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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!

Spongebob party for a princess... or a belated Mother's Day write up

I've known the mother for a while, a lovely petite lady whom some thought to be only in her teens :)  I'm not sure how many miscarriages that she had gone through in trying to conceive a child. But after several attempts, a beautiful baby girl was born. She was aptly named Shya Putri (where "Putri" means Princess). After all the mother had gone through, lovely Putri is a miracle baby...and I feel so proud to do this birthday cake in celebration of her first birthday recently :) - Z

This is a 2 kg chocolate cake with chocolate icing and decorated with edible images of Spongebob and friends. From the photos that mommy subsequently put up for us to see, the whole party was themed in yellow and brown Spongebob decorations :)

Mommy was worried that the cake would not be enough for the guests. So she requested for some mini cupcakes as well. These are lemon mini cupcakes in Spongebob yellow and brown (chocolate icing) theme colours of course.

Mother's Day Promotions

Mother's Day is just another month away. We will be having some promotions so that you can share our goodies to celebrate that special day with your loved ones. The promotions will be done through The Cookie Cat's page on Facebook. Effective 18 April 2011 until 30 April 2011, for certain updates that we put up on Facebook, the first few persons who make comments to the update will be entitled to buy our goodies at a certain discount. The number of persons, the type of goodies and the amount of discount would be mentioned during the update. With that entitlement, you can e-mail us to confirm your order and date of pick-up.  Last date for pick up of orders will be on Mother's Day i.e. 8 May 2011.

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. 

count the cats!

A custom birthday cake order from a customer for her friend's birthday. She told us that her friend loves cats and the colour purple. This is what we came up with:

Yes, purple cats running on and around a rich butter cake. And Kaka is a nickname, of course!

Also, a regular customer of ours (vegetarian, loves our french toast) decided to mix it up a little a few days ago on her latest visit. She ordered thank-you cupcakes for her veterinarian, who went to great lengths to treat her cat. And so, here we have again coincidentally enough, MORE cats just a few days apart. We couldn't have made this up even if we wanted to (except the yummy stuff)!

But every day's a surprise here. It's one of the billions of reasons why we love what we do.

celebrate life

Two sons ordered these cupcakes for their mother, who spent some time this year battling cancer. Like many others, she attended the Relay for Life event organised by National Cancer Society Malaysia over the weekend, and they wanted to surprise her with a few of our treats. We hope she loves them.

L. dropped by to check out the event too! It was manic. The heavy rain in Bukit Jalil definitely did not stop anyone from having fun. The cupcakes were decorated on the fly; had we known purple and yellow were the colours of the day (purple shirts for survivors, yellow for everyone else), we might have reconsidered our cupcake colour scheme. But then again it was a last-minute call, and they were for a mother, not for the event. 

For those who've been having trouble making their way to Subang Jaya to check out our little bake shop, we might have a few solutions in the works. We'll update you soonest!

cream cheese brownies

We're having a little taste-testing today for something you could be seeing on the menu really soon: cream cheese brownies. The taste-testing verdict? AWESOME. We're working on the pricing now, and hopefully will start selling it really soon. We already know a bunch of hungry boys eager to try these out.


Here's a webcam photo taken a few minutes ago, now floating around on Twitter:

Thanks Lainie! Here's a fun fact; she designed our cat logo update and therefore our shop sign.


(Lainie: so worth it, free brownies!)

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.

quick updates

• Like the new site design? It's a Mother's Day surprise from me & T, and I'm also working on a complete menu + pricing section coming soon! The main objective of this new design is to showcase larger images, and getting rid of that sempit feeling our old design eventually had. I guess The Cookie Cat is growing up :)
  
  
• Mark your calendars for May 5. The Cookie Cat will be interviewed by our favourite radio station, BFM 89.9 in their Open For Business segment! And by "The Cookie Cat" I mean Queen Z, of course. I might be tagging along too, but not sure yet.
  
  
• We've been brainstorming on several contests and promo ideas for you to have fun with! We'll probably unleash the first one sometime after the BFM interview.

- 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!

overdue photos of happy customers

a small sampling, of course :)

a belated birthday surprise

This guy was not our customer this time around, but two of his friends were! Since they knew he was a long time Cookie Cat fan and there were cupcakes in stock, they bought three butter & three chocolate cupcakes to surprise him with over dinner! 

PS: He was surprised.