Royal Icing Class, Business Coaching Preview & Program

Salam & hi,

Been quite a while I know..finally found a chance to sit down & download photos and write something. I do have a class tomorrow, a private class with Pn Fatimah doing sugarflowers..but hey I could actually see cobwebs streaming down the page already..hahaha...

Anyways, yesterday we had a group of Bakers over for a Preview of a very special program. I had been wanting to go to something like this but couldn't find it anywhere. One day I just chanced upon it and was frustrated as their timing for next workshop clashes with some of my pre-scheduled things. So, after some pondering, I've decided that it should be something done at TDT. I want to TDT to be the base for the cluster of Homebakers who see themselves as Successful Entrepreneurs in the next few years. We want to gather like minded and positive business owners who wants to design their business to be successful.

We had a Preview of Business Coaching Program yesterday and the special thing about it is it'll be designed especially for bakers, homebakers and cake decorating onlines/offline shop owners. After listening to the preview, I knew it's something that we new business owners need. And I'm sure you need it too, though you might not realise it yet.

So, for those who missed yesterday's Preview, we're gonna have another one on the 21st May, from 10am-12pm at The Dessert Table, Mutiara Damansara. Please come and find out how the Program can benefit you. The Preview, btw, is FREE. Register with me ok...

Here are some info on the Preview :

SMALL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION COACHING PROGRAM (SBTP)

ActionCOACH Subang Jaya proudly invites all Bakers and other business owners to our newly launched program - SBTP.

This exclusive “Business Coaching & Mentoring Program” is designed for New & Start-Up Business, learning together under the guidance of Action Business Coaches.

Learning and sharing will be done in an open environment where selected topics related to small & medium-sized business are presented and discussed.

The participants, throughout the program, will be exposed to the basics and understanding of creating a “Commercial & Profitable Business That Works without The Owner”.

The program would help to enhance new/small business owner’ entrepreneurial, leadership and business skills through proven & time testes ActionCO business building approach & systems.

 Outline of our Coaching plan:

• Business & Self Mastery Workshop
• Financial & Marketing Mastery Workshop (2 separate sessions)
• 1-2-1 Coaching session – 4 sessions
• 5-months Business Action Plan Workshop

You definitely should come find out how we can help you build a more profitable business through organized planning and organization.

                                            

We invite you to come our FREE special preview session which will be conducted by Mr Asri Jusoh (Business Coach and Franchisee of ActionCOACH) as follows:           

Date:              21^stMay 2012 (Monday)

Time:              09.30 - Registration 

            10.00am - Preview starts

            12.00am - Q & A

Venue:           The Dessert Table                       

12A-1 Jln PJU 7/16A Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya.

                 

RSVP         : to Cik Hamiedah/ Pn Farida

HP              : 017 – 3510 355 / 013-3554399

E-mail        : the_dessert_table@hotmail.com

                          farida71@yahoo.com

Seats are limited and will be on first-come, first-served basis.

SEE YOU THERE!!

Zai Osman

Business & Communications Manager

ActionCOACH Subang Jaya

The World's #1 Business Coaching Firm

Coaching Your Business to Success

Tel: (+6) 03 80110447 | Fax: (+6) 03-56353720 |

Cell: (+6) 012-3789449 | email: zaiosman16@gmail.com |

Okay, please call us okay. You dont want to miss this awesome opportunity.

And then....

I had a fun time doing royal icing workshop with 3 awesome ladies last week...have a look at their work, and our too! You can join our next workshop which will be in June or order some of this for your wedding...

Kak Fatimah's Gazebo Cake.

Hasbuna's Cake, I like it very much.

Mimi's Cake..again, very brave with color, something I still have to venture into...

Simpler Butterfly Cake from Pn Fatimah..

I absolutely love doing this Eddie Spence inspired Gazebo. Of course ours are a long way to go getting it done the way he did. One of my wish list is Eddie Spence's Masterclass.

Mimi of Melting Bites from Penang - she's brave with colors. Dare to be different. If you're in Penang and want to order awesome & delicious cakes, check her website out! Totally rocks the islanders!

Hasbuna's Royal Icing Cake - awesome! nice color too!

We deviate from the original theme a bit and applied some painting techniques with Elderflower painting inspired by Ms Natasha Collin's Cake. Wanted to go to her class this May but the date clashed with another class I've registered. But it was very sweet of her to have saved the seat for me for 2 weeks. Instead I went to Lina Cuppies mom's cake painting class. I still want to go to Ms Collins' class someday....

TDT's Royal Icing Cake - added frame on top of cake to give some height and a story line. Perfect for a wedding cake too. If you'd like to have this cake design for your wedding, please give us a call :-)

Baked this and didn't regret it at all! Absolutely delicious..friends were helping themselves out like mad!

Dabbling a bit in food styling. I'm a newbie :-) 

We still have few more spots for Chef Fatima's class left. Please hurry and call me if you want to join this class which I must emphasize YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THIS CLASS!

Right then, I'll be MIA for few weeks in May to attend some awesome courses, meet Alan Dunn again,  John Quoy Hoi and who knows who else... I'll be going to Telford for BSG's International Exhibition to check out the trade show... lots of dem shows to attend...

I'll let you in on it next few weeks...

In the mean time...please call for all the classes above ok...

Love,

Farida Ismail

When it rains, it fell, rather heavily.

Salam & hi,

Wow! What a hectic weekend! I had this order for wedding cake & cupcakes and it was a rainy week. And of course, we bakers (especially those macarons bakers) and decorators all worried sick when there's too heavy a rain going on. 

We've done everything since Friday, flowers, baking and all and had assembled them on Saturday to be picked up on Sunday. I had a one-on-one on Royal Icing with Kak Fatimah but it was quite easy, so I relaxed.

Going for that vintage look

Came in early Sunday, still groggy and half awaked, while waiting for Hubbs to buy breakfast, I thought of printing some notes. I lazily glanced through the box where we put the cuppies in...OMG! I couldn't believe what I saw! I had to touch them and ewwhhh! The hydrangeas were almost blobs of messy sticky ewwhhh! Not serving that to customers!

Ok! Time to panic! We had in our anticipations of a good time ahead, finished the remaining red velvet cuppies...arrgghhh! I have to bake another round before K Timah comes in and was about to dial her, when she knocked on our front door....aduhaiiiiii.....she was almost an hour early, ohh kak timah ku sayang!

Dabbling in Food Styling & Photography

Roped her in to help me bake and make another round of hydrangeas. While we preparing the batter for chocolate cake, I was feeling that something was amiss. It wasn't the same recipe but I kept quiet. And when they finally baked, I tasted and alamak! wasn't the recipe I was going for!! This time I felt like smacking myself but had to control la in front of Kak Timah... Called Miedah and asked her to come by in between her classes to bake me another round... aduhai aduhaiiii...it was one of those days when everything just didn't want to go right. Even the royal icing were acting up. Humidity was to high in my shop that day!

Hydrangea Cupcakes.

But, everything turned out fine. The cakes were picked up Monday morning before we had to run to the airport to send Hubby off.

Turn out they wed on monday morning, who would've thought that?

Love,
Farida Ismail

Chef Amer, Chef Fatima Ghani and whole lotta stuff!

Salam and hi,

 Chef Amer was at The Dessert Table last week for a private class on Commercial Cookies on the 10th April. Yup! Cookies people. Ramadhan is coming soon followed by Eid ul Fitr or Hari Raya Aidil Fitri. So cookie making business women are busy looking for new hit recipes to use for this coming festive season. I uploaded some photos from our recent class.  As usual the class was a havoc!

Looking intently at our notes. Chef told us we should draw the cookie shapes on the top side of our recipe note. hahahaha... because nobody did and were soon asking him, Chef, bentuk ni biskut apa? LOL! Dah kena leter...

Choco Oaties, addictive! A definite hit with kids and adults alike!

Haippp!! Hot from the oven... MasyaAllah..if only you could smell the delicious aroma from TDT..

Chef's assistant yg sangat rajin tuh..

Can't remember the name but absolutely delicious

Hahahaha...lost somewhere in those commotion..so taking a breather on the mixer..

Hot from the oven

Tandanya sedap coz kids don't lie...

Next month, on 5-6th May, I've invited Chef Amer again to be with us. This time for basic class in Cake Baking & Cake Decorating 5-6 May. Details are provided in the poster below. Make sure you don't miss this class as it's gonna be loaded with delicious cakes and fun stuff. And Chef Amer is so NOT stingy with tips and lessons learnt. Call me soon as you read this  coz places are limited.  

AND my mentor Chef Fatimah Ghani from Melbourne is going to drop by TDT on her way to London. And she's offering to do a 2-Day Intensive workshop with us..wohohohohoho! Definitely worth your money people!! Sign -up if you know what's good for you. She is one of the very few people I turn to for advise..And she gave me loads of good advise ok. I won't be doing what I'm doing now without encouragement from her.. So if you're looking for an advise on directions in your baking life, talk to her (Chef, don't marah me if your phone rang off the hook after this heheh).

Chef Fatimah was Malaysia's first cake decorator and was already doing sugarpaste decorating when others were still dablling in buttercream in the 80s and I was still wiping runny nose heheh...She appeared in several TV shows and magazine during those days. She also won several awards in Cake Decorating on the International scene, mainly in Australia, UK and Malaysia. I knew her when I went for Basic Cake Deco course at Taylor's College few years back and was soon begging her for private class. After 3 months of non-stop calls and emails, she relented :-) and so my serious journey into baking & decorating began. After that she left Taylors College and went to join her kids in Melbourne and taught pastries and cakes at a local Uni there. Late last year, December I think, she was summoned by the King of Swaziland to His Royal Palace to teach the Chefs there how to make delicious cakes and pastries, fit for a King (no pun intended).

Call me soon as you see this too! To good a chance to be missed. 013-3554399 today!

Chef Fatima's competition entry

Also, our Food Styling & Food Photography Class on the 28th April, we still have some seats left. Please do not let this wonderful class go by. Make the right decisions and come to all our wonderful class. Call me now, 013-355 4399.

Till I see you again, be good.

Love,
Farida Ismail

Introducing New Desserts from The Dessert Table

Salam and hi,

We had some time off from classes before they all start again next week, so we, Miedah and I, thought we'd better churn out some new recipes to offer our affluent clients :-)

And we're so glad we did...the results are awesome! And taste is even more awesome! And we had a field day dabbling in Food Styling and Food Photography.

So, introducing our new desserts ORANGE POPPYSEED & CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE AND GOOEY CHOCOLATE STACKS...my oh my..talk about over indulgence...

Plus I found some imported Madagascar Vanillas to try.. one of them is the Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Paste..awesomeness! I'm going to stick to this vanilla or the other two for all our products insyaAllah..

Totally awesome vanilla paste.

Our new delicious Orange Poppyseed & Chocolate Fudge Cake...available for orders.

Hoping to improve in food styling & food photography

A slice of freshness, which went straight into our mouths..and the caramelized orange made it even better!

Our brand new Gooey Chocolate Stack. Available through our Dessert Series Class.

Through The Dessert Table brand, we aspire to provide our affluent clients with superior high quality products, be it Cakes, Desserts, Pastries..both through our classes or through our Orders. 

We like Valrhona or Barry Cacao or Callebaut Chocolate and we like butter and not margerine. We use chocolates and cocoa powder that have 50% cocoa and above. No compund for us and our clients. We like Farmhouse milk and won't use anything less. And what we like, we want to let our clients have them too..

So if you find that our cakes, desserts or pastries are a bit on the premium price side, it's because we use premium ingredients in all our products, whether in our classes or in the orders we receive. We don't ever want to compromise on the quality of our products so rest assured, you will always get the best from us.

So, if you want to tantalize your taste buds with something absolutely delicious, come to our class or order from us, and find out for yourselves....

Tomorrow, it's White Chocolate & Raspberry Cheesecake...oolalala....

Love,

Farida Ismail

Fondant for Beginner

Salam and Hi,

MasyaAllah, what a month! Alhamdulillah March 2012 had been a very busy month. I hope and pray that April will be even more. 

On Monday we had a private Dessert Series Class where we baked Fudgy Brownies and Pavlova with Ms Ling. I forgot to snap any pix coz after class we conitnued with prep work for next day class. 

And the final class we had for March was the Basic Fondant Class for Beginners. We had Ms Ling (again :), thanks!), Pn Nina and Ms Winnie Leong, towkey D'Clay and the class was havoc! OMG! 

Plenty of laughter and teasing throughout the class and the results are like below: All of them went for different designs...havoc!

Anyways, through this basic class, we take you through the basic of baking a good butter cake and delicious icing. Everyone left the class with more knowledge on each ingredients involved in baking a good and delicious butter cake. When I first learnt the basics with Chef Fatima, she walked me through each ingredients and how they react to treatments and to one another. So I felt it's important also for those who attends my class to know the same thing.

Through this class, beginners will also learnt how to manipulate fondants to cover cakes and to make simple decorations.

Ms Ling's Fondant Cake

Winnie of d'Clay's Fondant Cake

Nina's Fondant Cake

I hope they had enjoyed the class and will continue baking. Good luck to all of you!

Next 2 weeks Class updates:


5th April - Dessert Series (RM540 private class, RM450 group class)
 ** Fudgy Brownies, Passionate Chocolate Cake (NEW!!) and Blackforest Cake.

Our new Dessert Cake - The Decadence Passionate Chocolate Cake. Don't miss this Class!!

7th April - Delicious Cupcakes (RM450 private class, RM450 group class)
** Red Velvet Cupcakes, Luscious Lemon Cupcakes and Moist Chocolate Cupcakes - gorgeous for any parties! Don't miss it! Send to us you daughters and their cousins or best friends and we'll teach them how to make this delicious cuppies. No worries for you next time you have any gatherings.

perfectly baked.

And for the 2nd week of April 2012


9th April - BASIC BAKING SERIES (RM540 private class, RM450 group class)
** Orange & poppy seed butter cake, Sponge Cake & Classic New York Cheesecake.


10th April - COMMERCIAL COOKIES WITH THE FAMOUS CHOCOLATIER CHEF AMER
(RM320 PERPERSON)
Dont miss this class! We won't have it again till next year! And we want only 10 pax for this class. So register Today! 013-3554399


11 & 12 April - Basic Sugar Flower Class (RM380 perperson)
You'll learn how to make gorgeous roses and filler flowers and foliage and of course, we'll guide you on the basic arrangement of a bouquet. Call today 013-3554399.

Basic Sugar flower Class

I can smell the spring.. :-). I'm looking forward to another adventure in spring :-).

Till then! Take care!

Love,
Farida Ismail
the_dessert_table@hotmail.com
013-3554399