More things to come - a personal note from Z

It is already October 2011 and the quote on my Power Within desk calendar aptly says "Focus your strength and energy into what you do best and approach every challenge with determination". Exactly my thoughts especially in the past few months when I  start to look back at what The Cookie Cat has accomplished for the past two years.


The Cookie Cat's major business is still from orders that we received for custom cookies, cakes, cupcakes, and brownies for celebration of birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and for corporate gifts and baskets. Some of you would have noticed that I would be busy baking at the shop till late at nights (even on days when the shop is empty!). 


I would therefore like to focus on custom orders and deliver The Cookie Cat's goodies out to clients. I would also be exploring in putting out our goodies at certain places. To strengthen the focus and for more flexibility especially in terms of time, I have decided to operate the baking activities out of The Cookie Cat's home instead of the shop in Subang Jaya. Part of our home is being converted into a working cum baking studio. So The Cookie Cat will be moving out of Casa Tiara before end of this year.


That's the update that I would like to share for now - Z

Just to share an update

Time flies when you enjoy doing what you do. It's been almost two years since I started The Cookie Cat; and the support that we received from all of you was tremendous!! The Cookie Cat family can't ever thank all of you enough :)

During this period, I have been able to assess our strengths and weaknesses and explore the opportunities and potentials. I have some plans in terms of our operations going forward where I would like to focus on baking and supply of our goodies. This is what we enjoy and what we do best and this is where we want to improve and grow.

Next month is already the holy month of Ramadhan. Muslims will be fasting during the period before celebrating Hari Raya Aidilfitri at the end of the month. The Cookie Cat shop operated till 9 pm last year during Ramadhan. However for this year, operating hours at the shop will be from 12 noon till 5 pm. I will be baking more from The Cookie Cat home in Sri Hartamas. For those of you in KL, you can arrange for pick up of your goodies from Sri Hartamas too!

So, that's the end of my update for now :)

double comfort part 2

It was almost one year ago when we first introduced our The Purr... fect Sandwich. A hugh chunk of ice cream with oozing chocolate sauce, sandwiched between our warm soft cookies :)

The Purr... fect Sandwich

Besides the above sandwich, we have other double comfort goodies that we have been serving at The Cookie Cat for a while i.e. The Blondie Sundae Fun and The Brownie Sundae Fun. You can have a choice of warm blondie or brownie as the base, topped with ice cream, chocolate or strawberry syrup (chocolate syrup has always been the popular choice), and crushed cookies :) These are absolutely yummy and a treat that you should not miss!

The Blondie Sundae Fun

The Brownie Sundae Fun

the lucky draw winners!

We were quite excited about doing the lucky draw winners the old-fashioned way. Pen, paper, scissors, messy handwriting, and some papercuts.

As we mentioned earlier, everyone who Liked the draw doubled their chances of winning.

And there goes all the names into the cup.

Of course Z the matriarch had the honours. She had to take a break from icing some cupcakes to choose a piece of paper at random.

Elli Suraya Rozlee was the first name she picked!

Strangely dissatisfied with only granting one winner to the lucky draw, we suddenly decided to draw TWO more names to make it a Top 3. This means we've tripled our prizes! And the official winners list of our very first birthday lucky draw are:

1. Elli Suraya Rozlee — a hot meal set of your choice for two
2. Lainie Yeoh — a whole pan of blondies
3. Roshidah Abdul A'ala — a whole pan of brownies

Congratulations! Thank you for being fans of our Facebook and part of our first birthday celebration :) We'll be waiting for your call to make arrangements for your lucky draw prize of choice!

Today we are a year old! We couldn't have asked for a better first year; new friends, old ones, a cozy shop with hardly any complications, people who've written about us and talked to us, and especially people who've welcomed us into their lives and stomachs. People like you.

So from now till November 21, 2010, we're rewarding you with tea or coffee for only RM1 whenever you decide to drop by and have our cookies, cupcakes, brownies or blondies (all of which have gained quite a reputation in just a year).

And if you've liked us on Facebook, even better! We want you to join our Lucky Draw. It only takes just one comment from you; tell us which you'd like most:

A. a dozen cupcakes (butter/orange/choc)
B. whole pan of EITHER brownies OR blondies (mmm)
C. 15 oversized soft cookies of your choice
D. a home-cooked hot meal set for 2 (see Daily Hot Meals on our Page)

One comment later and you've entered our Lucky Draw! 1 entry per Facebook fan only (but we'll double your chances if you Like the contest) The draw also ends on November 21, 2010, so click your way to our Facebook wall and answer the easiest multiple choice question ever.

PS: While you're there on Facebook, why not dig up any photos you've taken of your Cookie Cat experience (in our shop, at home, or an event) and share them in our Fan Photos section? We're looking for photos to put on our wall, and we'd love it if yours was up there with the rest of them.

Thank you to KLUE for a little blurb in their September 2010 issue (#143) we just managed to uncover. We love the issue! So many other familiar faces in it too (like our lovely ice-cream making friends The Last Polka). If the print's too hard to read, click on the picture to see its full size!

We'll be closed from Tuesday, 7 September until Wednesday, 15 September for Aidilfitri celebrations. Already the shop is starting to look sleepier over the weekend. We've stopped baking cupcakes, so there'll only be cookies, brownies, blondies, sandwiches and hot meals in the shop till we're open again. Why the winding down? It's not that we've been slacking. Instead, our Raya orders have been overwhelming and deserve most of our attention. We wouldn't want anyone to be celebrating Aidilfitri with delayed cookie jars! It's been crazy keeping up with things. In fact, people are even taking our brownies and cookies on flights to Tanzania, Riyadh, Pakistan, and Houston Texas to share with their loved ones!

Today's surprise was a customer coming in to pick up her order, but decided on a whim to pick up the ENTIRE pan instead. So now we're baking more cream cheese brownies, and while waiting, we're getting back to work with these mountains of cookies. 

new (and possibly better!) directions to The Cookie Cat

We've had to give our fair share of directions over the phone to people trying to find us. Not that we don't like the phone calls, but over the months we feel we could probably give better directions to get here now than before. So here is a NEW visual companion to all those phone calls we've received:

If you use these photos to get here, tell us! We always appreciate feedback (and panicked phone calls).

our spaghetti bolognese

We've had a few people asking us for photos of our hot meals. Here's what we had today (Sunday) at the shop, spaghetti bolognese. The highlight of this hot meal is the really yummy beef sauce; it has just a hint of fire. We figured this demand for photos was just a great excuse as any for us to eat some ourselves...

Finally! A long-time favourite, shot for the first time. 

Thank you to our customers who came in to break fast with us at the cafe today!

double comfort part 1

When you need something to perk you up, nothing is more comforting than ice-cream or cookies. To have both would be one of the greatest pleasures! With that, we proudly introduce our new sandwich: The Purr-fect Sandwich! It's our very own chewy cookies sandwiching a huge chunk of ice-cream, molded together with yummy gooey chocolate sauce! YUM.

How has your Mothers Day been?

We've been baking brownies, icing red velvet cupcakes, and also giving away these sets of treats to the five lucky winners of the BFM SMS contest. They were mostly male winners excited to give the cupcakes and cookies to their mothers, wives, and wives/mothers.

Speaking of wives, mothers, and wives/mothers; families of all kinds trickled into our shop today. We honestly can't remember if there were ever so many children in The Cookie Cat before. It was a lot of fun watching them choose what they wanted to eat! Enjoy the photos and have a great week.

PS: Spot Spongebob!

Thank you Aris Mohlis— one of our BFM contest winners— for The Cookie Cat's very first thank-you card! We've stuck it on our wall, and can't wait to put up more in the future. Have a great week everyone. Our shop closes in an hour. If you get the Monday blues tomorrow, you know where to find us!

- L.

These photos were taken last Sunday. Regulars and familiar faces showed up with novels, laptops, work talk, new friends, and even knitting. It was so chill, definitely one of our most exciting weekends.

May 1 is tomorrow, so happy Labour Day to all our friends and customers! Thank you for showing us lots of love & letting us love you back. We've gotten unbelievably far on just word-of-mouth alone, and we really feel that all our labour would have been pointless without you.

- L.

another blog mention!

We're so delayed, we found yet another awesome blog post about us from January, thanks to Fatin Raihanna!

She also took such lovely photos of the shop (and our old business card). Sorry it took us so long to find your post and thank you for making our day.

All photos taken by Fatin, click here to visit her blog. If you know anyone who's written about us, pretty please share us a link!

The Cookie Cat will be at the MAP Art Festival!

You coming too?


Thanks to MapKL for inviting us! RSVP here

Man, we haven't set up booths since the days before our shop. Long-time customers will remember our days in Mont Kiara & especially Amcorp Mall (a rather amusing time for us; we were just starting up & had to learn really fast). To those procrastinating about visiting us in Subang Jaya, this crazy weekend off Jalan Duta should be perfect!

The festival & new arts space promises to be exciting (see what's going on here). In fact, we're completely convinced you will need a sugar rush to keep you going through the day, so come find us for cupcakes, brownies, blondies (like brownies, but with peanut butter & white chocolate), & oversized soft cookies— yummy yet affordable as always!

We're still planning which cupcake flavours to stock. So far we're leaning towards:

• classic butter
• classic chocolate
• orange
• red velvet (sour cream icing)
• cappuccino (cream cheese icing)

What do you think? 

Just so you know; our cosy bake shop in Subang Jaya stays open over the weekend as usual.

our first blog mention

we think! Thank you peachdrug. We may have more phone clients, walk-ins, and twitters than actual blog posts written about us. I think this might be the first one we've found so far. Any others we might have missed?

"I am doing this out of sincerity & real lovin." - peachdrug

and we at The Cookie Cat sincerely appreciate it. thank you!

our Twitter promotion!

Followers of our Twitter account will be pleased to know that they are entitled to our very first set deal of

• a cup of coffee or fresh fruit juice (orange, watermelon, apple)
• a cupcake (butter, chocolate, or orange)
• a chocolate chip chewy cookie

for only RM8! You'll be saving RM2, and all our followers (new or old) can redeem this as many times as they like before the new year rolls in. So follow us if you haven't yet, and if you've been lurking, now's the time to come in and give us your twitter username at the counter!

This offer ends 31st December 2009.

our chocolate chip chewy cookie is thiiiiiis big...

for only RM1.50. True story!

wednesday experiment: potato day

we tried making our own fries on wednesday from scratch, with different herbs / spices. we also tried baked potato with cheese. they tasted good, but we still have a lot to work on before adding it to the menu permanently, if at all.

chewy chocolate chip cookie dough

chewy chocolate chip cookies were a new addition in conjunction with the shop opening, and somehow became a daily hit. they go for RM1.50 each. we need to refill the cookie jar almost every day now, and since the cookies are so big, children have to use both hands to hold one while eating. (they love it)