Happy New Year 2012

Hi to all!

JBcookies wishes you a wonderful new year 2012!
May you achieve all your new target and resolutions for the upcoming new year.

 

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Deepavali Greetings from JBcookies

Deepavali Cookies

2011 Deepavali Cookies Promotion.

Visit www.resipiemak.com.my 

Or email to resipiemak@gmail.com for more details.

Decorated Cookies

Hey there. I just discovered an interesting blog about decorated cookies. Some of you might heard of Sweetopia, here is the link  http://sweetopia.net/.

The blog owner, Marian, shared a lot of tips and videos as well over there. Here is one of my favorite video, "making a daisy cookies". Enjoy!

p/s: all pictures and video, credit to sweetopia.net

Beautiful Cookies

Hi there!

Here I compiled some of the beautiful cookies around the world. Look how amazing and creative these people are. Maybe it might inspire you to try it out. I know I am truly inspired.

Enjoy the picture!

http://www.etsy.com/

http://blisstree.com/

 

 

http://www.foodforconversation.com

http://www.centralfloridacookies.com

The history of chocolate chip cookies - part 1

Hi there everyone!

Do you know that the chocolate chip cookies was accidentally created by Ruth Wakefield (picture)? She was indeed a home-baker/restaurant owner that served delicious desserts for their diners.

However one day, they (she and her husband) was out of regular baker's chocolate for their chocolate-butter cookies. So instead she replace the baker's chocolate with some chopped Nestle bar chocolate and hoping that the chopped chocolate will melt.When the cookies were taken out of the oven, the Nestle bar did not melt! ....and ladies and gentleman the CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES were born that day.

Later, the traditional cookies came up to be the chocolate chip cookies as we know today. Do you that Ruth Wakefield sold the recipe to Nestle and in return she get a lifetime supplies of Nestle chocolate bar! Wooooohhhh......!

Wake up...wake up...wake up....

Hi there everybody...it's time of the year again for me to get busy!

I already revamped this blog a little bit, hope everybody likes it. Hey there bakers out there!!!  :) I am calling each and one of you especially if you are in JB or Johor Bahru area....hope you can drop by and share your experience here or maybe just drop by to say hi! Hehehe. Or maybe you can promote your lovely blog here too.

Come, come...don't be shy....

Just contact me, resipiemak@gmail.com.

 By the way, i am Farhana.

Happy New Year 2011

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

JBcookies wishes you Happy New Year!

Tips for creating The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie

Chocolate chip cookies are best fresh-baked and hot from the oven.

If you'd like to bake truly outstanding chocolate chip cookies, here you'll find tips for creating chocolate chip cookies that you love the best. You'll discover the secrets for baking delicious chocolate chip cookies.

By following these tips, you can create awesome, mouthwatering and unique chocolate chip cookies that you and your family will rave about.

So let's get started...

Cookie Tip 1:

Use the absolute freshest, highest quality ingredients. Make sure you handle them properly from the time you bring them home with you to the time you enjoy eating your chocolate chip cookies.

More baking tips to come...

How to Start A Home Based Business - Part 1

Hi All,

I came across an interesting website while browsing for guides & tips to start my home based @ online cookies business. While I'm learning the steps, tips and guidelines from this website, I also want to share the knowledge & information with all of you.


Why Start An Online Business?

The poor get poorer and even the middle class is losing ground at an alarming rate!

Offline it is difficult if not impossible for the average person to compete. But online we are on equal footing. If anything, we have an advantage over MegaCorp, Inc.

Note: MegaCorp, Inc. is not a real business, just a metaphor for large businesses we all deal with everyday.

If you go online looking for information about a product, MegaCorp delivers advertising. "But I was looking for information" you say.

Ordinary people like you and I are delivering that information with product reviews - our personal experience with a product. And these sites get most of the traffic and make money at the same time. We do not sell, we give our opinions, good and bad, about a product or service.
Even if you have a product to sell you provide your visitors with information and reviews. Your website or blog focuses on a narrow niche so the search engines can find YOU.


What Are the Benefits of Starting an Online Business?

Freedom - Work From Home. Work when you want, as many or as few hours as you want, where you want, no commute, not being a slave to the time-clock, and freedom to spend time with your family when you want.
If you want a raise, simply write more content for your website or build another site.

Usually Low Start-Up Costs - I suggest you start with something simple, which requires no investment other than domain name registration and web hosting. No office or retail space to rent, so your costs are minimal.
Keep your day job until you start earning enough to support yourself and family, plus a little extra.
As long as you have a computer with internet access you already have most of what you need to operate your online home business.
Won't it be fun to see the expression on your boss's face when you hand in your resignation?

Get Out of Debt - This should be your first goal when starting you own online business.
Get all those credit cards paid off. Pay off your mortgage. If you work hard you can pay off all your bills and live credit free.


What Are the Disadvantages of Starting an Online Business?

Set Your Own Hours
Do you have the discipline to get the work done? Not everyone does. Without having to punch the time-clock it can be tempting to do anything but work.
If you are going to run a business YOU have to get the work done. The responsibility rests on your shoulders. Set aside specific hours to get the job done.
Let your family know you need to be able to work without being interrupted unnecessarily. This did not sink in with my family until I showed them that first $1,067.18 check. Everyone seems to believe that as long as you are at home you are available at their convenience for the most insignificant things. It may take some time to convince them this really is work.

No Group Insurance
That corporate job may have taken care of life and medical insurance for you. Once you leave your job, these fringe benefits are your responsibility.

No Weekly Paycheck
Do you fear not having the certainty of a weekly paycheck from your offline job? But how certain is that offline job? Downsizing, plant closures, going out of business is a fact of life in today's business world. If you lack confidence in your own abilities, a work at home online business
may not be for you.

Learning (Education)
There is a long learning curve for most people. It can take years to learn how to make a living with your own online home based business. Colleges and Universities don't teach you, they only seem to want to teach how to do techy stuff for MegaCorp.
Speed things up; bypass that learning curve by working with a mentor who already knows how.

If you have the determination, the dedication, a willingness to get the job done, and a passion for what you do, an online home based business may be for you.

(Source from start-online-home-biz.com)

Recipe: Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hi All,

New recipe posted on Resipi Emak. Click to view full recipe - Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Image from Martha Stewart.

Recipe: Cream Cheese Brownies

Hi All,

New recipe posted on Resipi Emak. Click to view full recipe- Cream Cheese Brownies.

Image from Joy of Baking.

Guide to Create Business Name

Does the name make the company, or does the company make the name?
image from www.jasonreuben.com

Hi Everyone!

I'm creating a great name for my business. I came across a few tips and guidelines on choosing or creating a great business names. Let me share them with you.

Types of Business Names:

1~ Personal Names: naming a business after you is an easy thing to do. It also ads some sort of credibility to your company. You can use your initials, first name, last name or full name.

2~ Descriptive Names: descriptive names make it easier for you customers to understand what kind of good or service you provide.

3~ Combined Business Names: combination of personal and descriptive names is also common in the modern business community.

4~ Brandable Business Names: hard to come up with, but have the most success in the long term.

How to:

1~ Brainstorm. Think about how you want people to feel when they hear the name. Write down the words on paper.Take a glance at the names of the other businesses within your industry. What is it about certain names do you like? Or dislike? What about the name makes it effective or ineffective? Figure out what you like, and don't like, about other business's names.

2~ Relate. Think about related words and phrases that evoke the feelings you want. Hit the thesaurus and find all the synonyms for your words and phrases.

3~ Relate more. Find out the Greek and Latin translations of your words. Figure out what colors, gemstones, plants, animals, etc., relate to your words.

4~ Experiment. Start playing with combinations of your various words and partial words. Don't be judgmental now - just make a list.

5~ Reflect. Review your list and just give some thought to each name. How does it make you feel when you hear it?

6~ Communicate. Go over the list with someone you trust. Have them tell you how each name makes them feel, and how memorable they think it is.

7~ Prioritize. Throw out any that just don't fit and make a prioritized list of the rest.

8~ Check trademarks. Make sure no one is using that name in your line of business. You may be able to use the name in a completely different business, but be aware that it may create confusion for both you and them.

9~ Check domain names. You want to make sure that an appropriate domain name is available. You want YourCompanyName.com, of course. If that's not available, you may want to reconsider.

10~ Search the internet. Even if someone doesn't have the domain, you still want to see what else is out there that has the same name. That doesn't mean you don't use it if you find something, but you need to know.

11~ Check assumed names. For sole proprietors, check for local assumed names. (also known as DBA).

12~ Stake your claim! Register your assumed name or file your incorporation papers right away. Also, start using either TM (trademark) or SM (service mark). You do NOT have to register them to use them.

Tips:

1~ Avoid generic brand names since they are hard to remember and almost impossible to trademark.

2~ Avoid geographic related names since they limit the possibility of expansion.

3~ Don’t restrict yourself to a few products or services. Establish a broad view for the long term success and expansion.

4~ Remember that having “A” as your first letter could easily improve your position in Yellow Pages.

5~ Emphasize your business mission, tell customers what you do and why you are good at it.

6~ A good business name has to be memorable – but easy to spell and pronounce.

7~ A good business name needs to include information about what your business does. - Chances are good that your new business is not going to become an international brand. It certainly isn’t instantly going to become as well known as Nike. So you need to be sure that your new business name at least gives your potential customers or clients some clues about what you actually do.

Funny Business Names

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Current Status: Busy

I am currently busy preparing and promoting for Hari Raya orders. Few discussions had been made, people to meet. I am expecting busy months ahead, July and August.

Hey, never thought there are a lot of women out there only working for a month (Ramadhan) and get paid (profit) for a year. True story. I read it here, and actually met a few people that eventually proved it right.

Currently I am promoting my cookies to bazaar seller...and if you happen to know anyone, you can contact me... :)

- Farhana -

Happy Teacher's Day

JBcookies wishes HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY to all teachers all around the world....

Celebrate Teacher's Day with delicious cookies from JBcookies!!!
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Happy Mother's Day

May is the month to celebrate mother's all around the world...

Therefore, I wish 'Happy Mother's Day' to all mothers around the world.

Celebrate Mother's Day with JBcookies special gift wrap!!!
Moms will love it!!!
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Home Bakery - You Won't Get Rich Doing It

As pessimist would tell us, "you won't get rich by doing that". We agree, yes we won't be rich by doing home bakery. That's the reality. You may ask, "But why you do it?". Below are the answers that I think already crossed your mind.

• sick and tired of the rat race...(the longer you live, the bigger the cage will be)
  
• bored with office politic (hehe)
  
• to escape the 9-5 working hours
• I prefer to do what I love, think about the financial rewards later
• in order to aim something bigger, we have to start somewhere, right?
• want to meet new people, instead of the same 20 person in the department
  

Home bakery is one of the Do-It-Yourself enterprise. Though we won't be rich because the income largely come from active income. But doing what you love and survive, is a bonus. Plus, the flexible working hours that most of the corporate slave envy and the wonderful (and also not so wonderful) people that you get to meet. Guess what, you will get to work at home surrounded with people that you love. This is exactly very contrast to what you will endure in office :).

Today's marketing is very different from what we had nearly 10 years ago. We are very lacking in the marketing field, but thanks a lot to the internet. Nowadays, even Hari Raya cookies are sold online. So we just tag along with the current trend. Jump into the bandwagon and see what happened although we were not very clear of what exactly internet marketing really about. When ResipiEmak first launched, the orders were very overwhelming and unexpected. Thank you very much to our first batch of online customers.

The point is, there is no harm in trying, especially if you have the support of your loved ones. And I am grateful to have such a wonderful and supportive hubby. Thanks hubby! Maybe someday all the recipes that I learn from emak (mother) can be turn into a famous branding. Who knows?

I believe it is very clear that, doing what you love and try to build wealth around it is the only way to go. No shortcut to success, so take that first big step and ignore the pessimist.

Good luck!

-farhana-

Too much of a dream?

Sugar! Pls keep the cookies fresh.

To supermom, home baker & cookie lover...

Normally what we do to keep the cookies fresh is by keeping them tight in a container. But do you know that sugar also able to keep the cookies from stale? Sugar is hygroscopic (able to attract moisture)...and also attracting ants!

If you want to keep that home made cookies fresh, place a teaspoon of sugar at the bottom of the cookie jar. This will just do it! Note to moms: You might want to consider this tip if you have ants problems :) .


Sugar can also be to keep the cookies dough from sticking. If you are making a cut-out cookies, try to dust the counter with confectioner's sugar/powder sugar instead of flour. For your info, dusting the counter with flour will only make your dough become dry.

Type of Cookies

Expect these cookies to be in our catalog soon... :)

Bar Cookies are prepared by putting the dough in a rectangular pan. They are baked and then cut into squares. Most drop cookie recipes can be converted to this type of cookie. These are the easiest cookies to make, because several batches are baked at once.

Bar Cookies photo courtesy of mbiscotti.com

Drop cookies are the easiest individual cookies to make. Balls of dough are dropped from a spoon onto a cookie sheet. You can find the most famous drop cookies in Johor Bahru here :) .

Drop cookies photo courtesy of bfeedme.com

Molded Cookies dough is formed by the hands into shapes such as: wreaths, crescents, canes, or balls. Balls are sometimes flattened with the bottom of a glass.

Molded cookies photo courtesy of baking911.com

Pressed Cookies are made by pressing the dough through a cookie press or pastry tube to form different shapes. For Hari Raya, this type of cookies can filled half the table :) ...

Pressed cookies photo courtesy of dianasdesserts.com

Refrigerator or Icebox Cookies are prepared by shaping the dough into long rolls and then refrigerating them. Once cold, the dough can be sliced and baked. This is a great prepare-ahead-of-time dough because it can also be frozen.

Icebox cookies photo courtesy of william-sonoma.com

Rolled Cookies take a little more preparation. With a rolling pin, chilled dough is rolled out. The dough is cut into shapes by using a knife, pastry wheel or cookie cutter.

Rolled cookies photo courtesy of vegancookies.wordpress.com

Anti Fatigue Mat

photo courtesy of: cookingforengineers.com

Anti fatigue mat can help those who work long hours standing. Chef, home baker & full time moms are potential user of this anti fatigue mat. So, what is exactly anti fatigue mat? ANTI FATIGUE mat is a mat that can reduce strain on your foot, knee & back due to long standing period.

It is originally designed for industrial used but now they are available for those who spend hours at the kitchen counter. I am still looking for supplier in Johor Bahru. If there is any...So that I can say goodbye to all the aching in my foot when mixing the cookies dough or when doing daily task by the kitchen counter. :)

So how the mat work? In simple words, they absorb the body weight. Instead of transferring the body mass to the hard floor. :)

Before buying the mat, you can read it here for tips.