PME Royal Icing Module May 2011

Hi and salam,

3 girls signed up for this PME Royal Icing class and wow!! what a week fun it was. Liyana is a bit shy and asked that her photos not be published. Enjoy the photos!! FYI, next Royal ICing class is scheduled on the fourth week of June. Please call Sugarflours or email me at farida71@yahoo.com for details. 

In the meantime, I'm conducting a private class on Peony and its arrangement. Will upload the photos when the class is done. If you're interested in a private class in cake decorating or baking, please email me, we'll make arrangement that suits you.

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Nadia's Gazebo Cake

Nadia, congrats girl!!

All the techniques learnt were applied on these dummy cakes and the results were amazing!!

Congrats!

Liyana's Gazebo Wedding Cake

Liyana's embroidery cake ( the fondant are not supplied)

Anis' Gazebo

Nadia putting the lace onto her dummy cake

Anis' 2 tier-wedding cake

Anis from Anis Bakeri

Smiling lady

Have a wonderful holidays with your kids!!

Take care!!

Farida Ismail

Singing the notes!

Hi and peace be unto you,

I first saw the word "Opera Cake' on the Taylor's College part-time course brochure sometime back. And ever since then I've never stop wondering, what on earth is Opera Cake. How would it taste like? Is it nice? Is it worth it? And I've yet to go to their advance course. Then after a while, I let it go coz looking at the recipes makes me wanna weep.

I recently bought some very very good pastry books and my curiosity got fired up again. I looked and I looked and I sized myself up. It's a challenge. It's not the recipe's how to, but to get all fired up over something indefinite, isn't something I want to do alone. But looking at the pictures made me longed for it, even if it's only for slice. I need an accomplice.

So, I braved myself for a class on Opera Cake and Pavlova, something I'm quite familiar with by now. Someone took the bite and went further as to request a Sugee (semolina) cake. I didn't even blink when I clicked YES on the send button. Sugee Cake is an old, old cake recipe, which only, older generations are familiar with. Plus, it's waaayyyy too fattening.

Needless to say, I've not only took up the Opera Challenge, but I've tripled the pressure in one day, by having it as a class plus the intimidating Sugee Cake.

Pavlova! What can I say?

Buttery and nice, the coarse texture of semolina and almond made it taste rather nice. To be taken with precautions!

Singing the to the Opera tune, at last. It's a bit smudgy coz we were impatient and didn't refrigerate before we cut the first two slices. Heavenly slices, yummssss!!!

Good job Cik Mastura!! 

We had a slice of each cake we did for tea after class. Those and cups of black, thick piping hot coffee. Mas and I were like kindy kids, giggling and laughing our heads off, high from sugar and caffeine rush.

I must say, eggs and sugar, they do make me happy.

So, now that I've conquered my fear over singing to the Opera tune, I'm opening more classes on these 3 lovelies. Only for those who has done basic bakings please!!!

Sing to me at farida71@yahoo.com

Have a nice weekend!!

p/s : After posting photos on FB, Mas got loads of orders for all three cakes! Wonderful!!!

Flowers and Royal Icing

Assalamualaikum and hi,

Oh my God!! What a fun, hectic week!!! I've been busy with 2 classes recently, the 1st was a 3-day porcelain flower course which ran from Friday till Sunday. And then I continued teaching the PME Royal Icing Diploma course. I've been asked to come up with a fresh module for the Royal Icing Course, and they were ecstatic with the results. I would definitely want to improve further on the module.

PME Royal Icing is aimed at all levels i.e so Beginners need not be frightened. It's quite a breeze. Come and challenge yourself to do something fantastic!!

Wowww!! What fun! I made some new friends and also got re-acquainted with my students from PME Sugar Flowers Dec 2010 intake. 

Enjoy the photos!

Announcement!!!

PME Intensive Royal Icing Class will run from 14-18th March. 

Flower Class  Roses, hydrangea and foliages (make and arrange) 

8-10th March 2011 (Sugarflours Bangi)

23-25th March 2011 (Sugarflours Taman Desa)

Flower Class - Peony, hydrangea and foliages plus a fantasy butterfly ( make and arrange)

29-31st March 2011 (Sugarflours Bangi)

Check out www.sugarflours.com for complete schedule.

Puput, making her extensions, she sometimes stopped breathing :)

Suli, piping her extensions on her Swan Cake

Puput

Suli from Bangkok

Suli adding the lace to the extension

All that were learnt, the girls must apply on the dummies  and it came out quite beautifully.

My dummy cake. I made it while showing them how to piping using various nozzles and techniques

Roses in baskets

Puput's Swan Cake

 Suli's Swan Cake

The products of 5 days PME Intensive Royal Icing Course with me.

Suli's 2-tier, gorgeous!!

Puput's 2 tier, beautiful ain't it?

Smiles all around on the last day

Shahidatul or Puput was very proud when she finished her PME Diploma in Royal Icing

Suli (from Bangkok) was all smiles when she received her PME Diploma in Royal Icing

The girls with all their cakes deco for PME Royal Icing

Clay Flower Roses, Hydrangea and foliages arrangement 18-20th February Class

Sugar / Clay flower Class - RM850

This class was a havoc!!! It was like a reunion of school girls, what with the chatterbox and giggling and laughing...Oh My God!! Seriously...I can't stop laughing or smiling... the girls are so sporting!! I'd  like to have u gals back in my class... missing it, seriously.

Thanks to Roza Ngah, Enn Abdullah, Sue Ixora, Kak Shimah and Zaimah for coming to my class and showing serious determination to give it your best. Well done girls!!

Kak Shima's

Zaimah's

Enn, Zaimah & Sue

Kak Shimah 

Roza Ngah

Sue's

Roza's

Sue's Rose

Roza's Rose

InsyaAllah, I'll be having baking classes on the 3rd and 12th March. We'll bake and make Opera Cakes, Sugee Cakes and Pavlovas...emmm emm emmm...yummmssss!!!

In the meantime, have a gorgeous week ahead!!

I can be reached at farida71@yahoo.com.

Take care!!!!

Love,

Farida

Berry berry Pavlova

Berry berry Pavlova

Salam and hi,

Like the pavlova? I was feeling unusual energetic yesterday, prolly excited bout the prospects of new projects and classes. So I made some pavlovas... And a friend (new-found) who dropped by in the afternoon (with lunch, of course, thank you very much N!!), get to sample the delicious ( if I can say so myself, ekhemm..sorry!!), Berries Pavlova.

I've this peculiar craving for Pavlovas, even before Hajj and I've been satisfying it bit by bit, at a favorite restaurant. But I'm quite disappointed by the downhill quality and taste of their pavlovas. Plus, per slice is not cheap ok, RM14.50.

A good meringue should be a bit crusted on the outside and chewy, marshmallowy like on the inside. And it shouldn't have any grains of sugar felt on your tongue. The meringue and cream should have enough sweetness to balance the tartness of the berries...

Wow, I soooo love pavlova. Plus it's the only way to get Zaim to eat some fruits, coz he just loves the chewy meringue and the oh so lemak whip cream..

I know I said no baking class at home, but I change my mind, ahaksss!!

I'm going to have baking classes at home, but only limited to 2 persons at one time. And, I'm gonna include Pavlova in one of the series. We'll start in February, coz I'm saving January for class planning and doing some samples of cakes and sugar flowers.

So, if you're interested in a private session with me, for baking and cake decorating plus of course, Sugar Flowers, do drop me a note.

In the mean time, my 18th February class now has about 7 participants. Waaayyy over my head! They're all friends and wants to be together in a group. I'm expecting a hurricane like 'gamatness' over that 3 days in Sugarflours...

I've done the Sugarflowers course outline in the NeoOffice but I've trouble converting them into JPEG files. I want to convert them so I can upload them nicely on the blog. Well, maybe I'll convert them from the MS office, I've done it before, and it's waaayyy easy. So, sorry if the class page is still not updated. We'll see how it goes in the next 2-3 days...

In the meantime, overdosing on Pavlova is what I'm gonna do.

P/s: if you notice something funny bout the pages and layout, ignore it, coz I'm trying to re-do the blog :)

Happy Holidays!!

Salam and hi to all!!!!

Am back!! Alhamdulillah, been away from this page for almost 2 months and I missed it!!!!

Hajj was perfect! Alhamdulillah, everything was absolutely smooth sailing for us. It's quite different from Umrah definitely. I feel the effect of Hajj every single day of my life now. Now, whenever I'm faced with either a challenge or a gift from Allah, I always go back and imagine what I would do if I were given those in Makkah or Madinah. I tell you, it makes a lot of difference in your attitude towards everyday life. Alhamdulillah..

InsyaAllah I'll share some tips that can help those of you who has the intention to perform hajj later. Maybe in another post k.

I've just finish my debut in teaching PME Sugarflower Module from Dec 20-24, 2011. Alhamdulillah, it went rather smoothly...Oh my, this bunch of students, hilarious!!! We had THE most fun, after the initial 'macho moments'...hehehehe....gals, u know what I'm talking about :)

We had Cheah from Kedah, who was here for 3 weeks to complete her Masters Certificate in PME Cake Decorating courses (find out more about it from Sugarflours.com.my). Kak Shima from Terengganu, also like Cheah had completed her 3 Diplomas to earn her Masters Certificate. Congrats you 2.

We also had Azura, who also came all the way from Terengganu to do 2 PME certificates and Noha Abdullah or Ann, from Kelang...Hilarious people, hilarious!!!! I still can't over it.

Enjoy the photos of their handyworks!!

This is a sweet swet garland by Azura - very very nice!! 

A pretty garland by Kak Shima

A pretty bouquet arrangement by Azura

A trailing bouquet by Cheah...gorgeous flowers for absolute beginner..

A bouquet arrangement by Kak Shima - nice work Kak Shima!!

Flowers by Cheah and arrangement by Farida

Flowers by Noha and arrangement by Farida

Proud moment for Cheah, Noha, Azura and Kak Shima upon completion of their
PME Sugar Flower Module December 2010.

Announcement!

New classes on Life like flower will start in January 2011! Wait for the updates...

Take care!!

A wedding and 2 funerals

Sugarcookies for Faisal and Ema's Wedding 10.10.10

Drying up the icing of hundreds of cookies

Sugarcookies packed individually to be given to guests.

Salam,

It's been a while eh? Well, alhamdulillah, the calmer things are, the busier I get. Allah is the Greatest. True to His Words, nothing stays the same, except, of course, He Himself. Heart-aches are replaced with joys and vice versa. It's all part and parcel of life and we have to take it in with redha and syukur.

Innalillah.

Al-Fatihah to my Opah Chu, the youngest sister of my late Opah, who passed away on the 2nd of Syawal, at the age of 87. Also Al-Fatihah to Hubby's Grandmother, who passed away also during the blessed month of Syawal. Alhamdulillah, we managed to go and see them a week before both passed away. We managed to ask for forgiveness from both of them. May both be placed among the solihin. Amin.

To my sis-in-law, get well soon dearie. Not to worry, we'll all make du'a for you to get better, in all aspects. If you need anything, just buzz, we'll be there k.

Brother's Wedding.

Well, alhamdulillah too, Faisal, my younger brother, finally met someone to settle down. We were all so happy for him. The whole 3 day event went smoothly, alhamdulillah.

To Ema, welcome to the family.  Congratulations to the both of you!! May your life be blessed now that you've fulfilled a sunnah of Rasul Allah. We pray that you'll have a harmonious and fulfilling lives ahead.

I made about 600 pieces of these sugarcookies for their wedding last week. It took me about a week to finish them, with the help of Salina, a good friend who travelled everyday from BJ to my house. I hired her on the 2nd day coz I know I won't get any sleep if I did these all on my own. We took 2 days to prepare the dough and bake the whole 600 plus cookies. 1 day for Sal to tie up all 600 plus tiny ribbons while I decorated the cookies, and the we continued to do it together and wrapped them up in cellophane plastics. Even her kids helped. Thanks Iffah, Iman and Adam. To cute little Hannah, sorry ye auntie kidnap ibu awak...

Some of the guests enquired and wanted to order these babies for their kids weddings but I politely declined. The amount of work involved, ohhh gosh....You need to be prepared to pay me good money.

I know lady who made these and is selling it for RM14 a piece. In the US, it's USD6.50 for a wrapped piece and USD4.50 for a simple unwrapped piece. But hey, I won't charge that much, trust me.

Elaine, a friend said, she'll pay the price, because she appreciates the art in it. Well, I wish everyone feels that way, makes my life easier.

In any case, wish u all a blessed week ahead.