2 Exciting Classes by Muniroh's Bakery - Cake Decorating and Cake Baking

So we will be having two classes in the coming week:

On the 8th of March will be Cake Decorating Class and it will focus mainly on decorating, and no baking is required! We will provide the cakes :)

Learn how to decorate lovely and pretty cake like Muniroh’s Bakery  (Suitable for beginners and intermediates):

- Everyone will get a prepared cake (no baking required), and learn how to cut, level and crumb the cake.

- Learn to make cream cheese frosting  and Swiss meringue buttercream and use them to decorate the cake.

- Learn the basic skills and techniques to make swirl roses, star, daisies, hydrangea, daffodil, ruffles and more

What you will get:

- Hands on, learn all important techniques on cake decorating and bring back your own personal decorated cake.

- Homemade lunch and snacks will be provided

What you need to bring:

- Apron and hair net/scarf/ bandana so that your hair will not fall off

- Pen for note taking

- Your own cake turntable

Fee: RM 350 per person (deposit RM 100) *8 people max. Prioritize to those who make the earliest payment*

Date: 8^th March 2014

Time: 9 am - 5 pm

Location: No 30, Jalan Tambatan 19/16 Seksyen 19, Shah Alam

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Another one on the 22nd March 2014 is our Cake Baking Class which will be focusing more on baking! very minimal decorating technique will be taught as the class is very pack with fun activity! :D

As requested by many, we will be having Muniroh's Bakery baking class on the 22^nd March 2014

Cake Baking Class (Suitable for beginners and intermediates)

Learn how to make our BESTSELLER cakes:

- Red Velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

- Devil’s Food cake with homemade Nutella spread, covered with Belgium chocolate ganache.

- Salted caramel cake covered with caramel cream cheese frosting and homemade caramel sauce.

- Bonus Recipe: Magnolia Bakery inspired vanilla cake, vanilla frosting and Nutella frosting

What you will learn:

- Bake three types of cakes in an efficient way to maximize your time.

- How to cut the cake and level.

- Make your own Nutella spread, chocolate ganache and caramel sauce without fail.

- Crumb cake and very basic decorating.

What you will get:

- You will be taught from A to Z with our own personal baking tips.

- Hands on, learn all important techniques and take home your own creations. This includes three cakes (not slices but the whole cakes), caramel sauce etc

- Homemade lunch, coffee, tea and snack will be provided

What you need to bring:

- Apron and hair net/scarf/ bandana so that your hair will not fall off

- Pen for note taking

Fee: RM 350 per person (deposit RM 100) *6 people max. Prioritize to those who make the earliest payment*

Date: 22^nd March 2014

Time: 9 am - 5 pm

Location: No 30, Jalan Tambatan 19/16 Seksyen 19, Shah Alam

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First Baking Class from Muniroh's Bakery

Hubby went out to UPM for the MASUM chess team tryout. The house is quiet and it would have been a perfect day to relax and sleep the whole day, except for the fact that I have to bake lots of cakes. While waiting for the brownies to be done, a lot of fresh memory from yesterday's class flying around in my head. I can still remember the conversation that I had with them, their expressions, and my emotion.

I always like teaching. Have been teaching lab in UPM for a while and now I have the opportunity to conduct my own class. I want to make something different, where people can gain lots of knowledge and yet express their creativity freely.

Moritz told me to write out a tentative schedule a day before the class. I was reluctant, the idea of typing out nice schedule using Microsoft Word turned me off as my body needed to rest. He told me it is for me and not for the students as it will be a useful guideline so that I can plan ahead and maximize the short time that I have. It was a great idea! I scribbled my awful handwriting on a piece of paper and plan out which cake to bake first as well as the frosting and the time duration for each. 'This could work out' as I said to myself, but then again it could work for me who has the experienced in baking but I'm not sure for others.

As I was  anxiously waiting for the students to come,  I cooked simple lunch for me and the students (I made Maqlooba based on this recipe, but it doesn't turn out perfect and felt sorry to the students for that *sorry guys*). Buying food is always my last option as I am concerned of the hygiene and quality, and I want them to get a personal touch of the 'baker.' I made my famous 'Ultimate Belgian Chocolate Brownies' for snack so that I can give extras to the neighbors as well.

Ummul and Shafa were the earliest to arrive and we started off first to avoid the delay. As their red velvet cake almost finished baking, Mima and Nurul joined up and I taught them how to make red velvet cake as how I taught the first group. We started making the rest of the cakes and frostings together after that. During my busy time handling the class, my husband was helping out with the dishes. I am so grateful with his kind gesture. He lightened up the burden and I am blessed with that (thanks baby <3 ).

The whole day was filled with chatter and laughter. It was a relief that all of them were such easygoing and fun people. We met new people and learned a lot about each other. I love how we were able to get along so well despite knowing each other for less than a day.

I taught them the easiest, and simplest way to make cakes and yet produce great results. All of the ingredients are from the finest quality, and no substitute used. We make everything from scratch without depending the store bought processed goods like Nutella and caramel sauce. Just the way I do it.

I am not fancy in following long  instructions with lots of steps so I always modify things to make it simpler. I do that in the lab when I'm doing experiments, and in the kitchen when I'm cooking. Some of them were surprised with my method, and yet they were so happy looking how perfect their cakes look like. Tall and fluffy, and the most important part - Delicious!

As we were in middle of decorating cakes, one of them said 'no wonder the price of the homemade cakes are expensive, it is not easy to bake cake, and yet to decorate it,' and I was grinning listening to her. All bakers in the world would have hugged her if they had heard this - because it is true.

I gave the freedom for them to decorate the way they like it. No rules for that as I want them to use their own creativity. Besides, this class was mainly focused on baking. It is important to know how to make delicious cakes beforehand, and decorating second. For me, tasty cake is more important than how it looks like even though some people find it vice versa. If the students like to learn how to decorate, they can join my 'Decorating Class' which will be mainly focused on decorating cakes.

The timing was good, even though we overdid it a little. I can reduce the time in the next class based on my husband great suggestion and my experienced. All of us were tired in the end, and I remember this cliche ending that I usually used in Bahasa Melayu karangan (writing) in primary school - Walaupun penat, kami rasa seronok sekali (Even though we are tired, we feel very happy) ;)

Nurul, Mima, me,  Shafa and Ummul. All of them baked three cakes and bring back home all of the cakes. They also took home their homemade caramel sauce :) Thanks guys for joining, it was fun :D

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Our First Baking Class 2014

Alhamdulillah, finally we are able to conduct our first class after long awaited days. It will be on the 1st March 2014. Space is limited. 

This class is suitable for beginners and intermediates. We will provide you with high quality ingredients to make delicious cakes and frostings.

Venue will be at our home sweet home, No 30, Jalan Tambatan 19/16 Shah Alam

Email us at thewhiteboxz@gmail.com if you are interested :)

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CNY Promotion

I know this is a bit late, but hey, better late than never right. So yeah, we are having CNY promotion for our special treats, and we can deliver it nationwide via Pos Laju. PM us on our Facebook page or email us at thewhiteboxz@gmail.com for ordering. The last day to order is 2nd February 2014 :)

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Baking class questionnaire

We are planning to conduct baking classes next year. We would really appreciate it if you can fill up the form and let us know what you like to learn so we have general idea of how the classes would be. Thanks :)

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We are moving~!

Hey guys,

We are not taking any more orders until February 2014 or until we have settled down. For the record, we will move to Seksyen 19 Shah Alam, and pick-up location will be there. If you want to pick up at Serdang, we can arrange that and pick up location will be at our lab (Makmal Agroteknologi on the way to School of Graduate Studies, UPM) Tuesday to Friday during the office hour :)

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Snickers poke cake and the baker other side ;)

Yesterday was the last lab that I will be teaching for this semester. Even though it was quite fast, I have other things to do for the next coming weeks, thus I had to combine two experiments in one day. It would have been quite hectic if I haven't handled the lab before, but I have been teaching the Agriculture Biochemistry lab since 2011 plus I started doing molecular works since master. Hence, everything went smoothly (or so I think).

During the semester, I have been rewarding the students with my homemade treats to encourage them to participate in the lab. Little do they know that their lab instructor is actually a baker at night ;). Surprisingly, the method works, the students spoke more and actively engaged in the lab compared to my previous students.

As a reward for them being a great students, I made a 'Snickers' poke cake for them to celebrate on the last day of lab. The cake was pretty easy to make, and it looks more simple than the previous cakes that I have made before. There is no Snickers in the cake, the taste; however, remind me of it.

'Snickers' poke cake

The poke cake was made with chocolate cake which has been poked several times with chopstick; hence, the name came from. Homemade salted caramel sauce was poured on the cake, and the sauce went inside the cavity (owh so delicious) and it was topped with dairy whipped cream, drizzled with generous amount of pecan, shaved chocolate and caramel sauce. It was not that sweet, due to the salt. That is why I love salted caramel so much as the salt complements the sweetness of the caramel.

The thing I like about this cake is that it is simple to prepare, and yet tastes soooo good! It is quite handy if you have a last minute party or potluck to attend and want to bring something delicious and easy to make ;)

The students enjoyed it :) too bad I had a small piece of it and didn't have the chance to have an extra bite.

Me with some of the students in the lab. There are male students too, but I guessed they were too shy to take pictures with the beauties ;)

Anyway, teaching the lab was fun, it reminds me why I'm doing it at the first place. I love teaching, and I love to be part of the students. Too bad I don't remember their names; nevertheless, I will love to have a quick chat with them if I bump into them at the Faculty.

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Wedding cake from Muniroh's Bakery - What you should know ;)

We have prepared numerous wedding cakes and there are things that you should know if you are interested of ordering one from us.

We only make buttercream and cream cheese frosting cakes, and we do not make fondant cakes. Thus the design would be limited to our signature roses, scrolls, ruffles and flowers. Cream cheese frosting has higher fat content compared to buttercream, thus we recommend this frosting for wedding cake as it can stand at the room temperature up to 8 hours. The frosting will become softer over time, but it won't melt thus the decoration will still be the same.

If you are interested of ordering. There are certain things that we need to know before we can give you the quotation.

1. Date of the event - Let us know when the event will be as we limit our order and we would like to prioritize on your order. Making a wedding cake could take up to three days thus the earlier you give the date the better. Please refer to our Order Schedule for availability.

2. Serving size - It would be great if you could let us know how many people you are planning to serve the cake so that we can estimate the size.

3. Size of the cake - We have a small fridge and oven. Thus the biggest diameter cake that we can make is 11" and the maximum height will be 12" . We need to know how many tiers that you would like, whether you would like barrel wedding cake or would like to stack them on pillars. We will provide plastic pillars and cake boards for those who want the pillars type.

Example of barrel cakes that we have made so far:

Two-tier double barrel cake- red velvet with cream cheese frosting 6" height

Two-tier double barrel cake- red velvet with cream cheese frosting 9" height

Two-tier double barrel cake- Rich chocolate buttermilk with chocolate ganache filling and covered, and fully covered with cream cheese frosting in yellow-gold 11" height

Two-tier double barrel cake- red velvet with cream cheese frosting 12" height

Two-tier double barrel cake- red velvet with cream cheese frosting 9" height

Two-tier double barrel cake- red velvet with cream cheese frosting 12" height

Three-tier cake- rainbow cake with cream cheese frosting 12" height

Example of pillar cake that we have made so far (not many pictures as they are provided from the customers): 

2-tier cake with plastic pillars and boards provided by use. Tall red velvet cake (6" height) and cupcakes. Picture courtesy to our customer :)

4. Cake and frosting flavor - We don't recommend cake with soft texture (like our dark chocolate cake) if you are interested of having barrel cake. As for the frosting, we will use plain cream cheese frosting if you want the decoration to be colored. The filling on the other hand can be any flavor that you want. You can refer to our Order Form for cake and frosting flavors.

5. Pick-up or on-site assembly - We only provide delivery and on-site assembly (with additional charge) within our area (Putrajaya-Kajang-Bangi-etc). Pick up location will be at our house and we will explain to you how to transport and cut the cake.

6. Within your budget - If you don't know what to order, let us know your budget and we will give several options for you to decide.

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How to order delicious homemade desserts from Muniroh's Bakery

1. Check our Order Schedule for availability. Order has to be at least 4 days to a week before depending on our availability.

2. Fill up the Order Form(s) to get exact quotation as the price vary depending on what you want. If you have multiple orders (like two cakes etc) please fill up more order forms to avoid confusion.

3. After you have received the quotation from us. Transfer  50% or full amount of money to our bank account for your order(s) to be consider booked and to avoid last minute cancellation. Payment must be done within 24 hours after quotation has been received. As we limit the amount of orders we take daily, thus the customers who make the earliest payment will be given the priority.  Send the payment notification or proof of payment to thewhiteboxz@gmail.com

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4. When we have received your deposit, we will write down your name on our Order Schedule. Do check it out in case we miss that. Receipt will be given as request.

5. Strictly pick up at our house No 30, Jalan Tambatan 19/16 (it is written Jalan Jambatan on Google map *sigh*). If you get lost, call us at 013-2345814 (Mas) :)

Happy ordering~ :D

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Cookies, brownies and bars for Raya

Last year few of my friends and customers asked if I had made cookies for Raya (Eid-fitr: one of the Muslims' celebrations to mark the end of fasting month, Ramadhan). Sadly, I didn't. I had to finish up my last master's objective thus I could not bake any. This year, however, I am planning to sell some of delicious and mouth watering cookies, brownies and bars that are suitable not only for Raya, but also other festive seasons - Chinese New Year, Deepavali, Christmas, Nowruz (Iranian new year), etc. 

They are also available during the normal days, but special promotions are only given during the festive seasons :)

Ultimate Belgian chocolate brownies

Sounds mouth-watering? Because they do! These delicious brownies are made with Belgian chocolate bar and pure butter. The walnuts in the brownies make the brownies more rich. They are dense, very chocolatey,  and not that sweet (because the baker likes it that way :D)

Pecan chocolate bars

Another favorite! Hubby even said it tastes like nussecken, one of German's popular pastry. The based is so buttery, and you can tell that from the crumbs. Butter makes bars/cookies more crumbly, and yet more delicious! The topped is rich with pecans and chocolate. It reminds me of pecan pie - with a twist :)

Email me at tewhiteboxz@gmail.com if you want to order them for Raya. They can be delivered to other parts of Malaysia using Pos Laju. Check out Muniroh's Bakery Facebook Page for their prices :)

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