Happy 7th birthday to Princess Mikaila

Special thanks & congratulations to our friends Omar & Leslie for a successful 7th birthday party for their pretty & smart princess Mikaila. You guys rock!:)
We helped our friends create a display table with a Princess doll cake, Oreo pops, Mallow pops & pink Oreo treats, all glittery in pink & purple - just like they requested!
The creative mother of the celebrant crafted the pretty lettering display on the table - with the tiny princess dolls too.
Overall it was a beautiful princess-themed display that made the birthday girl so happy.

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Day 1 of summer!

Hello!

My first day of summer was spent delivering cake and cupcakes for a little girl's birthday party at this art place for children in Long Beach. It was such a delight to see the celebrant and her family plus some familiar smiling faces of our friends that day! :) 

The venue was the Averyboo Art Place, and it is such as colorful & fun place to hold parties or events for kids.  As an artist, I get excited whenever  I see paints, colored chalks, and anything that sparks my imagination and gives me inspiration for new cake ideas and designs. 

By the way, the cake I made for the celebrant was colored purple and pink, with plenty of butterflies and colored blossom flowers. Her birthday theme was My Little  Pony, and my cake design simply matched the background colors and theme of her themed table spread and toy.

The cake itself is made of my triple chocolate cake filled with dark chocolate truffle filling and 3 kinds of chocolate chips.

The celebrant's mom was so kind to share the photos they took of the happy 3-year old and her friends. See here the collage I made using 3 of her pics. The best part of my job as a cake artist is seeing smiling faces with my cake. #happiness

Happy summer caking!

Enjoy!:)

Chef Chichay

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Sugar Toppers, figurines and more!

Hi!
I often get requests for sugar toppers, and believe me, it makes me so excited!:-)
There are molds sold for figures of any shape out there, but I find myself enjoying hand-molding toppers using either chocolate or sugarpaste.
Shown here are a few photos of the cake toppers  I made for friends and families recently.

Hope you like it!:-) 

For more samples of our sugar creations, please checkout my Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/chichayskitchen.com

Chef Chichay

Icing Smiles cake #1 in 2014 - Diva Princess cake

Yesterday, we delivered this diva princess-themed cake to a 7 year old girl named Lovina. She is a sibling of a young boy who is battling leukemia.

I am sharing here part of the email update I sent to Icing Smiles after my cake delivery, expressing how I felt about this latest "call-to-action":

"As usual, my heart was filled with joy because of the wonderful energy I felt in that house when we brought the cake.

A child's smile is priceless! 
At the very end of my visit, Lovina said thank you to me and she nodded with a big smile when I asked her if she was happy.  She seemed to be wanting to "hug" her cake too. :-) 
Thanks to Icing Smiles for giving siblings of sick children this kind of attention and love they so need/deserve.
I thank Icing Smiles for the opportunities given to Sugar Angels like myself - to be able to help and provide families of sick children a reason to "smile" in our own little ways."

Icing Smiles gives us Sugar Angels the opportunity to be a "blessing" to others.

Smiles, and blessings to everyone!:-)

Chichay

Valentine Month

Recently, friends and family's events have been around themes that required red color schemes. Very appropriate for the Valentine month, right? I decided to make a collage of several projects that are "red"! :-) I hope you like it and let's enjoy the rest of the week! - Chichay

Chichay's Donation Drive for Haiyan

My husband and I decided to help the Philippines with what we could here on our end, so we had a week-long donation drive for Haiyan relief, encouraging friends and family to send over cash donations. 100% of the proceeds of the donation  drive were sent to Giving Children Hope in Buena Park, Ca (they send containers of relief goods and medical supplies to the Philippines through their counterparts), and to Dr. Bing Denolo-Chavez and family's donation drive for Capiz.

As "thank you" tokens to the donors, we let them choose a pack of pastries, and we delivered the free pastries to them this past week (see photos of some pastries here).

We would like to thank all of the participants to our donation drive, and we are hoping and praying that we all continue to help the people of the affected areas in the Philippines.

I heard someone say "let us make sending help a marathon, not a sprint...". I believe that they need more continuous help over there. 

Again, thank you and God bless us all.

Chichay