Second week of April

Juju Cupcakes has donated 100 pcs of cupcakes for blood donors during the Rotary Club Blood Donation Campaign held on 10 April 2011 at Kluang Parade. Above: Nurses of Kluang Rotary Haemodialysis Centre who are on duty during the campaign.

This cake was ordered by Molly Oh for 5 Malay Royal Army Regiment Mess Night.

This cake was ordered by Mak Yam of Tmn Kluang Jaya for her husband's birthday. It's an 7" x 7" cake topped with fresh cream.

Third Week of April

These cupcakes sets were ordered by Ain of Kahang Barat for her sister's engagement ceremony.

First week of April

This 'hantaran' cupcakes set was ordered by Ain of Kahang Barat for her friend's engagement.

This 'hantaran' cupcakes set was ordered by Aetul of Tmn Sri Kluang for her engagement.

Blue and white theme wedding cake

This order came about 2 weeks before the wedding ceremony. The wedding theme was golden yellow but the bride's mother dreamed of a dark blue wedding cake actually. To make the story short, the couple has to find another bakery to bake their wedding cake because her sponsor back off due to unfortunate circumstances. As you can see the table was big but the cake was small, but nonetheless there was a wedding cake to cut!

Black and White Wedding Cake

We have just received a niece-in-law from Medan recently. Our nephew, Epi (for family) or Din (for friends),wed Febria Nora from Medan in JB and the wedding reception was held in Simpang Renggam on 26 Feb 2011. The theme was black and white but we were quite surprise to find blue flowers and wedding cake were given to this couple.
Well, we decided to present this couple with a wedding cake as a gift. Our cousin, Normah was so excited about it. We have to use my late Mom's round table which is half way to crumble (even my cousin's round table which was made around the same time has disappeared from her family's home) and my cousin has to rummage through her old room to find the table cloth.

We arrived around 1:00 pm and there was no wedding cake and the dish for the 'pengantin' has just arrived. So we decided to set the cake which was not yet assemble due to the distant and geographical factors and quickly help our cousins to set the table!

All of us were so eager to see the cake cut and served! The cake consists of 11", 8" and 5" choc fudge cakes and around 40 pieces of chocolate cupcakes (S and XS size). We made some search and decided to combine a few designs to suit the theme and the culture of the area! When the first wedding

When the first wedding cake was cut, a friend of my nephew actually ask us to keep the cake for the 'pengantin', we were quite surprise! We told him that the wedding cake was abundant and we should share the cake with the guests. No wonder, we have attended a lot of wedding and saw that some couples actually kept the wedding cakes and made the family of the wife or husband long to taste the cake or 'kempunan'! Please, whoever read this article spread the wisdom around!

[The top tier of the cake - a big black ribbon and white roses with gray based fondant cake]

The colour of the cakes were actually white, light gray, dark gray and black, unfortunately the light gray coloured fondant turned purplish to greenish some time after being exposed to sunlight. So, next time no more light gray! We thought of making a big black bow on top of the cake but due to the area where we were going, we decided to decorate the cake with some flowers!

Almost all the guests who were present during the cake cutting ceremony was given a piece of the wedding cake and everyone was quite full and happy to eat more cake that day!
To my nephew and wife, we hope you'll lead a happy, blessed and long marriage like your parents!

Chinese New Year Wedding Rush continues

This cupcake set was ordered by the future 'groom'. He started to contact us a month before his engagement actually and only finalize the order 2 weeks before the engagement day.

This wedding cake and cupcakes set was ordered by Siti Fatimah of Kg. Melayu and the 'bersanding' ceremony was held in Kg. Melayu Hall, Kluang. The set contains 11" and 5" cake and 60 pieces of cupcakes.

2nd Day of Chinese New Year

The hectic continued on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. We actually forgot to photograph one of our wedding cake the day before! We were really in a hurry!

This cake was ordered by my cousin, Normah, a cook in the army camp here for her husband's niece engagement. She had to bake her own cake because she ordered on Monday of the same week. So, her husband baked steamed fruit cake and we just have to decorate the cake.

This cupcakes set was also ordered by my cousin, Normah.

These cakes (above and Power Puff's Blossom cake) were ordered by Elly Nadira of Sri Lalang for her brother's engagement and her daughter's b.irthday

1st day of Chinese Year

On the first day of Chinese New Year this year we were so busy that we didn't have any time to eat! We managed to finish two wedding cakes, two hantaran cakes and one birthday cake. We worked from 5:00 a.m. till 12:00 a.m.
We managed to forget the broom for one day and prepared all the messy things the day before. Hopefully our order in the future will be as full as the Chinese New Year wedding rush! Amen!

This two tiers blueberry cake was ordered by Yoges for her brother's engagement ceremony.

This fresh cream chocolate moist cake was ordered by Mas for her mother's birthday surprise party.

This cake and cupcake set was also ordered by Mas for her engagement ceremony.

February Baby!

This year we decided to bake all of our cousins a birthday cake for each one of them. So, last February, two of our cousins celebrated their 53rd and 45th birthday. We baked lemon cake for Kak Imah and blueberry cake for Kak Mas.

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.

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.

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.

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!