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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Wednesday Special 09



Sunday turned out to be another hot sunny day, and lucky enough we had prepared containers to put ice replicating emergency refrigerators. With T’s help I managed to bake 1 Cheese Cake, 1 Kiwi Chocolate Cake, 1 Vanilla Chocolate Cake, 1 Fresh Cream and Fruit Cake, 15 cups of Stawberry Panacottas, 10 cups of Orange Panacottas, and 36 Vanilla Cupcakes. Gosh, I was actually impressed with the range we produced within the available time. By the way, Panacotta was T’s idea since he liked it the last time I made Vanilla Panacotta from the previous post.



Arriving at the spot, we were pleased to find out that we got a space shaded under the building and with a nice table for setting up our cake stands. And the organizer actually gave us the first counter next to the entrance. There were about 20 counters selling various merchandise from clothes, books, shoes, to durian snacks. The latter belonged to the counter next to ours, taken care by a nice young lady who happened to be staying in the same building with us.





We finished setting up around 2:15pm and it was a bit quiet at the beginning. At one point I was actually cracking my head thinking what should we be doing if our cakes weren’t sold at all. The ideas varied from giving away to the orphanage, neighbors or the event organizer. Eventually people, I mean buyers did come, slowly but surely. Our first customer came for a cup of Strawberry Panacotta. It was a hot day and everybody needs a cold dessert. And the way we displayed these Panacotta cups in a transparant ice filled container did attract the eyes in such weather. A second buyer was a handsome guy came for a slice of Cheese Cake, a slice of Kiwi Cake and a Cupcake. What a generous purchase! And then more and more buyers were coming by.





T and I were busy slicing the cake, placing these slices in cake boxes, putting the boxes in plastic bags, giving to the customers, collecting money, and giving change. And of course having a little bit of chit chat with familiar faces. And T happened to be very good at having small talks with the customers or showing welcoming gestures to passers-by. Thanks to T we managed to sell 90% of the cakes within three and a half hours!



And yes, of course a post will not be complete without a recipe. So I will share my Strawberry Panacotta in the following post. See you!

20 comments:

  1. What beautiful cakes and pannna cotta!

    Cheers,

    Rosa

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  2. Oh Kris! I'm always inspired by all your bakings, desserts and photographing. If I'm your first customer I'll definitely buy all of your cakes and desserts not all but one portion each...hahaa..

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  3. That kiwi chocolate cake looks soooooo delicious!

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  4. COngratulation!!! You two made it!!

    (I will need to ask some tips from you for my upcoming project!)

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  5. Everything looks so gorgeous!! I too am eyeing that chocolate and kiwi cake...yum!!!

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  6. Wow! What a great job! Congratulations!!!
    Your cakes are mouth watering...the kwi chocolate cake it's my favourite...

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  7. I'm sure people were very drawn to your gorgeous desserts. Well done! I'll look forward to your panacotta recipe.

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  8. gorgeous cakes! no surprise you sold so many!!! :)

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  9. All those cakes are exquisite (and the panna cotta too).

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  10. Alright!! Who wouldn't be attracted or mesmerized w/ all the goodies you made!! I know i would be! Everything looked so gorgeous! How much baht were you guys selling all these delicious goodies?

    I've made blueberry panacotta years ago, guess i need to make them again w/ your recipe=;) Durian would be a good idea! Do you like fresh durian? I do! I know it's an acquired taste but i've gotten past the smell and focused on the taste! ha!ha!ha!

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  11. ahhhh...all the pics r so so colorful n divine.......wonderful presentaion.......truly a visual treat....
    first time here...u have a lovely space...just started blogging..and love to add u in my list..
    ur comments/suggestions r highly appreciated..happy blogging...following u>>>>>>



    sanyuktagour(bayes)
    http://creativesanyukta.blogspot.com/

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  12. Congratulazioni!!:)
    queste preparazioni sono magnifiche!!:)

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  13. Wow, that was a lot of production. :)

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  14. I would have had a hard time deciding what to buy, but I wish I could have been there! Sounds like you and T are a good team...you baking and T for PR:)
    Everything looks BEAUTIFUL!!! STUNNING photography! I checked out your magazine feature in your sidebar...so exciting!

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  15. Hi kris, it's been a while! I went to visit my family in Canada. Oh! and congratulations for your cake biz! Your cakes are beautiful like usual! ( And your butterfly cookies were just perfect, too^^)

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  16. Everything looks so good, I could probably eat it all right now (and it's after midnight here!).

    I left you something on my blog a while ago. :)

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  17. congrats on a baking and selling success! These cakes look wonderful, and you're amazing to have whipped these all up with the help of just one helper. VERY VERY happy for you!

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  18. Hi Kris, I have been emailing you about the baking supplies stores in Bangkok. I have been visiting couple of them. However, I have a hard time to find a cake display. I'm just wondering whether you can help me on where I can get the cake display like the one you're using for the kiwi chocolate cake. Looking forward to hear from you! thank you so much!

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  19. I'm surprised it took you that long to sell most of those amazing looking treats. Beautiful presentation and photography.

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