Indira The Sweet

Chef Indira Wiegand’s online bakery. Indira is based in New York City and is a classically trained pastry chef.

 

May 2, 2008

Filed under: Cookies — admin @ 10:17 am

I was asked to make a big batch of chocolate chip cookies for another office birthday. The unusual request was to incorporate some sugar decorations in the order. When you are using cake, those decorations are easy to apply, but in a cookie, I had to think about that for a minute! While falling asleep the night before delivery I came up with a solution that I thought might work. It required a little assembly on site, not knowing how they were going to present the birthday cookies, I thought my solution would work. Well, they sent me this picture, and it only slightly resembles my idea. THANK GOD! because this looks much more cohesive. They took the pieces I provided and made a nice presentation. I love collaborations! I am glad they enjoyed it all.

 
 

Leaving sweets… April 26, 2008

Filed under: Cakes, Cookies, Life — admin @ 8:14 pm

When I go to visit friends or just if i am working in a place for a little while, I like to bring something sweet. When I worked at Exhibition Prints Inc. (now defunct), almost every day around 3pm our blood sugar would dip and no matter how busy we were, we would send someone out for a sugar run. Chocolate was always a popular choice.

Recently since I don’t have ONE place that I work, I have been bringing cookies or cupcakes, etc to friends at their places of work. If I am having a lull in my pastry orders or if I have left over cake batter (which happens often) or cookie dough, I love to find an excuse to use those things up. Bringing treats like this either announced or as a surprise always elicits smiles. I took the picture of the cookies on their way to their brief home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the cupcakes I personalized for my friends at My Own Color Lab, where I have been doing freelance printing.

Not only does it make me happy to help my friends get through their work days, it is a good networking tool as well. I suppose it would work better if I could just get a business card printed. I’m working on it!!

 
 

busy baking and data entry…. March 3, 2008

Filed under: Cookies, Enjoyment, Sweets — admin @ 9:06 pm

For the month of February I took a temp job out in New Brunswick New Jersey. Those who know me will chuckle, because I left my other job for a few reasons, and one the biggest ones was I was tired of commuting to NJ! Well sometimes baking cannot pay all the bills, so I have to take some odd jobs. I took this specific one because I was able to work for the company my cousin, (Eden), has been working for, for close to 10 years, Dittman Incentive Marketing.

An office is noooooooooo place for me, but it a “means to an end”. And during my month of working there I have met some really fun people. It has been funny meeting everyone because for years I have heard their names attached to the work stories Eden has told me and now I can match faces and first hand experiences to their names.

So where ever I work, unless it is specific to pastry, I am usually motivated to bake for my fellow employees. It just makes me happy and makes it a little easier to get my head around working in an office environment, if I can come home and bake up something tasty I know people will appreciate. cupcake2.jpg

Last Friday was supposed to be my last day so I baked off some mini cupcakes from the left over cake batter from Peter and Peggy’s anniversary cake, and iced them with caramel buttercream and gilded the lily by topping them with a drizzle of caramel.

Well they “roped” me in for another 2 days this week, (actually I volunteered to work the extra 2 days, but they were happy to accept!), so I was compelled to whip up a batch of a classic, chocolate chip cookies to really say goodbye tomorrow. It is always best to leave people on a sweet note, so they remember you as such.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIRA! February 22, 2008

Filed under: Cakes, Chocolates, Cookies, Enjoyment, Pies, Sweets, Tarts — admin @ 8:33 pm

Indira’s 37th BirthdayI hope you like it, but I created a website for you, and set you with your very own blog!  All of these fake blogs can be deleted when you are ready to type your own!  I created a bunch of categories for you, and the begin to look like links!  You will learn how to use all of this quickly, it is so easy!  If you have a flicker page you can add photographs of your cakes as you please, and write updates on your business as you see fit!  This is a great way to get started!  Use pink cake box as an example!  Because that website is a blog to start anyway! So, for your birthday, I have paid for the registration of the domain name and am hosting it on my website until you want to move it out on your own (well, when it gets too big it will have to move somewhere else, we’ll talk about that later!  

 
 

So who is baking those cakes over there?

Filed under: Cakes, Cookies — admin @ 7:55 pm

Why that’s just little me, Indira!

 I have a 24th Anniversary cake to create this week, so keep checking in for how it goes this week.