Peony flower class promotion :)

Salam & hi,

For those looking for sugar flower class : don't miss this one ya :).. call me @ 013-3554399 or email me at mutiaradesserttable@gmail.com.

Fondant for Beginner

Salam and Hi,

MasyaAllah, what a month! Alhamdulillah March 2012 had been a very busy month. I hope and pray that April will be even more. 

On Monday we had a private Dessert Series Class where we baked Fudgy Brownies and Pavlova with Ms Ling. I forgot to snap any pix coz after class we conitnued with prep work for next day class. 

And the final class we had for March was the Basic Fondant Class for Beginners. We had Ms Ling (again :), thanks!), Pn Nina and Ms Winnie Leong, towkey D'Clay and the class was havoc! OMG! 

Plenty of laughter and teasing throughout the class and the results are like below: All of them went for different designs...havoc!

Anyways, through this basic class, we take you through the basic of baking a good butter cake and delicious icing. Everyone left the class with more knowledge on each ingredients involved in baking a good and delicious butter cake. When I first learnt the basics with Chef Fatima, she walked me through each ingredients and how they react to treatments and to one another. So I felt it's important also for those who attends my class to know the same thing.

Through this class, beginners will also learnt how to manipulate fondants to cover cakes and to make simple decorations.

Ms Ling's Fondant Cake

Winnie of d'Clay's Fondant Cake

Nina's Fondant Cake

I hope they had enjoyed the class and will continue baking. Good luck to all of you!

Next 2 weeks Class updates:


5th April - Dessert Series (RM540 private class, RM450 group class)
 ** Fudgy Brownies, Passionate Chocolate Cake (NEW!!) and Blackforest Cake.

Our new Dessert Cake - The Decadence Passionate Chocolate Cake. Don't miss this Class!!

7th April - Delicious Cupcakes (RM450 private class, RM450 group class)
** Red Velvet Cupcakes, Luscious Lemon Cupcakes and Moist Chocolate Cupcakes - gorgeous for any parties! Don't miss it! Send to us you daughters and their cousins or best friends and we'll teach them how to make this delicious cuppies. No worries for you next time you have any gatherings.

perfectly baked.

And for the 2nd week of April 2012


9th April - BASIC BAKING SERIES (RM540 private class, RM450 group class)
** Orange & poppy seed butter cake, Sponge Cake & Classic New York Cheesecake.


10th April - COMMERCIAL COOKIES WITH THE FAMOUS CHOCOLATIER CHEF AMER
(RM320 PERPERSON)
Dont miss this class! We won't have it again till next year! And we want only 10 pax for this class. So register Today! 013-3554399


11 & 12 April - Basic Sugar Flower Class (RM380 perperson)
You'll learn how to make gorgeous roses and filler flowers and foliage and of course, we'll guide you on the basic arrangement of a bouquet. Call today 013-3554399.

Basic Sugar flower Class

I can smell the spring.. :-). I'm looking forward to another adventure in spring :-).

Till then! Take care!

Love,
Farida Ismail
the_dessert_table@hotmail.com
013-3554399

SUGAR FLOWER CLASSES

SUGAR FLOWERS CLASSES

BASIC SUGAR FLOWER CLASS  - SUITABLE FOR BEGINNERS

Come & learn how to start making your own beautiful wired Sugar Flowers from gumpaste. You will be guided through the making of each and every petals until you get it right and then proceed to make your own gorgeous flowers for your cakes. No more stiff looking flowers for your beautiful cakes. 

ROSES, PULL BLOSSOMS & FOLIAGE

Student's Sugarflowers. Gorgeous ain't it? You can do it too.

Next class : 8-9th March 2012

Time : 10 am - 4.30 pm

Fee : RM280 for a group of 3-4 persons.

Small class for 2 persons is available. Please call to fix the date. Fee for Private class is RM380.

What you will learn :

1. Roses - 1 Full blown, 2 half roses and a few buds.

2. Rose leaves

3. Pull blossom flowers with leaves.

4. You will learn all the basics of handling gumpaste, making each petals and putting them together, wiring and taping the petals, and lastly a simple bouquet arrangement.
5. There will be no dummy cake for this class.

RAYA COOKIES DEMO WITH PN ROZITA KADER OF ITA'S DELITE.

Date : 10th March 2012

Time: 10am - 2pm

Fee : Rm200

You will be shown how to make 15 types of delicious cookies.

2 TIER CAKE WITH SUGARPASTE ROSES 

Learn Soft dusting the petals to achieve the delicate & exquisite look for your flowers. I did this flower today.

Design of this cake was inspired by a book by Ms Peggy Porschen

Class Date : 19th - 21st March 2012 (Monday - Wednesday - Flexible)

Time : 10am - 4.30pm

Fee : RM450/person. Max 3 pax only. Deposit of RM100 to be paid as confirmation.

Fee for private class : RM550/person should there be 1-2 persons only.

You will learn how to make unwired rosebuds, 1/2 rose, and full blown rose & complementary small flowers and foliage. You will also learn how to soft dust the flowers so it will look gorgeous and professional.

Dummy cakes will be included.

Participants should have some basic skills in covering dummy cakes with fondant.

Call or sms me At 013-355 4399 for details. Or you could email (preferable method) me at the_dessert_table@hotmail.com.

Tak care,
Farida Ismail
The Dessert Table

COMMERCIAL CAKES AND SUGARFLOWERS

Assalamualaikum and hi,

Alhamdulillah, all praise be to the AlMighty Allah Azzawajalla. It had definitely been a busy weekend indeed.

The Dessert Table had pleasure to host the awesome 'Commercial Cakes Workshop' on Saturday 18th Feb. Many thanks to Chef Amer for being so sporting and fun while delivering the class, his 2 assistants who tireless prepared and cleaned up throughout the class and to all the lovely participants, from all walks of life and ages. Some were even from out of town like Ipoh, Jerantut, Melaka, all came in droves seeking improvements in their existing recipe fortes. Well, we sure learnt a lot from Chef Amer, he has vast and deep knowledge in preparing cakes and chocolate, being THE Master Chocolatier in Malaysia. Great pleasure of mine to host this workshop, alhamdulillah.

Well. aptly named Commercial Cakes Workshop, we learnt all the techniques and know-how on how to make the cakes and make it commercially viable for the bakers to sell them cheap. I'm not gonna divulge too much, those who want to know will have to sign up for his next class with us... :-)

Enjoy some of the photos...

Intro session.

Dark pitted Cherry...yummmssss

Masing-masing khusyuk sambil tersenyum dengar penerangan Chef yang sangat lawaknya.

Finishing touches

Glazing the Boston Cheesecake

  

Nope, we're not fighting..heheh..tengah memarut chocolate. When Chef Amer did it, he just needed the table and his lutut, but we..heheh...sangatlah loratnya...

Chef, bila disuruh smile..sambil memukul telur...heheh..

Tadaaaa..... dah siap! Bab posing memang semua champin!

Our Chilled Oreo Cheesecake

Blackforest cheesecake. Don't mind me, am experimenting with food styling.

Blackforest Cake

Chocolate perfection. Insyaallah will upload the cut version when I get around to cutting it. So sayaang one....

Boston Cheesecake

Then on Sunday and Monday, I continued on with a Sugarflowers class with my cousin Syakella, Mimie from Melting Bites Penang and Julia, an IT Lecturer from Malacca.

Masyallah..Mimi closed shop for 2 days to come for this class and Julia, travel back and forth to Malacca for 2 days coz she has a baby and Sya had to leave her cute 1 1/2 year old Aira too. What an effort they put in to come to my class, and the results, wonderful! Beautiful sugar flowers, all handcrafted from scratch. I even threw in arrangement coz they were all so nice and so eager to learn. Thank you all for coming.

Mimi, jangan tunggu lama2, confirmkan plan kita tu cepat sikit ya...:-).   

Mimi's , nice work! Very meticulous work. Beautiful color  as well. 

I showed her how to make a simple bouquet arrangement.

Pretty.

Sya's simple but nice arrangement. She made this while catching a cold. Poor thing.

Julia's arrangement. Despite the soksek soksek, she managed to make enough flowers for me to show her  how to make the simple arrangement. Good Job Jue.

These babies are mine which I did throughout the class with them...

Pull blossoms, delicately pretty! Also mine, heheh...

So, I'm like a happy bunny having finished all the classes...alhamdulillah. To top it of I got to go attend a lecture by Mufti Ismail Musa Menk from Zimbabwe last night, having all these while listened to CDs and watching his DVDs while making flowers. We got to pray Maghrib and Isya with him as our Imam, alhamdulilah...all Praise by to The Almighty Allah, for granting my du'as. I've always wanted to attend his lecture...

I'm planning for more classes with Chef Amer, most of them will be during weekdays because he is fully booked on weekends till end of the year. Tu diaaa...

Due to overwhelming response, we are going to hold another Food Styling and Photography Session with Chef Ali, most probably in early April. I have 4 people lining up to join in the class, so if you're interested, please register early with me. We are only taking on 10 pax so that everyone is comfortable, so late inquiries and registration, next class!

Next line up of classes will include :

1. Raya cookies Demo with Pn Rozita Kader of Ita's Delight.

2. Cakes & Cake Decoration with Chef Amer - this class will be a private class of 4-5 participants. Almost full.

3. French Desserts with Chef Amer - also almost full.

4. Sugarflower Class 1 (2 days) - Roses, pull blossoms and foliage - suitable for beginners. Taking only 3 pax. RM350/person.

5. Sugarflowers Class 2 (3 days)  - Peony, foliage and butterfly - intermediate. Prerequisite - Sugar Flower Class 1. Only 3 pax.  RM450/person

6. Delicious Brownies - Fudgy and Cakey type.

7. Berry pavlova and Red Velvet Cake.

Excited? Call me at 013-355 4399 or email me (the_dessert_table@hotmail.com) the list of classes you want to join in. Dates of classes will be updated soon.

In the mean time, enjoy the rest of the week!

Love,
Farida Ismail

Basic Sugar Flower Class

Salam and Hi,

I've been getting a lot of exciting mails lately, snails and e-mails. These tickets came though snail mail yesterday. The BSG's Cake Show 2012. And I've tickets to dem shows by Alan Dunn, John Quoy Hoi, Marion Frost and Ceri DD Griffith. How exciting is that? 

But I'm still contemplating whether or not I should go...

BSG's tickets. I've got a set of 2 for entrance and dems. I don't know..I don't know.

In the meantime, I'll be having a BASIC SUGARFLOWER CLASS on the 22nd & 23rd FEB 2012, this coming week. So if anyone of you, a beginner, who'd like to learn about wired gumpaste flowers, please call me at 013-355 4399 for info and bookings okay.

BASIC SUGAR FLOWER CLASS WITH FARIDA ISMAIL

DATE : 19 & 20 FEB 2012

TIME : 10am - 4pm

COST : RM250

TOOLS : PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN SUGARFLOWER TOOLS. 

If you don't have any tools, we can help source them out for but please provide ample time for us to look for them. So let us know of that soon as you book the class.

Gumpaste, colors, cutters, wires and tapes will be supplied during class. If you would like for us to purchase Rose and leave cutters for you, please let us know, we'll do our best to get them for you.

Btw, Chef Amer's class this coming Saturday had been overbooked. I'm sorry I had to turn away some of you. We'll bring him on again later, insyaAllah, if his time permits. Coz, maaannn, he one busy Chef! In the mean time, I'm sure we're gonna have a lot of fun this coming Saturday!

I'll blog about it during the weekend, insyaAllah.

I had a blast yesterday, over coming my fear of using the BIG double decker oven. I had to really stop thinking about it and just face my fear. LOL! of course the whole shop was blurry from all that smoke that came from the oven. 1st round of baking genoise sponge - underbaked! despite having all that smoke!

2nd attempt was successful, the genoise came out just nice. Minus the smoke! Phewww!! Okay, so the class will go on..hahahahaha...kidding! I finally know how to control those BIG BUTTONs on the oven. BERJAYA!!

Have a good week ahead people!

Love, 

Farida Ismail

PME Royal Icing and Life like Sugarflowers

Salam and hi,

It's been a while kan? Maaflah kerana sibuk sikit. Nak cari masa duduk diam diam, edit gambar dan upload. Today am a bit free so here goes. Before that, Selamat menyambut Ramadhan al-Mubarak to all Muslims out there. What's the plan? For sure we're already thinking and planning of maximising our good deeds during the blessed month. May Allah make us among those who strive hard to get His blessings and make us among those who will get to meet the Lailatul Qadr. May Allah also make us among those whom will accompany the Blessed Prophet Mohammad SAW to enter Jannah, with our families. Ameen.

Well, before I continue with Royal Icing and Sugarflowers, I just want to share some gorgeous flower photos that I took during Floria 2011 in Putrajaya, recently.

Sea of flowers at Floria 2011...sangat menggeramkan. This is only the dunya. For sure the flowers in Jannah are more beautiful than this.

Up close and personal pink rose

Mom

Raindrops on flowers everywhere after a short drizzle

anak muda ku :)

posing depan bed of gorgeous flowers di tengahari buta @ Floria 2011 Putrajaya

Gorgeous rose, subhanallah..

PME Royal Icing Class June 2011
For this month's PME class, I had the privilege to teach these 3 awesome girls, royal icing. We had the most fun, that I actually missed them after that..ahaaakkss! It wasn't hard to teach them royal icing, but it was hard to keep a straight face while teaching. Always teasing each other, kelas yg menyakitkan perut kerana terlampau bnyk gelak. Anyways, congrats girls especially Ida and Renu for completing your Royal Icing and other PME courses as well. You girls are now Masters in Cake Decorating.

I was showing Hellen how to pipe the lace design correctly.

While we were so riuh rendah in the class, we managed to get the whole lesson done on time. I'll let the photos speak. 

Hellen's gazebo cake, nice

Ida's gazebo

Renu's gazebo cake. Cun!

Embroidery lesson

Basketweave and roses lesson

Sebahagian kek Ida.. cantikkan? You can do it too! Come and join us in PME courses and have fun learning while getting and learning loads from Wati Bakar and me.

Hellen dengan kek graduasinya, tahniah Hellen!

Happy sangat si Ida. She completed all 3 PME Diplomas and now holds a Masters in Cake Decorating. Tahniah Ida!!

Funny and very efficient and hardworking Renu. Congrats on your Masters in Cake Decorating as well!! Proud of you.

Lunch on the last day. We had such a great time during class. OMG! I don't mind having this group all over again.  Sweet Hellen from Bali, cheeky Renu and the quiet but wise Ida. I enjoyed the 5 days tremendously gals!!

Private Sugarflower class with Liza from KL
This week I had 2 classes at home. Sugarflowers and cupcakes but I totally forgot to snap pix of the cupcake class as time was so short.

Liza had some background doing sugarflowers which she said she had learnt from teacher youtube. :)). But knowing that she need to have a real person guide her, she approached Wati and was redirected to me. Liza told me she had always followed my blog, so we clicked instantly. Lagipun kita dua orang x-student MRSM. She MRSM Jasin, me MRSM Kuantan. So of course, something else in common.

It was easy to teach her since she had already tried her hands in sugarflowers. All I had to do was refine some of the techniques and here they are, gorgeous!!

Yellow Rose and daun puding in the background

Pink Rose, berries and lily by Liza

Am taking a break from class this Ramadhan. And insyaallah will continue after Raya. If you want to book a class either PME or Sugarflower or anything else, please let me know early so we can schedule them nicely. You can also order just bouquets of Sugarflowers for your cakes. Message me for price.

So, have a good and fruitful Ramadhan. May Allah accept all our deeds and help us improve our ibadah. May He also make us steadfast in our deen, ameen.

Love,
Farida Ismail
farida71@yahoo.com