WHOOPIE Pie is here!

Sweet Cravings is now offering the infamous Whoopie Pie under our label brand SimplyDelish.

What is Whoopie Pie you might ask? Well a whoopie pie (alternatively called a gob, black-and-white, bob, or "BFO" for Big Fat Oreo) is a two round mound-shape cake with a sweet, creamy frosting sandwiched between them. Whoopie Pie is considered a New England phenomenon and a Pennsylvania Amish tradition and they are increasingly sold throughout the United States. According to food historians, Amish women would bake these (known as hucklebucks at the time) and put them in farmers' lunchboxes. When farmers would find these treats in their lunch, they would shout "Whoopie!". (wikepedia)

We now offer them in various flavours in a box of 12 pieces for RM24.00. Our pies are around 2" in diameter and made from the finest ingredients available. All our whoopie pies are made to order. Check out our pages dedicated on Whoopie Pie or our SimplyDelish website for further information.

SimplyDelish Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've been baking chocolate chip cookies for my family for quite some time especially for the festive season but had never offered them for sale. Recently, a good friend of mine came over for a visit and whilst we were talking about cakes and cookies, she vented that the chocolate chip cookies that she bought recently was not so good and that it was difficult to get a good one apart from Famous Amos, obviously. She then asked why was'nt my choc chip cookies being offered for sale? Hmm.. honestly, selling these cookies never crossed my mind since I was more into baking/decorating cakes. She then coaxed me to sell them and told me that if I do, she'll be my first and very loyal customer :). That was a month ago and since then, sales have been increasing.  So, if anybody wants a chocolate chip cookies, don't forget that you can get them here. I must say that they are delish :) In fact, there's a dedicated web for my cookies at http://www.delish-cookies.com/ Go check it out.

3D Cake - Tanker Ship

A request for a 3D cake in the shape of a tanker ship.

Barbie in a Mermaid's Tale

An edible image cake based from the latest Barbie's series - Barbie in a Mermaid's Tale.

Cake Pops

New at Sweet Cravings, we now have cake pops to cater for all occassions. What are cake pops you might ask. Well, its a cake covered with delicious chocolate on a lollipop stick. It's perfect especially for kids birthday as there's no mess, no need for cake cutting and no need for plates.

It's also great as gifts, 'hantaran' and door gifts for wedding, company functions etc. Choose from chocolate cake, vanilla cake, red velvet cake. You may also choose your own theme colour for the chocolate cover coating to suit your special occassions.

*min order applies to all orders.

Kek Lapis Roll

Salam To All and Selamat Berpuasa to Muslim Friends

For 2010, we are happy to announce that we are offering Kek Lapis Roll for Hari Raya Aidilfitri and for other occassions. Our current line up are as follows:

1. Lapis Piramid - RM15.00 (8.5" x 1.5" triangle)

2. Lapis Windmill - RM22.00 (8.5" x 2" x 2" square)

3. Lapis Mozek Masam Manis - RM22 (8.5" x 2" x 2" square).

Special price for 3 rolls at RM55.00 only.

Kek Lapis Roll Windmill

Kek Lapis Piramid

Gift cake

This is a cake that I did yesterday for a 17 year old girl. The mother did not specify any design and just wanted a nice design cake.. after some thoughts, I decided to go for a gift cake - a cake that resemble a box, wrapped with gift wrappers adorned with ribbon on top. The cake was chocolate cake decorated with chocolate fondant and pink fondant ribbon. Here's the cake.

More cakes

Salam Ramadan to all Friends

It's been quite some time since I posted in this blog. Been busy doing this..doing that :). Anyway, just wanted to share the 3 cakes that I recently did for 2 birthday girls and one guy. The first one was a football cake for a Liverppool die hard fan. The second was a pink castle cake with glittering purple turets and the second was a buttercream deco with edible images of cartoon characters from Disney etc such as Dibo the Gift Dragon, Little Enstein etc. Below are the pics for your viewing pleasure.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse

Another birthday cake for lil Hannani who celebrates her 2nd birthday today. Zara requested for a chocolate cake with edible image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. This is a 2.5kg cake decorated with buttercream. Thanks for the order Zara.

Black Label Wine Bottle Cake

I received this request from a repeat customer to do a wine bottle cake for her husband's birthday. She requested for Johnnie Walker Black Label (Special Edition) where the bottle is in black colour. This is a chocolate cake covered with black colour fondant. Some of the writings are printed image. The end result of the cake is as below.

More cupcakes and cakes

Its been a while since I last posted at my blog..been quite busy with office work and household work since I am now officially maidless after having sent my maid back to Indonesia. I am also helping out my fren in her business venture. Her blog should be up and running soon..(will post the address later) and do visit the blog ya where she will sell hijabs (headscraves) and later clothings.

Back to my cake decoration, for the past few weeks I had the opportunity to bake and decorate some cupcakes and cakes for my existing customers...thanks to all for the support and the repeat orders. Below are some of the cuppies and cakes that I did for your viewing pleasure.

A musical notes Anniversary cake. This is buttercream decorated cake

A purple theme engagement cake with a simple and sweet design.

A cake decorated with marshmallows. sweets, chocolates for a 2 year old birthday girl.

Frangipani and edible image of the couple decorated this green heart-shaped "hantaran" cake. The image of the couple was edited and merged from 2 different pictures.

A fairy theme cupcake for duo birthday celebration for 2 girls.



A Ben10 cupcake for a die-hard fan

Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer. A 2D Dora buttercream cake for a lovely 4 year old Khatijah.

Chelsea Football Cake

For a fan of Chelsea football club.

Upin Ipin

An edible image cake of Malaysian's most famous twins in children's tv series - Upin and Ipin.

Baby Shower

This was an order from Lin during the weekend for a colourful baby shower cupcake. Enjoy!

Kebaya cake

What do you give to a soft spoken lady who loves fashionable items in particular the tradisional malay kebaya for her birthday? ........ a pink Kebaya cake of course :).

Mini Cooper anyone?

I had never done a 3D car cake before and when I was commissioned to do one, I was both excited and scared...scared that the cake would not resemble a mini cooper. To do a 3D cake that needs to be carved, I had to change my normal buttercake recipe to something that would result in a heavy and denser cake. This way, the cake would not crumble when its put under the knife :).

Armed with a sharp serrated knife and pictures of a mini cooper in different angle, I started my mission. Let me tell you, it was hard work trying to make sure the bumps were at the correct places and harder still to ensure that all the finer details such as the handles were properly molded.

I was quite worried at first after I carved the cake as I could not see the resemblance but after the fondant was placed on the cake together with the other details, the cake came to life bit by bit. It was such a joy when I finished decorating it ..... 6 hours later!. And I was all smile when my son exclaimed, "Mr Bean's car". Mission accomplished :).

Under the Sea / Mermaid

A friend of mine requested me to bake a cake for her daughter's birthday. She had a barbie cake in mind but I told her that a Barbie cake was quite normal nowdays. Instead I suggested that she go for something different. She was open to suggestion and I suggested why not do an under the sea theme with a mermaid topper and other sea creatures adorning the cake. She agreed and last Saturday night, I started decorating the cake for delivery on Sunday morning. At first I wanted to cut the cake into 4 and layered them on top of each other and have the mermaid swam around the cakes but then she called and said that she wanted a simple cake that was easy to cut. So I decided to just arrange the various fondant toppers on the cake and voila! this is the end result. Enjoy!

Engagement Cupcakes

Received this order from a repeat customer. This time she wanted me to do engagement cupcakes in 2 different themes - red and white and the other one black, white and silver.

Ben10 Edible Image Cake

Another Ben10 edible image cake but this time, pictures of the birthday boys were cut, pasted and edited into the Ben10 picture. A 2 recipe chocolate cake (2kg++) to celebrate both Aiman and Fikri's dual celebration.

Vacation - Legend International Water Homes

Since it was the last week of school holiday, I decided to bring my kids to Port Dickson for a short holiday. It was an unplanned trip and we decided to scout around for the hotel rather than call and place a booking. We reached PD around 4.30pm and went to few hotels first to check out the availability and since it was school holiday, most hotels that we went were fully booked. We then drove straight to Legend International Water Homes to check out the place since there was an ad somewhere that states that every room there comes with its own private pool. I was really intrigued by it and when we arrived there, the only available room was the Sky Tower, which we grab nonetheless.

Stepping into our room was a sight indeed. The room was luxuriously furnished with 2 king size beds, its own private pool, a small kitchen with microwave oven and a separate toilet and shower that overlooks the sea.

The kids were full of ooh! and aahhh! and could'nt wait to jump into the pool which they did 5 minutes after we checked into the room. We had a great time staying here and the private pool was godsend ... no more lazing in the hot sun waiting for the kids to finish their swim. God willing, we will come back for another holiday here soon. Insyallah..

Manchester United

This is another Man Utd cake - a simple design this time for a fan. Thks Azmar for the order.

Optimus Prime / Barbie Doll Cake

This is an Optimus Prime (edible image cake) and a Barbie Doll cake for Joshua, age 7 and Lydia, age 5 who celebrated both their birthdays on Sunday. Happy Birthday to both of you and thanks to Alicia for the order.

CNY Cupcake

An order for CNY theme cupcakes for an "open house".

Alvin & The Chipmunk

An edible image cake of Alvin & The Chipmunk.

Basket of Flowers

This is an order from Ija for her daughter's birthday - a basket with flowers cake and flower design cupcake. The cake is vanilla butter cake whilst the cupcake is strawberry cake. The flowers are made from icing sugar and the icings are buttercream.

Under the Sea / Nemo

This is what i called Under the Sea Cupcake featuring Nemo. Cute? :)

Chef Wan's Emperor's Fried Sea Bass

During the Chinese New Year hols, I decided to try this Emperor's Fried Sea Bass recipe from Chef Wan that I saw at the Asian Food Channel. Was happy to say that the fish was delicious and was a hit with my family. To those who love good food and fish, try this recipe. Its simple and really easy to do.

Emperor's Fried Sea Bass
1 Fillet of Sea Bass, rubbed with salt, 2 Tablespoons / 1 oz Corn Flour and 1 Egg
125 ml / 4 fl oz Vegetable Oil for frying
3 Cloves Garlic, diced
¼ Cup / 2 oz Fine Sugar
½ Cup / 4 oz California Golden Raisins, finely diced
2 Tablespoons / 1 fl oz Fish Sauce
2 Tablespoons / 1 fl oz Plum Sauce
6 Red Chilies, finely pounded
¼ Cup / 2 oz Peanuts, pounded
1 Sprig of Coriander
2 Sweet Oranges, squeezed
Spring Onions and Lettuce for garnish
1 Cheek of Mango, cut into cubes
3 Tablespoons / 1 ½ fl oz Tomato Ketchup

Method:
1. Fry the Fish, which has been rubbed with Salt, Corn Flour and Egg, till crispy. Set aside.
2. In a frying pan, fry the garlic, pounded chilies, tomato ketchup till fragrant. Add the California Golden Raisins.
3. Add the plum sauce, fish sauce, oranges juice.
4. Add Vinegar, Salt and Sugar to taste.
5. Add cut mango
6. Lastly add Corn Flour if desire to thicken the sauce.
7. Pour over the Fish and serve.

Bon Appetite!

Handbag Cake

My first handbag cake - not so perfect but all in all I was happy with the first attempt. The cake is butter cake - 2 recipe with homemade marshmallow fondant in pink. All parts of the cakes are edible except for the handle.

Baby Full Moon

Cupcakes as gifts to celebrate baby full moon (a celebration, celebrating baby's first month).

Disney Princess

A lovely Disney Princess cake, using edible image for Wani's daughter, Marissa who celebrated her 1st birthday. This is a 1 recipe (8" square cake) chocolate cake layered with cookies and cream frosting and decorated in white and pink buttercream on top and at sides.

Latest pricing

Prices

The prices below are indicative prices. Actual price would depend on the cake flavour, types of decoration, complexity and weight/recipe.

All cakes start from base of 1 recipe (estimated weight of 1.2kg or 8" cake pan).

Please note that we use the finest and freshest halal ingredients for our cakes. All cakes uses pure butter, vanilla beans, callebaut or sicao chocolate.

Ordering

Cakes below RM100 would require full payment whilst orders above RM100 would require 50% deposit.

All cakes would require minimum 5 days advance notice. We strongly suggest that you book your cake in advance as we only take in few orders a week as to ensure that the cakes are baked freshly from the oven.


NOVELTY / BIRTHDAY CAKES

Cakes decorated with:

1. Buttercream cake - RM80.00. Additional recipe add RM40.00
2. Chocolate Ganache cake (imported chocolate) - RM90.00 subsequent recipe please add RM40.00
3. Edible picture cake - RM75.00 subsequent recipe please add RM50.00.
Decorations will be buttercream/choc ganache. Fondant based decoration please add RM10.00

3D/ENGAGEMENT/WEDDING

All cakes are decorated using fondant. If you require buttercream deco, please email us with details of the design / occassions and place of event. This is to ensure that buttercream deco is suitable for your event.

Price starts from RM100.00. Actual price will depend on the design, recipes, flavours and whethere there is any additional decorations such as toy figurine, fondant figurine.

For cake flavour, choose from Butter cake, Orange cake , chocolate cake, Hazelnut cakeFor Buttercream filling, choose from vanilla buttercream, starwberry buttercream, chocolate ganache, chocolate oreos buttercream.


CUPCAKES - Buttercream deco
1. Medium (2" diameter) = RM40.00 per box of 16pcs
2. Jumbo (2.5" diameter) = RM45.00 per box of 16pcs

CUPCAKES - Chocolate Ganache Deco
1. Medium (2" diameter) = RM45.00 per box of 16pcs
2. Jumbo (2.5" diameter) = RM50.00 per box of 16pcs

CUPCAKES - Edible Image Deco
Medium size only (2" diameter) = RM48.00 per box of 16pcs

CUPAKES - Fondant Deco
1. Medium (2" diameter) = RM50.00 per box of 16pcs
2. Jumbo (2.5" diameter) = RM55.00 per box of 16pcs

Individual dome plastic container - add RM0.30 to cost of each cupcake
Other types of containers please email for quotation.
Bulk order - please email for quotation.

Tarts (min 30 pcs per box)
1. Cheese tart - RM 1.20 per piece
2. (a) Fruit tart (kiwi/apricot, grape and apple) RM1.20 per piece
(b) Fruit tart (Kiwi, grape, strawberry) RM1.40 per piece

Kek Lapis (size 7" x 7") made from pure butter.
All lapis cakes priced at RM60 except for the following:
1. Lapis Walnut Aiskrim -RM65
2. Lapis Coklat Cadbury - RM653.
3. Lapis Cheese Oreo - RM65

Barbie Doll

A repeat order from Ayu. This time Barbie Doll cake for both her daughters, Alya and Aina.

Colourful Cupcake

Another colourful cupcake order for a birthday girl. A buttercream deco - large size cupcake.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse

Another edible image cake. This time it was Mickey and Minnie mouse - chocolate cake with buttercream deco. Enjoy!

Aqiqah Order

New year 2010 brought along a few big orders from customers. Mostly these were door gifts for aqiqah or celebration welcoming newborn to a family, birthday packs and wedding favors. Thank you to all of you for the orders.

For those interested in giving cupcakes etc to your guests at your event, please email me for price quotation. We can also arrange packagings as per your requirement. Remember, happiness comes in a small cup :).