Baking and Decorating Tips (Part 2)

How to start a cake business :

- 6 months
Give it a try for 6 months dulu (or a year). Sebab kadang-kadang rasa macam best nak drop everything that you do and just bake je dari rumah buat business. Try it first for 6 months. Then only you will know suka atau tak.


- Jangan berkira
Promote to friends and family dulu. This is the time untuk jangan berkira duit untuk bahan. Buat je banyak-banyak and bagi orang rasa. Kalau ada kenduri tu, bawa cake biar ramai dapat rasa.


- Equipment
Guna dulu apa yang ada. Jangan terus beli tools or equipment yang mahal-mahal. Beli just the basic dulu. To these days pun, I'm still buying cake tools yang actually dari dulu boleh je beli. But saja nak tengok dulu whether do I really need it or not. Kalau rasa worth it baru beli.


- Google
Buat research on recipes or how to do. Memang internet ni tak ada la perfect sangat sebab free. Tapi banyak juga boleh membantu.


- Teacher
If rasa memang dah suka in what you do in baking or decorating or both, do take classes. Kena belajar dengan orang yang lagi pro. Tak kisah la short courses or Diploma ke apa. Tak kisah kat bakery shops yang buat classes tu, or kat College ke. Asalkan belajar. Lagi ramai teachers / instructors, lagi banyak method we will know to make just one thing. And with that, kita tau which method suits best for us.


- Practice
Practice makes perfect. It sure does. Kalau tengah free time, tak ada orang order, practice juga. Kalau sampai dua bulan tak ada orang order, every week kena make sure practice.






InsyaAllah with all these, lagi senang nak buat business.

8 Glasses per Day?

Semalam baru discover how to minum air banyak in a day without the feeling of forcing it. And the answer is simple......Plan it..!!



One tall big glass - 300 ml. Total of 10 glasses per day. 3 liters per day.

Schedule below tak termasuk my daily tea intake. Just a small mug every morning. Tapi ada orang cakap, any liquid kira include as water intake. But I don't want to include kan yang mana ada sugar contain.

But I realized that this is a benefit of me being a cake decorator. Working kat area where there are hot ovens. Even at decorating table pun pakai kipas je. Banyak gerak sana-sini. Nak pergi toilet pun senang, rumah sendiri. I know it's hard untuk orang yang kerja kat office, duduk in an aircond room. Memang rasa nak gi toilet je kan kalau minum air banyak macam ni.


This is my schedule :

before 300ml

8am - Breakfast

after 300ml

 

11am 300ml

 

before 300ml

1pm - Lunch

after 300ml

 

3pm 300ml

 

4pm 300ml

 

before 300ml

6pm - Dinner

after 300ml

 

10pm 300ml

 

 

 

 

Before and after tu terpulang la nak tunggu half an hour ke tak. Elok nya tunggu. But typical me kadang minum je terus lepas makan.

 

 

 

 

Bila ikut ni, automatically I'll drink 10 glasses per day. And even kadang-kadang I will drink extra at 10 am and 11 pm (Kalau tidur lagi lambat, lagi banyak minum).

 

Dulu before buat this schedule, macam terlupa nak minum air banyak. I can drink only 5 glasses dari pagi sampai dinner. Lepas dinner baru nak minum lagi 5 glasses, memang susah sangat la.

 

 

 

I can't remember bila start minum air banyak. But seriously, I can see the power of minum air banyak. Lose weight tak la kot for me sebab memang kuat makan. Muahahaha. But my skin, memang beza sangat kalau minum air sikit and minum air banyak. One thing that I hate about terlupa nak minum air banyak, next day mesti migraine.

 



My Charms

(Saja blur kan muka sebab nak tunjuk gelang je)

I have a charm bracelet yang kumpul since 2010. This year baru the bracelet penuh. The bracelet itself is a gift from my dad for my 21st birthday. Charms yang beli ada macam-macam brand. Mostly Thomas Sabo. Ada juga Folli Follie, Fossil and few others. But the bracelet bukan Thomas Sabo. Yang tu extra branded. Ngehehehe. Charms pun ada yang beli, ada yang my loved ones bagi.


So since dah penuh, I made fondant cupcakes based on the charms. My birthday 3rd August. Tapi sebab puasa busy sangat, so I made after raya. And then busy lagi nak update blog pasal tu. So I chose today. My second 'birthday'. I was born Awal Muharram. Hee.

 

Dekat Sugar and Vanilla's blog, I uploaded pictures of the cupcakes. Each cupcakes tu ikut design charms. Yang kat bawah ni just pictures of meaning about the charms. 

 

-Handbag
I'm a hugeeee fan of handbag. Started collecting with LeSportsac, roxy and those brands yang agak affordable. I used to have like 20 handbags. Sekarang dah kurang sikit membeli sebab dah besar macam ni mata asyik nampak yang tak mampu aje. Benci tau. Still kumpul handbags tapi dah kurang beli.
Picture above, my very first LeSportSac. Gambar taken in 2009 masa kurus sikit. The only picture yang nampak bag tu.

-Teddy bear
This charm given by my other half. He gave me together dengan a huge bear. Like 3/4 of my size. Love the charm, love the bear, and definitely love him. Hee.
Picture above, last year masa brother's wedding.

-Lipstick
The final charm I bought. Because of the new passion for make up. And also because I joined a make up class.

-Butterfly
The charm I bought using my first sale. I think I got RM200 (but the charm tak sampai harga tu pun) So I bought this charm sebab lawa. And then, because of that I asked my bestfriend, Eryn and my boyfriend, Aman to design a logo for PrettySugar (first name I chose for my business).

 

-Cake
Because I graduated from my academy with Diploma of Patisserie.
Picture above, sugar showpiece I did as a beginner with my friend. The last time my friend told me that this showpiece is still standing after a year plus. When team yang lain punya dah jatuh within a week after buat ni. Super proud.

-Girl doll
My cousin, Izzah gave this to me. Gave her one for her Pandora as a symbol of BFF. She gave one back with the same meaning.






-21
Mama bought this for me on my birthday. Tapi actually I chose this one. Meaning charm ni tak ada kaitan with my mom la. 21 because I started lots of things at the age of 21. Started my ACCA, my business and my decorating short courses.
Tak tau nak letak picture apa based on this.

-Guitar
Time tu my birthday dekat dengan raya. So bila my brother bagi sampul duit raya, I opened it and jerit, "10 ringgit jeeeee?". Yes, memang sungguh tak bersyukur kat situ. But then tengok kat dalam ada the small guitar charm. Aww. Because we have the same taste for music.
Picture above, before his nikah. Yang tu cake untuk hantaran. KakTen kat tepi tu.






-Camera
Birthday present + upah buat cookies untuk my brother's wedding door gift. My dad bought the DSLR for me. And plus, I collect cameras. Dah rosak or not, I just keep it nanti boleh tunjuk kat anak cucu. So banyak meaning juga la for this charm.
Malas nak tangkap gambar cameras.






-Sunglasses
Got my car. Birthday gift from Abah. Saja tak nak beli charm yang straight forward, so I bought sunglasses charm. Sebab kalau drive pakai cermin mata hitam kan....kan.
Malas nak tangkap gambar kereta.

-Heart shape
Abah belikan ni together with the bracelet. I love you, daddy..!!

-Teapot
I bought this sempena birthday Mama tapi letak kat my bracelet. Haha. My mom collects teapot. Penuh rumah ni dengan teapots. Meaning charm ni, I love you, mummy..!!

Charm from my sister mana?? Dia memang. Ngehehehe. Bought a Pandora charm yang butterfly friendship tu. Two for the price of one. So kitorang ada charm sama-sama, sweet gituww. Eh tapi tu Yayah yang beliii. Ahahahaha but the truth KakTen banyak belanja macam-macam.












Apa yang I notice from writing this......banyak nya hadiah Abah bagi. Cuba kira berapa banyak. Hee.


Now my charm bracelet ni dah penuh. It's about life and people that I love. I'm moving on to Pandora. But yang to specially for my career journey. It will take time untuk penuh. Nanti if one day dah kahwin beli lagi satu untuk love life pula. Amboiii dah plan.

For me, charm bracelet yang macam with hooks ni lagi cantik untuk pakai. Lagi nampak fun and classy. Tapi susah nak basuh pinggan (buat kerja) kalau pakai ni. Kalau Pandora lagi tahan lasak sikit. It all depends what you prefer la kan. I have both, I prefer both. I love bracelet. Hee.




Everytime Awal Muharram mesti teringat kat Nyai (my grandmother). Sebab pernah mengada I said, "Nyai, esok birthday Yayah". Being a grandmother yang ingat semua birthday her cucu-cucu, she looked puzzled. And so I said lagi, "Yayah kan lahir Awal Muharram". The next day, she gave me RM50 and a box of Ferrero Rocher chocolate. It was just once she gave me for my second 'birthday'. But I'll remember it forever. I miss her.