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Sunday, 27 February 2011

Six tiers wedding cake

[The wedding cake in front of the main table settings]

This is one of our dream wedding cakes that we made for our baby brother's wedding in November 2010. We received many feed back for this wedding cake. In our opinion, Kluang folks are not ready to accept changes! Can you imagine there were people who actually thought that the cake has too many flowers and therefore that's not nice! Karma has it that a month later during that person's turn to host a wedding the roses we ordered turned out to be very small and the wedding cake looks a bit off. Moral of the story is never talk bad about other people's dream or inventions!
This wedding cake consists of two cakes (15" and 13") and four dummies actually; and used at least 10 dozens of fresh red roses (more if possible). This wedding cake will cost more than RM700 in Kluang but the price will depend on your choice of flowers.
Why is it so expensive? It uses more than 1 kg of liquid glucose, 2kg of flour, 3 dozens of egg, 4 kg of butter, 5kg of icing sugar, 10 dozens of fresh roses (RM15/dozen) and takes more than 12 hours to make! Well, any of you thought of having one like this but the cost is equal or twice the price of your wedding dress? One of the solution is to make your own cake!
What have we done to the wedding cake? We cut and gave it to our guests!

[My brother and I cut the wedding cake and serve our guests with our very own chocolate butter cake]

Well, wedding cakes are for the host to share with the guests. In the western countries, the wedding cakes will be cut and serve to the guests and even pack as a gift to the guest. The top tier will be kept in the freezer for the couple to enjoy during their first wedding anniversary!

Jujucupcakes hopes that young couples will keep this in mind and share their wedding cakes (no matter the size of cake) with the families and guests!

We would like to thank our beloved nieces - Aini Khairiah, Amirah Shafiqah and others (too many to remember) for their help in making our dream comes true. Your turns will come and together we'll realize your dream!

Below are some pictures of our baby brother's wedding reception in our house in Taman Bersatu, Kluang.

Sunday, 30 January 2011

The story behind my brother's 'Hantaran' cake

This cake is not that easy to make you know! We went through a lot of unfortunate events to finish this cake. The story is like this...

12.11.2010, Friday 8:15 a.m.
My brother, eldest sister and husband, my eldest male cousin - Abg Abu and son, my uncle and aunt and another close cousin depart from Kluang, Johor to Pekan, Pahang for my brother's solemnization ceremony after Friday prayer. While I, after finishing a wedding cake for a friend has to undergo haemodialysis for 3 and 1/2 hr before I can join my family in Pekan and the best part was we haven't finish decorating the Hantaran cake and 'sirih junjung'!

12.11.2010, Friday 12:00 p.m.
I came back from haemodialysis centre and get ready for my journey to Pekan. My sis has to catch up some sleep since she slept only around 3 hrs that night and has to drive for another 4 hrs after that. She prayed and had her lunch around 1:30 p.m. and we (my sis, a cousin and I) depart from Kluang at about 2:30 pm.
During the journey I asked my sis, "have you brought the pink flowers we bought in Bake With Yen?" My sis said, "Hah! What's that for?" and there goes our plan to make our life easier! So, when we were in Pekan, we have to find some tools to make fondant flowers for the Hantaran cake!

12.11.2010, Friday 6:30 p.m.
We arrived in Pekan, went straight to the bride's a.k.a. 'new sister-in-law' for wedding dress fitting.We ordered a new wedding dress for her, ok! We sent our cousin to the homestay my brother rent for the night and my brother and sis-in-law directed us to the hotel my sis-in-law has booked for us. The homestay was already full and they can make without another two in the house, so we opt to stay somewhere else. The hotel turned out to be 'The Chief's Guest House", it is very near to the palace, quite old but it is clean and well kept, very near to the town most importantly! We exploerd the town that night and went to Mydin to buy cookie cutter to make flowers, some sponge and some food to eat for early breakfast tomorrow. We had dinner and my sis went to bed straight away after we went back to the hotel! While I, on the other hand had slept during the journey and started to ensemble the 'sirih junjung' until 12:00 a.m.

13.11.2010, Saturday 5:00 a.m.
My sis woke me up but I told my sis, I slept around 12 last night and asked her to soften the sugar paste. After finishing the task, my sis made some coffee and woke me up. We have to make do with whatever we had at the time and try to create some flowers. I managed to make small roses, ribbons and cut flowers using the cookie cutters. We had to on the air cond to dry the flowers. We managed to finish it by 8:30 a.m.

Our working table a.k.a. dressing table!

13.11.2010 Saturday, 8:30 a.m.
My sis opened the cake box and found this!

Apparently the cake was cold when we covered it back home and it's quite warm throughout the 4-hour journey to Pekan, Pahang. The fondant layer was stretched and air bubbles were formed in the middle of the fondant layer and butter cream icing layer. I asked my sis to close it and asked her to go to the morning market to buy some breakfast for me. I managed to scrapped the torn layer and patch it back to the cake.
By the time my sis came back to the hotel, I have managed to paint the flowers. We had another problem, we had no royal icing to paste the flowers and ribbons on the cake. So, I asked my sis to dilute the sugar paste in hot water to make edible glue. We only managed to ensemble the cake around 11:00 a.m. and our siblings were calling us to come over and finish up the 'hantaran' so that the wedding procession can start around 12:30.

To cut a long story short, my brother finally sat on the dais around 2:30p.m. and we went depart back to Johor around 4:30 pm. Although we went through a lot of difficulties but we enjoyed our stay in Pekan. We love the old well kept room in the woody villa of the Chief's Guest House and not to forget the chandelier in our hotel's room!

White wedding cake

This cake was ordered by Hanee for her wedding on 11 Dec 2010. She has also ordered another hantaran cake (the one with a lot of pink roses) and 2000 pcs of cupcakes as door gifts. Her mother, Cikgu Hamidah, promised to pick up the hantaran cake around 11 a.m. on Friday but due to miss understanding and unfortunate events, my sis has to send the cake to her house in Desa Harmoni.
We thought of assembling the above cake before going to her house on Saturday but when my sis went to her house on Friday, we changed our plan! Her house is situated on the hilly side of Desa Harmoni, we have to go through at least two sharp slope before reaching her house. I asked two of my assistant to come with us and carry the cake to her house.
When we were assembling the cake, there was one Auntie kept asking us, "Dik, tak de bunga merah ke, riben merah ke? Tak berserilah!" ("Sis, can you put some red flowers or ribbons? The cake look so dull!"). My sis - the PR at the time just said "Pengantin yg nak mcm ni! Nanti pengantinnya marah!" ("the bride is the one who asked for this kind of cake! We dare not go against her wish!"). In a small town as Kluang, Johor, a white themed wedding or wedding cake is unheard of especially in Malay community. This is our second white wedding cake actually. The first one was ordered by a Chinese friend who had to assemble the cake herself since we have to attend our brother's wedding in Pekan, Pahang.

Sunday, 9 January 2011

New Year Wedding Rush

This wedding cake and cupcakes set was ordered by Kak Ina of Tudung Saji Restaurant for his brother's wedding. The tiers were not that straight. Please don't rush us next time ya!

These sugar cookies (above) and mini cake (below) were ordered by Leyana of Tmn Emas for her engagement.

This peach coloured cake was ordered by Hafizah of Kg. Abdul Rahman Yassin for her wedding on the 7 Jan.

Monday, 13 December 2010

Turqoise and gold themed wedding cakes

This wedding cake and cupcakes set was ordered by Zam of Taman Kluang Barat. He had also ordered 1500 pcs of muffins for his wedding. We would like to thank Zam for giving us a chance to prove ourselves!

This cake and cupcakes set was ordered by Yatie Crafts, Tmn Fajar, Jln Mersing, Kluang. We met the father of the groom who ordered this set and we offered him to set up the wedding cake since his house is just a few kilometers away from Yatie Crafts. We would like to thank En. Tahar of Kg. Tengah, Kluang for his order.

White and pink wedding theme

This wedding cake was ordered by Myra of Tmn Sri Paya. She requested for 3 tiers cake with pink roses and white daisies. Since the table looked so bare, we put the left over daisies around the cake, and now more customers requested for this decoration!

Sunday, 12 December 2010

It's the wedding season! Part 2: New Hantaran cupcake and cake designs

This cake was ordered by Hanee of Desa Harmoni for her 'hantaran'. The original design is from madaboutcake.blogspot. Hanee gave us the picture and ask us to make exactly like the top tier, and this was the result!

This cake and cupcakes set was ordered by Iqbal of Kg. Sri Lambak. He emailed us the design and told us what he wants actually. So, this is the results!

It's the wedding season! Part 1: Hantaran cupcake and cake

This cake was ordered by Yatee of Kg. Dato' Abd. Rahman Yassin, Kluang. She baked the cake and sent us the cake to be decorated. The original colour is supposed to be purple but she changed the theme a few days before the wedding, so you can see that the colour of the flowers were not that harmonious. I just hoped that Yatee is satisfied with the cake!

This cupcake set was also ordered by Yatee. She took this design from Cupalicious website and asked us to changed the colour and design.

This cake and cupcakes set were made especially for our brother, Khalifah for his 'hantaran'. Consists of one 7" fondant cake and 10 pieces of cupcakes. We love pastel colours, so this is the reseults. The price for this set is around RM 130 and above.

There is a very interesting story behind this cupcake set. Originally, the cupcake is bought from KL/Serdang actually, topped with American frosting and the design was just awful to be displayed as 'hantaran'. The owner approached us and asked us to alter and make the necessary changes to the cupcakes. After aroud 3 hours work, this is the result!

Saturday, 30 October 2010

Green coloured wedding cake

Hand made white roses

Four tiers green coloured theme wedding cake. Consist of ONE 11" cake, 57 cupcakes and one 7" cake dummy.

Baby Full Moon Set

Pooh Cake

This Pooh cake was ordered by Kak Ina of Tudung Saji Restaurant for her youngest son's birthday!

Monday, 13 September 2010

Aidillfitri Order

Our first cupcake hantaran order after Ramadan! This hantaran set is for Juliana from Felda Bukit Tongkat. She contacted us two-three weeks before Raya because she needed it on the third of Syawal!

This fondant cake and cupcake set is for Pn. Rozniza from Tmn Sri Tengah. Her husband contacted us a week before Raya and requested the red roses cake for her wife's birthday! Wah!!! So.... romantic!

This cake is for my friend's daughter's birthday! She requested for a two tier cake with ladybirds (her daughter's wish!) and also gerbera (mommy's wish!), so this is the results...

Thanks to all my customers! Jujucupcakes team wishes you a blessed Hari Raya Aidilfitri!