Dare to bake

I had a request of making a large macarons (like a cake) for a wedding gift. I've never tested or made it, although did ever thought about it. Ispahan has been my favourite. But seems to me that too much ingrediants to use.

I just took the chance to do it anyway. Since my friend SJ requested macarons like Tiffany's colour, to incorperate with her Tiffany's Calla Lilies, I then made a large macarons of 9 inch in size. Filled the inner part with dark chocolate ganache, also lychee buttercream and arranged the circumference with fresh raspberry. First time did it, and it really taste GREAT. Although for original recipe, it does call for rose flavour to be added too.

At the same time , I've already make arrangement with SK for some photoshoots. I love the outcome of the picture. Just great.

Bright & Sunny

The weather this time are very unpredictable. It's so scorching bright in the morning and then later pouring heavily in the afternoon. Nevertheless, one has made the mood to be more bright for the day. Got an order from T as favor. Bright orange ribbon with flavours of Dark Chocolate, Blueberry and Lemon. Is enough to make the guest feels bright and cheery.

My First Monogram

Here's the first Sweet Merveilles monogram I tried to make. What do you think??

Using Photoshop

I've been reading alot of tutorials for photoshop. Actually what caught my attention is the beautiful designs of monogram. I just love to look how simple of just 2 or 3 letters can make a nice monogram. Why didn't I think of this before I got married. I would have make my wedding card more special and personalise.

Anyway, it took quite a lot of pratices into using the Photoshop. All this while I've only been using it for simple editing. All is takes is your creative thinking and a good colour combination. Get the right font to go with the right occassion. I'm using version 7, and there are a lots of not so many nice fonts in there. But I found nice fonts to download from fonts101.com. It's free to download.

Did try to make some "SweetMerveilles" monogram......but doesn't turn out like it suppose to be......Hehhehehe.....

Anyway, I'll try and postup at least one of the monogram that I made later.....(I promise). Then you can tell me if it's ugly.

Curiosity

Fews days ago, I make announcement from the site, that we will be featuring new product and designs to be added into our gallery. We've received a large number of private messages, curious to know what are they. They can't wait till the 15th.

The past two month, we have taken long break for macaron orders. During these period, we have experimented and tried new recipes and come up with new designes for the future brides as well as for other special occassions. Not really not sure how it will goes once we reveal it.

Nevetheless, I will still going to reveal it after 15th.....(not now !!....hehehehe). So be ready and check out for more from our gallery.

2008, Year of the Baby Boom...

Got 2 orders for celebration of new born babies. Made 100 bags of bite size cookies with mix chocolate & lemon flavours. As well as 30 pcs lemon flavour cookies of baby onesie.



(Bite size cookies)

Start of another new sweet blog...

The 1st day I'm starting my blog for Sweet Merveilles. It's been more than a year that my sis and I started our baking biz with this name. Since then, more contacts were made and we created friendly relations with the people in the network. Now, its time for us to move on to more opportunities besides our current site.

Let us start again with what we have started from our current site. Sweet Merveilles was created after we fell in love with the taste and look of Macarons / Macaroons. First taste we had was from Paris, Laduree. During that time, we were not very keen to explore if there are any macarons selling here in Sg. Eventually, we started with trying out making the Macaron ourselves. Many times we had attempted to make these cuties..but we were still unable to get the "feet"!!. Right!....It was so frustrating. Honestly, this macaron was, by far, the hardest cookie to bake and soo much effort, time and care had to be put into making it.

Well.... long story short, we manage to learn from an expert about macarons. Our first attemptin baking after the lesson, SUCCESS!!! The "feet" was there!! And what's more.....no cracks!



And since then, we have got more and more supports from friends and family. These macarons are the most temperamental food we've ever made. Each time we try making it, it will often gives different consistency and height of the "feet". Nevertheless, we enjoy making it.

More pictures will be added into this blog. So come and visit us again.......hopefully we're able to show more pictures of our products.