After a while..

Posting pertama setelah 3 tahun ga nulis blog! ihiyy..

Sebenernya bingung mau nulis apa, banyak hal yang mau saya ceritakan. Pada awalnya blog ini diperuntukkan untuk menulis seputar hobi baking saya. Tapi dikarenakan banyak hal juga yang sebenernya menarik buat ditulis, jadi saya mengubah konsep blog ini menjadi tulisan saya mengenai tiga hal yang selalu menarik buat saya yaitu baking, eating, dan traveling. 

Mungkin untuk posting kali ini saya lebih banyak memuat foto-foto baking saya selama 3 tahun ini. 

Yeps, setelah berulang kali trial and error, akhirnya saya bisa membuat berbagai macam macaron dan beberapa jenis kue.  Lebih seringnya sih memang macarons and I earn money from that :)

Lots of macarons!!!

macarons in a special box

Kadang-kadang juga di saat masih rajin, decorated cake with fondant.

Winnie the Pooh themed cake for Noven

I do bake some cupcakes 

Christmas cupcakes

FC Barcelona themed cupcakes

And other baked goods that I will post in the future time. Cheers!

Christmas Sweets

It's December already...wheeww..Time flies so quickly. I haven't been blogging for so long. I've been spent my time for doing my baking project and  feel so lazy to write down about it. It's like that I've been so tired sometime and ended up with relaxing my body in my bed instead of turning on my laptop after doing some bakes.

Okay, since it's December so of course it's time to celebrate Christmas. I always love Christmas..Those red and green colors in everything always lift up my mood. Welcoming this holiday season I've baked some sweet Christmas treats like ginger cookies, macarons, and cupcakes.

For Christmas ginger cookies I used some mixed spice from ginger powder, cinnamon, clove, and star anise. The cookies smell so good even I only put 3 teaspoon of the mixed spice for every 2 cups of  flour. I used a meringue powder for the royal icing instead of a raw egg white. This is the first time I used a meringue powder and I am happy with the result.

My Christmas macarons consist of two flavors, chocolate mint and chocolate spice. I'm still looking for better idea for more Christmassy flavor :). And I think the green one is not to green. I want it more green. I guess I have to use a powder food coloring.

And of course Christmas themed cupcakes will cheer up the holiday feeling with cute figurines and decorations. I made vanilla cupcake with blueberry feeling and chocolate cupcake with silky chocolate ganache. So yummy!

I know it's too early to say but I just want to wish you Merry Christmas! Have a happy holiday! ^_^

Black Tea Vanilla Macaroon

I must admit that I'm quite obsessed with this little french confectionery.. It's so beautiful to look at and also good to eat..Last Monday, I made these black tea vanilla macarons. The flavor combination of black tea and vanilla is so great. Unfortunately I was failed making the black tea butter cream filling, well instead of it, I used a simple vanilla butter cream with a few drops of honey and rhum..*happy :) *


I would love to use real vanilla beans for my baking, but I've found vanilla pods are not common here. It's ironic since Indonesia is one of the main producers of vanilla, but they are not available here in any supermarkets. The ones I used in this picture were bought somewhere in Bandung, and when I came back a couple of months ago to buy some more, I found the stock is zero. Where can I get vanilla pods then? I know there are some vanilla plantations in West Java and North Sulawesi, but it seems once the pods are harvested, they are being exported to other countries. And what is left to us? Nothing... :(

My macaroons....

Setelah beberapa kali mencoba dan diakhiri dengan kegagalan akhirnya saya berhasil juga mendapatkan "kaki" si macaroon.. Belum sempurna sih memang dan kyknya perlu latihan lagi mumpung saya punya stok putih telur yang banyak..hehehe...

Kali ini saya mencoba membuat green tea macaroon yang dikasi filling-nya cream cheese..mmmm..next time rasanya lebih cocok kalo isi macaroon ini pake mascaporne cheese deh..I think it will taste better..

Berhubung saya penggemar coklat, chocolate macaroon ini paling saya suka karena the chocolate really goes well with the sweetness of macaroon..
Peer berikutnya nyoba bikin macaroon dengan teknik italian meringue method for a better texture plus variasi rasa....love this macaroon!