Little Bowl

For the 1st time, Littlebowl is now opening their doors for online orders starting from today, for a limited time from:

September 30th – October 4th 2009

Here is the menu that we have to offer our customers:

We accept a MINIMUM ORDER OF 12 CUPCAKES/order with a MINIMUM OF 6 CUPCAKES/flavor of the same price.

eg.  (1)            Vanilla with Vanilla – 6 pieces , Peanutbutter banana with chocolate ganache – 6 pieces

TOTAL = 12 cupcakes

PRICE = RM25

eg. (2)            Red Velvet  - 6 pieces, Smores  - 12 pieces

TOTAL = 18 cupcakes

PRICE = RM30 + RM15 = RM45

Oh and by the way…

So here’s how you can your hands on our cupcakes..

**Terms and Conditions:

• Please place your order AT LEAST 1 day before the pickup date, and please follow the right procedure of placing your order.
• Full payment need to be made immediately once your order have been confirmed either by email/sms to avoid cancellation/backouts.
• No refund will be given for any cancellation/backouts.

**How to order:

Please leave a comment below OR email me at cikkiah[at]gmail[dot]com with the following details:

• Name:
• Contact Number:
• Email address:
• Date & Time of pick-up: (We are currently situated in Gombak. Delivery can be made to certain areas with prior arrangements with delivery fees applied)
• Items & Quantity: (eg. Rich Vanilla with Vanilla  - 12 pcs)
• Payment method: 1. Maybank2U Online Payment  OR 2. Maybank Cash Deposit

Method of Payment:

• Via Maybank2u.com

Please request for my account number upon placing your order. I will email or sms you my account number upon request.

Also please revert the receipt of the payment to cikkiah[at]gmail[dot]com when transferring the money, or we will not accept your order.

• Via Maybank – Cash Deposit

Please request for my account number upon placing your order. I will email or sms you my account number upon request.
Also please keep the receipt of the cash deposit and sms me the full details of the payment. The receipt will also need to be given to me during collection of cupcakes.

Unfortunately we do not accept CASH UPON PICK UP/DELIVERYat the moment. All payment should be done BEFORE pick up/delivery.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

And we look forward to serving you our delectable cupcakes!

-Zakiah@Zack-

www.littlebowl.com

I was browsing through my Facebook this morning and I saw pictures of my high school friends. They had iftar (breaking fast) together last week which was also to celebrate a friend who’s flying off to UK to continue her studies and a friend who’ve just had her birthday.

Seeing the pictures made me really miss high school.

Sometimes I wonder why I am here doing what I’m doing now?

I have so many thoughts running through my mind lately, and I’m constantly evaluating the things I’ve done that have brought me here, to where I am today. I don’t know if I’ve made the right decisions but aside from a few other things, I’m quite content with what I have in my hands.

But I can’t help but to wonder,what would it be like if I walked down a different road?

hmmm….

I bet you don’t understand what I’m talking about huh?

That’s ok.

…

On a fresher note, I’m going back home for a short holiday starting tomorrow. Glad, anxious, nervous, happy, I’m looking forward to the good things I’ll get to do back home.

Sayonara Japan (well..at least for 2 weeks :p)

Photo Courtesy of Nazra

A friend of mine had her pre-wedding photoshoot with Nazra a couple of months back and she asked if I could make some cupcakes for the shoot. So, I thought..wow.. this would be the perfect chance for me to finally make a cupcake bouquet that I’ve oohhh-ed and aaaahhhh-ed for soooo long over the internet.

So what I did was I browsed for the tutorial on how to actually make them because although I could figure out how they’re made, I wasn’t 100% sure and I didn’t want to take the risk of wasting delicious cupcakes because of a disasterous looking cupcake bouquet.

And then I found this and used that as a guide to make my bouquet.

Because my cupcakes were just slightly bigger than a regular mini cupcake, I used toothpicks to secure the cupcakes to the foam in the vase.

Although the technique shown was to actually frost the cupcakes before placing them on the foam, I did the opposite. I secured the cupcakes on the foam first, and later piped the frosting on top.

You can do either way; with both having its own pros and cons.

Pipe-first-secure-later:

PROS:

• You’ll have a nicer finishing to the cupcakes because the frostings are piped first.

CONS:

• Your frosting cannot be soft (like using SMBC in a hot summer day) or they will plop right off the cupcake as soon as you try to assemble them. And not to forget, you’ll DEFINITELY get some smudges on the cupcakes (unless you’re UBER careful when assembling)
• You also need to make sure you know where you want to place your cupcakes, meaning you have to measure out the size of the cupcakes and make a lay out on the foam ahead of time.

Secure-first-pipe-later:

PROS:

• You can arrange the cupcakes freely and even if you make mistakes arranging them, you can easily re-arrange with no worries of smudged frostings.

CONS:

• Piping the frosting CAN BE A GREAT CHALLENGE with this technique. Especially if you’re also adding some fresh/dried flowers to the bouquet like I did. Frosting the cupcakes was the last step that I made and my-oh-my, it wasn’t as easy as I thought.

So, I guess it depends on which you think is most comfortable with you. Those with years of piping experience can go ahead and secure the cupcakes first, but those who worry that their cupcakes might just look like goop after being piped should probably opt for the first technique.

This was how it looked like from the top.

And this was the front view of the bouquet.

I thought I did a pretty good job and my friend was also very happy with the cupcakes. I think I might just have my sisters sell these back home as their new side business.

They do make great centerpieces for weddings, or even a gift for a special someone, don’t you think?

5th day of Ramadhan.

I was trying to find something good to do and was intrigued by a friend to make booties for my baby (after seeing her successfully making a pair for her tweety pie)

..oh, and also because I’m quite the al-cheapo-kinda-mommy :p

Being the “enthusiast” I am, I went straight to searching the easiest booties template I could find.

Yes, the EASIEST :p

And I found this.

They were, fairly easy to make. But because I don’t have a sewing machine, mine took forever to sew (well, a good couple of hours at least) But they were well-worth the time and I’ve never felt so proud! (You see, I rarely sew, so this was considered as a GREAT achievement for me :p)

I made two pairs; one in Pink (my fave color) and another in Blue & Green.

I think I might just make a few more pairs soon.

This is how it’d look like on a pair of teeny feet