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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!

Dora Birthday Cakes

This is our Classic Butter cake that is decorated with edible image of Dora the Explorer. I have piped butter cream icing to cover the cake and for other deco add on.

Hope you had a great birthday celebration at your play school little one!

Here is another Dora cake that I had done. This one is a rainbow cake with Lemony Swiss Meringue Buttercream filling for sweet Eva's birthday :-

This third cake is also our Classic Butter cake, for 3 year old Naily's birthday :)

Our most popular goodies - Chocolate Fudge Brownies

Over the years our chocolate fudge brownies has grown to be the most popular goodies among our customers. The brownies has also grown more sophisticated where it gets dressed and decorated for certain occasions :)

The chocolate fudge brownies before going into the oven...full of chocolate chip cookies.

Once baked and cut, you can see how moist the brownies is...yums!

The brownies is good as a birthday "cake". You can also just say it with our chocolate fudge brownies.

We can also put your image (edible icing) on the brownies

or fully cover it as a birthday "cake"

These are cut brownies, decorated as wedding brownies "hantaran".

These are decorated with edible icing and given out as corporate gifts for new year.

I baked these heart shaped brownies as gifts for the cancer kids during our day out with MAKNA kids

This huge chocolate fudge brownies comprised of three of our regular sized brownies, covered in chocolate icing and edible image .. for a farewell party.

Oh, by the way, we can also do a variation to this brownies. Instead of chocolate chips, we can add M&M ..so you'll have M&M chocolate fudge brownies!

Birthday cakes for Moms

I love baking cakes for mothers. They are so special and should not be celebrated only on Mother's Day. Somehow, I always want to do a bit extra when someone asks me to bake for his or her mom.

I met this wonderful boy during my last vacation. He has recently requested me to bake a cake for his mom. Today is her birthday. All he mentioned was "I think cream or soft colour would be fine". So I bake a heart shaped cake and decorated it blue, white, and little specks of yellow. This is a one kg butter cake.

Here's another cake that I have baked quite a while back but didn't get the chance to upload before. This cake is for a young mother. So it's the husband who has ordered for her birthday. Hence, the 'butter fingers' hehe :) This is also a one kg butter cake.

Then there is this cake where a mother has requested for her daughter who is also a mother. I can feel the love in the message as I was decorating this butter cake. Just love the love!

Here's a birthday cake for a mother who is also a grandmother. I did the butterflies out of fondant and dust them lightly with silver just to make them glossy. Another one kg butter cake.

One more cake that I would like to include in this update. One young talented girl has requested me to do a birthday cake for her cool mom who loves yoga. So, here's a yoga cake! This is our one kg Rich chocolate cake.

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.