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hat started as two friends making cupcakes for fun has turned into something unique to the community. not many businesses have the same chemistry as Chi Chi Cupcakery. once the fun and conversation start, it doesn’t stop. When biting into an ordinary cupcake, you might expect that ordinary taste. It starts with the dry and crumbly mouthful that any pastry sitting out for 12 hours possesses. This is followed by the ashy consistency of an icing that is a bland sweetness of a pound of powdered sugar dumped into water and stirred in a mixture before thinly veiling the crumbling confection. What follows is the uncomfortable pain of in the stomach that reminds you never to follow your “gut instinct” again…yuck.
Chi Chi Cupcakes does not make ordinary cupcakes. What Christine Dinh and Ilaria Marcucci have managed to do is preserve all the good things we think about when we crave a cupcake, while leaving out all the bad. And they’ll come straight to your kitchen to cook them fresh. “Our cupcakes are different because we alter the recipe,” says Dinh. “We like to use fresh ingredients.” The Chi Chi girls moved to Ellensburg to attend Central Washington University and once introduced, the two were fast friends. making cupcakes as a hobby and handing them out to local vendors at the Ellensburg farmers market. At the time, they were known as “The Cupcake Girls.” After three months of baking cupcakes as a hobby, Dinh and Marcucci started making them to sell.
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