60 cakes sold in 3 months!

Yippee! I’ve reached 60 cakes (of various sizes) sold in 3 months, ever since I started my home-based baking biz early August. 60 cakes in 3 months means an average of 5 cakes sold every week. Hurray!

I didn’t expect to reach beyond 50 so fast. I was doing last month’s book keeping yesterday, and was so surprised when I realized I’ve already exceeded my target of selling 50 cakes in 3 months 2 weeks earlier. Mostly due to the recent Hari Raya festivities.

98% of the cakes sold are my well-loved chocolate cakes. The rest are marble cakes. I haven’t had the time to try out new recipes yet, and frankly speaking, I’ve barely enough income to splurge on testing new recipes which might possibly fail (which one test already did, haha). I’m gonna wait till I reach 100 cakes first before I start testing the other recipes I’ve already collected.

I’m pleased to say that my cakes have traveled all over Malaysia, mainly in the Peninsular and have even reached Sabah and will soon travel down under to Singapore. If business continue to be this good, I’m gonna start thinking of other ways to market the cakes. At the moment, I can only cope with direct orders.

Thanks D, H and I for your support through all the hard times. I wouldn’t have made it this far if you guys haven’t cheered me on. ; p

AFC, a TV Channel dedicated to food….yummy!

Since 13th Oct, there’s a new TV channel in town. The Asian Food Channel or AFC. Thanks ASTRO! Yup, I finally managed to get ASTRO at home. That means a lot more time spent watching the telly, and mostly on the new channel 703.

AFC has become my “filler” tv channel, the channel I tune in to when there’s nothing good onTV. They have so many cooking shows not just from Asia; I think I caught a French cooking show the other day. Its also great that my favourite “villain” chef, Chef Ramsay is on every few days on 2 separate shows, Extreme Gourmet, and the F Word, when watching his reality show, Hell’s Kitchen on NTV7 is not enough. AFC also have the lovable our very own Chef Wan on Malay Master Chef.

A note of warning though, if you just ate, or are on a diet, dont watch this channel. There’s a side effect of wanting to rush of to get urself some food from the kitchen. It did to me. ; p

Marble Cakes on Merdeka day

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Happy 50th Merdeka Anniversary Malaysia!

I’m sorry Malaysia. I know I’m one day late. Malaysia’s 50th Merdeka or Independence celebration was on 31st August. But its been a pretty bz weekend. I was perfecting a marble cake recipe. Its not very yummy yet, though I still rate it 3.5 out 5 stars.

I have baked several orders of chocolate cake and my brother thought its high time I start selling marble cake too. He’s gonna bring a sample to work on Monday and I wanted to tweak the recipe a bit before I can confidently say “I bake great, tasty and yummy marble cake and you will regret not tasting it.” I’m hoping that his colleagues will like it enough for me to get a couple of orders in time for the Hari Raya celebration.

Well, one down. On to the rest on my “to bake list”. I’ll keep you guys posted. Below’s a pic of the marble cake fresh out of the oven. Cheers!