Baker with Hawaii ties showcases desserts with island-flare on a national stage

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A enterprise proprietor with Hawaii ties is showcasing her love for the islands on the nationwide stage one dessert at a time.

And also you might need seen her work this week on a daytime discuss present.

Baker Dena Lumbang’s love of the islands took her all the best way to New York Metropolis as a visitor on “The Drew Barrymore Present.”

“I’ve cried and screamed a number of occasions due to all this,” stated Lumbang. “However it’s positively been, you understand, a as soon as in a lifetime expertise that I’m perpetually grateful for.”

Lumbang and her household stay in Sacramento, California, however her husband is from Oahu and her mother and father additionally grew up right here. She’s all the time cherished baking and needed her personal enterprise.

After a visit again to Hawaii in 2019, she determined to create “Kalani Kakes,” impressed by island flavors and a well-known film filmed proper right here on Oahu.

“I named my menu after ‘50 First Dates’ as a result of it’s our favourite film and we’d all the time watch it once we would miss being in Hawaii,” she stated.

She now has 10 flavors impressed by the film’s characters.

“Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, after all, are the celebs so I named the guava cupcake after Adam Sandler, which is Henry Roth, and the Pineapple Cupcake after Drew’s character, which is Lucy Whitmore. However I named it after the music ‘Forgetful Lucy,’” Lumbang stated.

“I actually needed to thank Drew and Adam for uplifting me and when she got here out with the TV present, I simply knew at some point I’m going to fulfill her. I simply realize it.”

Lumbang sat within the viewers of Barrymore’s present final 12 months.

Producers cherished her story and stored in contact and invited her again as a visitor.

“I already felt the love and assist from the group,” Lumbang stated. “And now that I’m getting extra of the response from folks like everywhere in the nation, it’s simply it’s actually validation for me that that is my calling.”

And she or he obtained an enormous enhance to assist broaden her enterprise: a $15,000 examine from Blue Diamond Almond Breeze.

“I believed how a lot? I imply, how a lot better might it get? I didn’t go in there with any expectations,” she stated.

Lumbang is deciding how she’ll use the cash.

For now, she’s busy with orders from throughout the nation and spreading aloha in Northern California. And she or he’s standing by to listen to from one other acquainted face.

“Properly, I’m nonetheless ready for Adam Sandler to name me,” stated Lumbang with amusing. “I’ve to thank him, too.”

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