muaX.

Hula Girl Birthday Cake

One of Ai Lin's fren's bday was just ystday. She was sweet enuff to let me do her fren's bday cake for her :) Was rather stressed out as i didnt really know how to decorate the cake, & i rarely work wif buttercream as icing.. normally i will use fondant as it's more stable in our malaysian weather. As it was a cheese cake underneath & it needs to be in the fridge, i cant use fondant.. -_- Fondant cannot be kept in the fridge!! It will "sweat" lol meaning it will be wet & sticky la.. :P

First it was decided to be a round 8 inch baked cheese cake with a hula girl ontop, but changed my mind, & told ailin a 2 tiered cake wif the hula girl ontop will look better. & here's the results, & glad that the bday girl liked it :)



The result of the stacked cakes, which i was quite happy wif :) As i couldnt stack the cakes at home, i didnt know how it will look. Cos each cake by itself looked rather plain..... :P i know i complain alot, bear wif me, i like my cakes perfect :P



I really liked how the hula girl turned out! the small flowers r oh-so-cute on her skirt!!! But i think the skirt will look better if each strip of green was thinner, it will look more realistic :P


She even had flowers on her hair!!!! :P This was last minute cos i was worried the flowers wouldnt stick.


Happy Bday Shooks! & it was a challenge since it was my FIRST time writing a birthday msg on the SIDE of a cake... -__- glad it turned out good. Had fun doing the cake, thanx ailin once again :)


I am bloody exausted cos i've been baking pineapple tarts from 2pm til 10pm at nite........... -__-

BUT, tomorrow is the first class of my PME sugarpaste course :D Happy happy joy joy. I'll graduate wif a diploma :) Will post pics on wat i did in class in the next post ;)

Stay tuned!

Happy New Year!!!

New Year New Resolutions!!! I musn't be so lazy, I musn't leech off my parents, I must GET A JOB!!!!! :P Looking at the current economy state, & it was even forecasted that the economy condition will be even worst, i need to secure a job quick. Yeap, right after CNY that is. Cos I have so many CNY cookies orders, that i cannot afford to slack. On the average i need to bake at least, 5 containers of cookies each day to finish baking before cny.. -_-

Remember about the diploma course in sugarpaste that i mentioned in the earlier post? I will be attending :) It in smacked in the middle of Jan, so i need to multi task & to plan my timing properly.. omg. However, im dem bloody excited!!! Now, i am demmmm tempted to complete the other courses & be a certified instructor.. ...... ... ..... .... but i don't know how the thing works, so... i can dream on -__- As if my parents will allow me to continue studying after spendin a bomb on my tertiary education...

Anwyayz, sorry for the lack of posts. December had been a busy month. Tons of cake orders to fill. Here r pics of a few :)


The pink & black fondant cake for my cousin



Blueberry cheese cake



Coffee chiffon fudge cake



Yein's bday monokuro boo cake



randall's xmas party cakes



Pet&You end yr party cake, i had a hard time covering the cake with fondant. the horror!!! -_- but quite pleased with the result.. but not 100% satisfied... i liked the doggie on the cake. dem cute, but it magically disappered... -_-



This cake was for dogs' consumption!! :P Loved the deco, lol Just found it a bit sad when we humans r busy partying & eating good food while the dogs sit & watch, so i baked thema cake for the yr end party :p

Have a good year ahead ;)