Wedding cupcakes

The theme is green and white for these "hantaran" or wedding cupcakes. I had put calla lillies on these Classic Butter cupcakes and piped white dots royal icing on the green fondant too.

More bakes for Christmas

Here are more cakes and cookies that I baked for this Christmas. 

Classic Butter Cake

The cake below is a one kg Classic Butter cake frosted with butter cream icing. The customer just let me do any Christmas themed design on the cake. I always love red and green (err..The Cookie Cat's colours :)). So, here's the outcome..

Steamed Fruit Cake

We have always been selling our steamed fruit cakes as they are i.e. without any icing. This is because the cakes are just lovely as they are, rich and moist :) For this Christmas, a customer has requested that we cover the cake with fondant and decorate it with poinsettia. 

The steamed fruit cake before being iced.

I use honey to coat the cake before covering it with fondant because I don't have apricot jam (I have to read up on this as this is my first time using fondant to cover a fruit cake).

The steamed fruit cake after being decorated. I use royal icing to do the Christmas wreath and pionsettias. I had written Merry Christmas on it but forgot to take a photo of one with the greeting. 

Gingerbread Cookies


What is Christmas without the all time favourite Gingerbread man cookies? The cookies are good on their own but look lovely with the royal icing decoration.

Turn the cookies around and decorate them as reindeer cookies :)

Here are some Santa cookies too. They are so cute ya :)

Well, it is so much fun baking these!!

Merry Christmas!

We would like to wish a very Merry Christmas to all our Christian friends and customers. Enjoy your joyous occasion with your loved ones! Here are more of the bakes that we did for this Christmas celebrations.

This is a one kg Classic Butter cake with buttercream icing and decorated with Christmas themed edible images (at the sides of the cake) and non-edible Christmas toppers (reindeer, Santa Claus, snowman, and trees :))

Classic butter cupcakes to add to the celebration ..

Have a safe but fun celebration ya :)

It's Christmas time again :)

Gosh, time really flies this year. It's been a year of changes at The Cookie Cat, with the relocation of business and all. But I'm now more focused in doing what I love to do and that's baking! With the tremendous support from all of you, I've been as busy as ever during this time of year.

I just finished baking and decorating these Christmas themed chocolate chip cookies today. A customer ordered them for a Christmas party at her office.

We have also recently packed some goodies for another office Christmas party. Each goodies pack has our best selling chocolate fudge brownies, red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing, and mocha chunk cookies. The goodies were distributed to the staff at their Christmas dinner.

I'm baking butter cakes now where some will be decorated with Christmas themes. I will post the photos at the next update. Hmmm...I'll be writing more nowadays as moving back home gives me that peace of mind and environment where I can write.

by hand

Dear Helen

Someone called today asking for a surprise delivery of assorted treats, and texted a thank you note to go along with it. We thought the recipient would appreciate some good old handwritten love— and we were right!

We're a Juice Best of 2011 Nominee!

What a pleasant surprise: we've been nominated for Best Hipster Hangout in Juice Magazine's Best of 2011! To be honest, we're not quite sure we'll win at all, but it doesn't even matter— having been to almost all the places on this list (and meeting the people who run them), this little 2 year old space in Subang Jaya is well proud to be in such great company! Thank you Juice for the nomination! Click on the image to cast your vote and take the rest of the poll. 

Now that we've closed up shop to move back home, we wonder if this means The Cookie Cat At Home will be a hipster hangout next ;)


L

11.11.11

It's our birthday yet again! The Cookie Cat turns 2 years old today— which means closing up our little bake shop in Subang Jaya and moving back home for a new beginning. My mother Z will be baking from home and she's pretty excited about it. Just in case you're curious:

Q: Why close the shop? Is business bad? 

A: Not at all, we're grateful to be regularly blessed with awesome customers and familiar faces :) It's simply because we want to move back home, that's all.

Q: Why move back home? 

A: Well for starters, we've been home less and less. I suppose after two years in a small shop, we do get homesick. If we're at home more I'd imagine some of the things we could do would be to

• chill out on the couch
• play with kittens in the back garden
• push furniture around
• maybe have friends over
• experiment with more recipes
• open up a flea market on weekends once in awhile
• make delivery trips according to custom orders
• make delivery trips according to areas, eg. Putrajaya
• make delivery trips to offices (would you like it if we packed lunch for you & colleagues?)
• look into supplying baked goodies for other places

— all in between baking for you and everyone else. By going back to our roots, the possibilities seem endless, and that's what we find most exciting.

Q: Where is home?

A: We live in Sri Hartamas— right between the Damansara suburbs and the KL city center— so we personally feel this makes us far more accessible for pick-ups and deliveries compared to Subang Jaya.

Q: Does this mean I can't buy just one cookie anymore? 

A: Of course you can! Even if Z is busy with custom orders, chances are we'll still have a few jars of fresh cookies in our kitchen just for people like you :) Just text, email or call TheCookieCat to ask what she has.


Lots of love & looking forward,

L.