My Sweet Little Munchkin

I would like to introduce my little sweetmunchkin..... Aishah Binti Mohamad sufian,safely delivered on 19-12-2011 @ 9.44am at Colombia Asia ,Puchong....

Alhamdullilah I had been blessed with super fast easy delivery.....Syukur. Before that ,once again Syukur ke Hadrat Illahi I had an easy and healthy pregnancy. The baby grew right on schedule, my pee sticks were always the right colour, the placenta was in a great anterior position, my blood pressure was normal throughout, Alhamdulillah. Sure, I had morning sickness, swelling, sciatic pain, terrible backache… but we(me & the baby) were healthy. That’s all that mattered.

This is Aishah on the 6th days....has been diagnosed with Neonatal Jaundice.... and once again me & my sweet munchkin has been addmitted at Colombia Asia Hospital for 2 days....

Aishah on the 11th days......my son has been with my mother at Kampung and me Insyallah will back to Perlis for the confinement on 1st Jan 2012....

So ,just to inform...Cake2u officially closed for a couple of months....

Gumpaste recipe

As Salam & Hi to everyone.....
In my previous post I've promised to share the gumpaste recipe & here it is....
before that I sourced the recipe from here ... Thanks to Kak Min from Baking Project...

Ingredients

500 g icing sugar

1 tablespoon gum tragacanth

1 1/2 tablespoon cold water

2 teaspoon powdered gelatine

2 teaspoon liquid glucose

1 tablespoon shortening

1 egg white

Method :

Mix the icing sugar with the gum trag, and sieve. Put in a heavy duty mixer bowl.

Sprinkle the gelatine over the water, and wait until it becomes spongy. Then double boil until it turns into liquid again. Add the glucose, stir until it turns liquid too, then add in the shortening . Continue stirring until all are melted.

Remove from heat. Pour into the icing sugar, and mix in the egg white. Beat until the paste becomes white and elastic. Remove the gumpaste, put in an airtight container and let it rest for at least 12 hours before using.

Have been using this recipe since last year.....

  

Sometimes when I'm so lazy I will opted to another version of gumpaste or modelling paste which is I'll mix the fondant with the CMC powder or Gum Tragacanth...simple & easy but the drying process takes time and if there's raining season the flowers made of this simple gumpaste tends to wilt eventhough the previous day the flowers already dried....

But the above recipe is worth to try because no matter the weather is , Insyaallah your flowers will not wilted at all(based on my experience)......

Rose that I did using the above recipe & it completely dried within 24 hrs....inspired by Peggy Porshen's style...but my rose still far from perfect as her , need more practice...

The size of  petal rose cutter that I've been using is 3.5cm & 4.5 cm....

This is how I shape & dry the petals.....by the way you can view the step by step to make Peggy Porshen's style roses in her 2nd book ,  Romantic Cakes ....

Or you can simply view the tutorial from Cake Journal ....  

Ok till then.....

Maz & Khoir

As Salam & Hi to all
Made these cuppies for my ERL buddy Maz, the wedding receptions was held yesterday at Banting.....congratulations Maz & Khoir....Semoga berbahagia hingga ke akhir hayat ..Amin

I'm so frustrated with the fondant ....did you see that the fondant looks so shining?yup...lembik ...nak buat macam mana kalau musim hujan  memang akan experience kes macam nie...but the flowers that I made with gumpaste(nanti I share the gumpaste recipe ya) turns out really okay, not wilted at all.... hmm... nasib baik Maz faham....

I think maybe this will be my last project before I deliver..he..he..ya ka, now I'm in 36 weeks of my pregnancy....hopefully everything will be okay ..Insyallah...