Heny Sison, popularly known as Chef Heny, is a pastry chef

Pastry chef

A pastry chef or pâtissier is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods...

, cake decorator

Cake decorating

Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative elements to make otherwise plain cakes more visually interesting...

, and television host in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

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Early life

Sison started working as an economic researcher and financial analyst. She enrolled in culinary classes to cultivate her interest in baking and cake decorating. She eventually resigned and started a business making birthday and wedding cakes as well as teaching baking and cake decorating.

Culinary school

In 1985, Sison opened the Heny Sison School of Cake Decorating and Baking. Later, she renamed it to Heny Sison Culinary School after adding cooking classes to her regular baking repertoire to provide a more comprehensive culinary education. Today, her school holds recreational short courses and months-long culinary programs for serious culinary professionals. She has a pool of full-time and part-time chef-instructors specializing in Philippine, Asian, and European cuisine, among others.

Culinary training

Sison trained in various elements of cake decorating and baking at the Wilton School of Cake Decorating and Confectionery in Woodridge, Illinois

Illinois

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; L'Academie de Cuisine in Bethesda, Maryland

Maryland

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; Maid of Scandinavia in Minneapolis under Roland Winbeckler, Marsha Winbeckler and Marie Grainger; the Culinary Institute of America

Culinary Institute of America

The Culinary Institute of America is a non-profit culinary college located in Hyde Park USA, founded in 1946. The CIA also has branch campuses in St. Helena, California, and San Antonio, Texas, as well as a campus in Singapore. It is a not-for-profit academic institution of higher learning...

 at Greystone, Napa Valley and Draeger's Culinary Center in California.

Media exposure

Sison hosts a Sunday cooking show entitled A Taste of Life with Heny Sison aired on IBC-13 Television Network. She writes for culinary magazines and newspaper features. She has endorsed dairy products in television and print advertisements. Sison has also appeared either as a judge, commentator, or host in cooking competitions televised nationwide.

She has a new show, "Heny's Kitchen", aired every Sunday on QTV 11 at 8:30 a.m.

Business interests

Sison is a Director of Petal Craft International, a firm which conducts training in the design of sugar flowers for export and local markets. She is also a Director of Cake Art International, a retailer and wholesaler of confectionery, baking and cake decorating supplies.

Organizational affiliations

Sison is a member of the International Cake Exploration Society and the Bread Bakers Guild of America.

Clientele

Sison is famous for having baked wedding cakes of actresses Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski and Ruffa Gutierrez

Ruffa Gutiérrez

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External links

• Heny Sison Culinary School
• IBC-13 Television Network