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

Latest misc from Chichay's Kitchen

Here are a few of the pastries I made recently. I haven't gotten a chance to really sort photos and get to post more here. Maybe by the end of the year!

I wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving holiday!

God bless us all!

Chef Chichay

Another Icing Smiles Cake :-)

Here is another Icing Smiles cake I delivered recently - a magician-themed cake, for an 8-yr old leukemia patient namd Oscar!:) He is sharing this cake with his brother, Isaac, who is turning 6. 

The family requested for purple, black & white colors, and the flavor eas It was all chocolate fudge! It was so fun meeting Oscar and Isaac! They are happy kids! Thank you Icing Smiles again for this wonderful opportunity to share my skills and to make children "smile"! 

Photos from the O.C. Chocolate Festival

We had so much fun during the Orange County Chocolate Festival! 

Our display table was visited by plenty of guests who admired our cakes, and inquired about our displayed products. It was nice to meet fellow chocoholics at the event!

Our demo was fun too, and we even had volunteers during the second part of the demo, where they decorated chocolate cupcakes with fondant!:-) 

Thanks to all the volunteers and to all of our friends who said hello to us at the event. Thanks to the organizers of the festival who invited us to demo and to Satin Ice for providing the delicious dark chocolate fondant for all the cakes, pastries and the demo cupcakes!:-)

Let's have some chocolate cake now!!!

Demo at the Orange County Chocolate Festival in Anaheim, CA

To all chocoholics out there, come join us at the Orange County Chocolate Festival, where you will enjoy everything chocolate! 

Chef MiaH will be one of the chefs to do various demos on stage and we will provide pastry treats to all the guests too. 

For tickets and more info, check their website too:

http://www.occhocolatefestival.com

See you there!

"The 2013 Orange County Chocolate Festival is a fun, charitable event where guests can enjoy chocolates, wine tasting and holiday gift shopping. Exhibitors and caterers will feature scrumptious chocolates, exquisite wines, and fabulous gift ideas for your enjoyment. Also enjoy live music, live cooking demonstrations, vendor attractions, and more. Bring your friends, make it a date to celebrate together." https://www.facebook.com/O.C.ChocolateFestival

Winning Purple Cupcakes for Baking Expo's Cupcake for Hope contest

Hi! I entered the "Cupcakes for Hope" Contest hosted by the International Baking Industry Exposition, in partnership with Dessert Professional and the Anita Kaufmann Foundation.
This is a campaign to promote Epilepsy Awareness. 

I spent one weekend planning the flavor profile of my purple cupcakes, then baking and decorating the cupcakes. I enjoyed the process, and a lot of my family members and friends were very supportive during the contest week, and cheered me on the whole time!:-) . It was all worth it... because my cupcakes won the contest!

I would like to thank each and everyone of you who voted for and endorsed my Purple Yam Cupcakes entry to this contest. Your support is very much appreciated!

Chichay's Kitchen

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"CUPCAKES for HOPE": Leading up to National Epilepsy Awareness Month in November, the International Baking Industry Exposition, in partnership with Dessert Professional and the Anita Kaufmann Foundation, has decided to show its support and to build seizure awareness in the baking industry. Epilepsy affects 65 million people worldwide, yet it’s one of the least understood of major chronic medical conditions. Through the “Cupcakes for Hope” contest, we hope to bring epilepsy to the forefront and demonstrate the importance of understanding this condition. - International Baking Industry Exposition, in partnership with Dessert Professional and the Anita Kaufmann Foundation

2013 OC Fair Cupcake Classics

This MOCHA COFFEE LATTE cupcake filled with caramel cream is our winning entry to the 2013 OC Fair Cupcake Classics competition! Out of hudreds of entries, our entry placed 7th!:) We are so proud! 

Luau-Themed cakes - 08/04/2013 party

Chichay's Kitchen set up a Luau-themed dessert table. There were 2 cakes (Triple Chocolate Truffle & Dark Chocolate Fudge), with all edible and handmade decors, and cupcakes (Caramel Vanilla Cream & Mocha Coffee Latte - our winning entry in the 2013 Orange County Fair cupcake competition!). Thank you to our hosts/friends! Your party was really awesome! Congratulations to an event well done!:-)  

- Chichay's Kitchen

Icing Smiles cake project for 7-11-13

Icing Smiles requested me to make a cake for a child named Mikey, who has an incurable brain cancer. The cake is part of the celebration for his 3rd year of still being the bubbly & fun Mikey after that day of diagnosis.

It was a fun and inspiring experience to meet and present to Mikey the cake! He was smiling, was excited to let us know that he knows all the game characters, and even named the sugar figures on the cake.

Hubby said "mission accomplished", because the cake made Mikey smile, and that is Icing Smiles' goal for every cake delivered!:-)

Miracle Mikey is such an inspiration to me.  He made me realize how important it is to live each day fully, to say thanks to each blessing we receive, and to BELIEVE in God's miracles.

Here are the links to Mikey's FB page and website and Icing Smiles website too:

http://www.icingsmiles.org/

http://prayer4mikey.com/about_mikey

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"Gooey Double Chocolate Cupcakes"

These moist chocolate cupcakes are fillled with milk chocolate mousse, frosted with dark chocolate ganache and topped with dark chocolate chips. The cake itself has chocolate chips too!

Happy Sweet Thursday!

Merry Christmas!:)

Just a few of our sweets for Christmas eve dinner: Flan cups, Choco Crinkle cookies, Cranberry & Triple Chocolate Scones and Pumpkin Bread Bites. Not shown here are the Creme Brullee cups we served for the finale dessert.
Merry Christmas to all!

Rainbow-themed cakes

Soccer-themed Cakes

Mocha chiffon with swiss buttercream, covered and decorated with fondant. All decors are edible!:) 

Red Velvet cakes and cupcakes with cream cheese buttercream frosting & filling!:)

Electric Guitar

All edible decorated with fondant and gumpaste, even the strings.