Just another new beginning of another story....

Ta-DAH!! I finally get my hand off to start my bakery blog. I have three blogs on hand now and it is not easy to maintain @_@... Well, let's start off with why I am the bakery gal? Like everyone I have a dream of dream. I first share out my dream to a friend of mine when I was in US. I told him I enjoyed cooking, baking (anything all related to food to be exact :P), collecting miniature food and so. Somehow this person managed to get me off from my workaholic mindset to set off a journey to my own dream. I always wanted to do something for community (I have been blessed so I want to bless others too...) so my dream is actually to open up a bakery shop and then have my 10% of my profit donated to old folks home or orphanage. Not just that I will provide free breads/cakes to them as well!! ^_^ Being an engineer, I really cannot do much in helping the society *haih*. After coming back from US, I started cook/bake very diligently. Every Saturday morning 8-9am, I will be in Sunshine wet market buying grocery (like auntie @_@) and then have my lunch cooked (trying new recipe or enhancing the recipe every week :P). Then in the evening I will try to do some baking like cake/muffin/bread. Haha, my US friend supplied me with an anime called "Yakitake" (In Japan: Freshly Baked!! Ja-pan). Courtesy to Wikipedia --> The story focuses on Kazuma Azuma, a boy on his quest to create "Ja-pan", a nationa bread for Japan itself. He initially heads to Tokyo to expand his horizons at the bread-making chain Pantasia. I was so inspired with the boy!! From there, I learned to make my 1st bread...utilizing a rice cooker :D It works ok!! Haha... My dream never blows away….it just continues..I have made Tiramisu, a simple birthday cake, muffins, gingerbread man, cheese cake…etc even without much experience in baking. I repeat ..I am an inexpert baker. :P These are my treasures:
And many many more….However, due to the fact I am inexpert, it took me whole lot of time and effort to make one successful. So, embarked on the quest to become a more “professional” pastry chef, I enrolled in a commercial baking and pastry course! Hehe, it costs me a whole lot of RM4500. I know this is a big sum, but remember..a dream will always be just a dream if it is without effort. Haha, from that day on, I spent 4 months with 3 days per week and 3-4 hours per day. It was such an awe-inspiring experience for me to learn from a well renowned chef in Malaysia who has remarkable recognition from Taiwan and Singapore. I not just learned bakery but also get to know many people from different group of society who shared the same passion as I do *wink*

P/S: Someone just commented that I should change my blog name to “Road to pastry”. He said “something more positive and seems like following a target to do something :P. Your pastry dream will come true lar, tat’s why I invest all these tools on you lor” P^_^P Ngo wooi ka yau lar!

This is my bakery course structure:

Part A : Decoration
Lesson 1
Theory (introduction of ingredients)
Lesson 2
Cake Sculpturing
Lesson 3
Sides, Small Flowers, Carnation
Lesson 4
Rose, Lily
Lesson 5
Wording (Happy Birthday Day ,etc.), Leaf, Grass
Lesson 6
Cartoon cake – Clown, Mickey ,Rabbit (Optional)
Lesson 7
Barbie Doll Cake
Lesson 8
Basket Cake / Number 1 Cake (Optional)
Lesson 9
Key-shaped Cake / Book-shaped Cake / Peach-shaped Cake (Optional)
Lesson 10
Two-tier Wedding Cake – square, love, round (Optional)
Lesson 11
Test (marked by tutor)

Part B : Assorted cake and bread
Lesson 1
Technical Theory
Lesson 2
Croquant, peanut-butter, onion oil, pineapple, sesame, coconut, butter filling
Lesson 3
Sweet Bun (7 Varieties), Pandan Bun
Lesson 4
Walnut Bread, Butter Cookies, Coconut Cookies
Lesson 5
Twist bread, Peach Pie
Lesson 6
Curry Puff, Doughnut, Curry Filling
Lesson 7
Cheese Bread, Mini Sandwich Loaf
Lesson 8
Wholemeal Bread, Banana Cake,
Lesson 9
Mexico Bun, Potato Bun
Lesson 10
Muar Chi Bread, Almond Flakes Cookies
Home Assignment
Students make a product from the part B (test by tutor).

Part C : Continental Cake
Lesson 1
Black & White Chocolate Design
Lesson 2
Black Forest Cake, Toblerone Cheese Cake
Lesson 3
Bluebbery Mousse Cake, Golden Baked Cheese Cake
Lesson 4
Orange Syeacause Cake, Yin Yang Mousse Cake
Lesson 5
Horlicks Cream Cake, Marble cheese cake
Lesson 6
Royal Fruit Flan, Surubaya Cake
Lesson 7
American Cheese Cake, Cream Chesse Mousse Cake
Lesson 8
Nougat Walnut Cake, Green Tea Red Bean Cake
Lesson 9
Tiramisu, Guinness Cake
Lesson 10
Layer cake, Yam Layer cake
Home Assignment
Students make a product from the part C (test by tutor).

Part D : Royal Icing, Desert and small cake
Lesson 1
Fruit Cake, Royal Icing Skin, Icing Sugar Cream (decoration)
Lesson 2
5 Small Cakes (round, triangle, square, rectangle, small basket)
Lesson 3
Desert-stuffing and decoration (Apple mousse and cream cheese mousse cake)
Lesson 4
Desert-stuffing and decoration (Mango mousse and mocha mousse cake)
Lesson 5
Desert-stuffing and decoration (Yam mousse cake)
Competition

Team competition (make product from Part A,B,C)