Kuih Makmur

I am baking 'kuih makmur' this morning. It's a traditional kuih or cookies that is normally served during Hari Raya. 'Makmur' in English is prosperous. These cookies are indeed rich as they are made from ghee and butter. I had baked some before Hari Raya as requested by my niece and sister. More people had asked but I didn't bake for them in view of the tedious process and that I had decided not to spend a lot of time on baking during Ramadhan.

I love kuih makmur and it is not easy to find good ones in the market. So, the best is to make them yourselves. For the best taste, use pure ghee and 100% butter. You will love these melt in your mouth kuih makmur. Just make sure that you keep your mouth close as you eat them ... enjoy, be calm and prosperous :)

For the filling :- 

400 gm of peanuts (grind them coarsely), 100 gm of caster sugar, and 130 gm of peanut butter (melted). Mix and it should look like the first photo on the top left. I then measure out the fillings in half teaspoonfuls, press them out. Actually I do not fill up to the brim of the spoon. When pressed, the filling is just about 1/4 teaspoon.This is to make sure that you have the same amount of fillings for each makmur.

For the batter :- 

250 gm of pure ghee, 250 gm of pure butter, 1 tsp sugar, pinch of salt (add to flour), 2 egg yolks, 1 egg white, and 850 gm of flour. Mix the butter, ghee, sugar until smooth. Add eggs, and then flour (use a little bit more if dough is sticky). Measure out the dough in 1.5 teaspoonfuls. Make each one into balls. Then flatten and put in the peanut filling. Shape it again in round balls or oval ones or leave like shapes ... depending on how 'rajin' you are :) 

Bake at 160C for 20 minutes. Leave to cool and then roll each cookie in icing sugar. Place each one in paper liners and serve!

Friendship cupcakes

Getting out of a relationship is never easy especially if the relationship has lasted for so long. You'll feel a sense of loss as the person whom you share and do all the things with, is no longer there by your side. Suddenly, there's no one for you to talk to, to laugh with, to share jokes with.

Support and love from friends and family during this period would ease the pain. The greatest blessing of all is for you to eventually come out loving yourself more, recognising the strength that you have within and acknowledging that you're still beautiful inside and out.

These girl power cupcakes and cookie went out to cheer someone and to celebrate that blessing :)

Peanut cookies

I've baked some peanut cookies today for some orders tomorrow. These cookies are a favorite during any festivity. Hari Raya is just a couple of months away...time flies! But then, if you're a peanut lover like I am, you don't need to wait for Hari Raya to enjoy these cookies. They're simply great for tea or as snacks .. cos they'll just melt in your mouth..yums!

The Cookie Cat's peanut cookies are packed in jars. They're ideal as gifts anytime!

Wedding cakes, cupcakes, and cookies

Wedding cakes

School holidays are round the corner and I just did another wedding cake for a hantaran. This one is for a young bride who is still studying. Her marriage is an arranged one, which I find it amazing in these days. But she is a lovely, beautiful and obedient girl. She has informed me that she wanted roses on her cake.. pink and white roses. So, I did this cake for her.

Some of the other wedding cakes and cupcakes that I have done but didn't get the chance to share in this blog.

This cake is covered with fondant and decorated with lilies.

This one is decorated with calla lilies

This is how it looks after being place on one of the hantaran trays.

Green and peach themed wedding cake

and the cupcakes to be given out as wedding favors.

Wedding cupcakes

Pink roses and green theme on these hantaran cupcakes.

Maroon and pink roses on these.. one of my favourite combination of colours.

Peach roses and cream themed hantaran cupcakes

Customer just mentioned that she wanted something pink and white and I did these orchids and hearts cupcakes :)

White and lilac daffodils cupcakes! Another favourite colour combination of mine :)

The theme for these wedding hantaran cupcakes is purple and white. But in the photo, the purple daises turn blue.

These Bride and Groom cupcakes are really cute! The icing on these are buttercream but the heart shapes are made out of fondant.

These cupcakes have carnations that are made out of buttercream

Cookies as wedding favors

These chocolate chip cookies are decorated with edible image of the bride and groom, individually sealed and boxed. They are given out as wedding favors.

These are bite sized chocolate chip cookies that are also given out as wedding favors.

Some customers prefer our regular sized chocolate chip cookies like these as wedding favors.

Football themed cakes/cupcakes/cookies (Part 4)

I realised the other day that someone had thought that I was a Manchester United (ManU) fan because I only have ManU themed cakes and cupcakes on this blog. Well, I have actually done other football clubs themed cakes, cupcakes, and cookies as well. I've just been bad in updating my blog these days.

Anyway, I'm not a fan of any football club. But I enjoy baking for their fans though :)

This Liverpool cake is a one kg rich lemon cake frosted with buttercream icing and edible image of the club logo.

Liverpool cookies. These are our "as big as your face" chocolate chip cookies for a big Liverpool fan. He loves our cream cheese brownies too. So, these were done for his birthday.

These Liverpool themed cupcakes are for Kat's birthday :)

Arsenal cake. This is a one kg rich chocolate cake for a big fan of Arsenal, of course! :)

Arsenal themed chocolate chip cookies..the regular ones and the "as big as your face" ones too.

To celebrate the birthday of a fan, we had baked this one kg Chelsea chocolate cake at the request of his friends. He was so happy that he came to thank me personally.

This one kg Arsenal classic butter cake was ordered by a wife for her husband's birthday.

ManU fans have also given us good support, requesting us to bake these chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes, and cakes for their celebrations.

ManU chocolate chip cookies!

ManU cupcakes!

We have recently baked this Rangers Football Club themed chocolate cake with cream cheese icing. The birthday boy is so happy with it!

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!!