Dear friends of Delcie’s,

We have finally come to the end of the mad rushing for this Christmas. While enjoying our cup of coffee and patting our own shoulders for a job well done,  we would like to wish you and your family a blessed and joyful Christmas while enjoying our healthy cakes at the parties!

Should there be any unhappiness caused due to delays or changes in the deliveries or collection, we are truly sorry about it and hope you’ll forgive us. ;(

But most importantly, we hope you’ve enjoyed our cakes as much as we have enjoyed ourselves baking them for you. Let us all spread the good joy of Delcie’s healthy cakes to your all your friends and families! ;D

Cheers with lots of love,
Delcie

A friend sent me the follow story on Christmas and I thought it is too beautiful a story not to share… Enjoy.

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The Tradition
Story posted by Chris Cade | Short Christmas Stories on Dec 21, 2009 in Inspirational Christmas Stories — Author Unknown

It’s just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so.

It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas—oh, not the true meaning of Christmas, but the commercial aspects of it- overspending… the frantic running around at the last minute to get a tie for Uncle Harry and the dusting powder for Grandma—the gifts given in desperation because you couldn’t think of anything else. Knowing he felt this way, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so forth. I reached for something special just for Mike. The inspiration came in an unusual way.

Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was wrestling at the junior level at the school he attended; and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner-city church, mostly black. These youngsters, dressed in sneakers so ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in their spiffy blue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes. As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler?ears. It was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford.

Well, we ended up walloping them. We took every weight class. And as each of their boys got up from the mat, he swaggered around in his tatters with false bravado, a kind of street pride that couldn’t knowledge defeat.

Mike, seated beside me, shook his head sadly, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them.” Mike loved kids-all kids-and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball and lacrosse.

That’s when the idea for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought an assortment of wrestling headgear and shoes and sent them anonymously to the inner-city church. On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his gift from me. His smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in succeeding years. For each Christmas, I followed the tradition—one year sending a group of mentally handicapped youngsters to a hockey game, another year a check to a pair of elderly brothers whose home had burned to the ground the week before Christmas, and on and on.

The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas. It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning and our children, ignoring their new toys, would stand with wide-eyed anticipation as their dad lifted the envelope from the tree to reveal its contents. As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but the envelope never lost its allure. The story doesn’t end there.

You see, we lost Mike last year due to dreaded cancer. When Christmas rolled around, I was still so wrapped in grief that I barely got the tree up. But Christmas Eve found me placing an envelope on the tree, and in the morning, it was joined by three more. Each of our children, unbeknownst to the others, had placed an envelope on the tree for their dad. The tradition has grown and someday will expand even further with our grandchildren standing around the tree with wide- eyed anticipation watching as their fathers take down the envelope. Mike’s spirit, like the Christmas spirit, will always be with us.

– Author Unknown

A quick photo I took with my IPhone before it’s gone.

Because we know there will be last min orders, so we are going to prepare in advance a few extra cakes for just in case.

We have:

• 1x  Gold Choc Log Cake
• 2 boxes Mini Logs
• 2  x 8″ Gold Choc

Call 90038823 to reserve before it’s really too late!

Let’s say if you are not able to get our Christmas cakes this year, don’t worry before we will have plenty of Chinese New Year goodies and cookies coming up next in 2011!!

Be sure to stay close to our website.

Hooray!

With our exclusive organic dark chocolate that melts in your mouth, it runs down your throat with a delightful bitterness that will please every chocoholics in the room. This will be the only chocolate cake where its natural sweetness works wonder for all young and old. Sprinkle with gold dust, you know you’re paying not only for a good cake, but one that saves you on the calories too. Until you finished your last mouthful of our Gold Choc, you’ll be overwhelmed by how much chocolate you’ve eaten with feeling guilty at all.

The best guilt-free chocolate cake you’ve ever eaten!

1.4kg, 4″ x 8″ log size – SGD140

So this year, we are pleased to present you 3 different Christmas varieties that will sure entice your taste buds without you feeling guilty. Plus, we have ice-cream cake too!

Why choose Delcie’s Guilt-Free Cakes?

1. Trans-Fat Free – we do not use any saturated fats
2. Low in Cholesterol – we do not use any eggs or dairy in our baking
3. Vegan safe – we do not use any animal by-product
4. Halal – suitable for all Muslim friends
5. Low in Calories – we practice low sugar formulas and is the only diabetic friendly bakery in Singapore
6. Heart Healthy – we use organic brown rice milk that is enriched with calcium (seaweed)
7. High in Fiber – by using fruits and unbleached wholemeal flour
8. High in Antioxidant – we use 100% organic dark chocolate (70% dark)
9. Low in G.I. – we use organic agave to naturally sweeten our Diabetic-Friendly cakes
10. Support Green Living – we use organic ingredients in our baking
11. Home baked taste – we bake every cake without using machine
12. Great Taste – only at Delcie’s, our healthy cakes can taste sin-lessly good too

There is more!
From now till end of December 2010, with any minimum purchase of SGD100 worth of cakes from us, we will send you for a complimentary wellness retreat at Atos Wellness! (While stock last)

What are you waiting for?
Before everything is sold out, place your order HERE.

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Ice-Cream Fruit Cake SGD118
For a brand new experience from the traditional fruit cake, try our egg-free, dairy-free vanilla ice-cream cake topped with mix fruits (kiwi, raisins, cashew, apricot and cranberry). This is definitely a crowd-pleaser and a calorie saver.

Pure Gold Choc SGD95
A Christmas edition to our traditional Mud Fudge cake, this cake comes with fruits decoration and is baked with low G.I. sweetener.  This is the only chocolate cake in Singapore that taste better than your Lana’s cake and yet, it is also low in calories, low in cholesterol and trans-fat free! If you’re trying to please a woman, this cake is definitely baked to impress. Who can ever resist chocolates.

16 Mini Logs SGD68 per gift set
Comes in 2 flavours – walnut and cranberry, this row of 16 mini log cakes is a perfect gift for your friends or colleagues. However, we foresee that you may just end up keeping all 16 for yourself because these mini cakes are just too tempting. Once eaten, the fudgy chocolate base will definitely make you beg for more!