Baking Your Dreams Come True

Chef Charity grew up in Southern California, as the oldest of 6 children. Charity damaged not one, but 2 Easy Bake Ovens as a child before her mother decided to teach her how to use the “big” oven. By age 12 she had tapped out her mother and grandmother’s cooking knowledge and hit the books as she wanted to know more. She went to culinary school in Paris, France at Le Ritz Escoffier, although she didn’t finish her degree there. She ended up finishing her degree at Grossmont College in Pastry Arts.

Chef Charity is the Pastry Chef and Cake Artist for Nailed It! on Netflix.  She’s the magic hands that makes all the cakes and other treats the contestants attempt to copy in the show. Charity specializes in chocolate and sugar art particularly with regards to wedding, specialty and extreme cakes. Charity is also President of the Board of Directors for Icing Smiles. Icing Smiles is a non-profit organization that provides custom celebration cakes and other treats to families impacted by the critical illness or medical crisis of a child. Charity owns d’Zrt Cake Studio, and resides with her 3 children in San Diego, CA.

Aside from all her work on Nailed It!, Charity has been a contestant on TLC’s Ultimate Cake Off, was featured on TLC’s Fabulous Cakes and the Niecy Nash Wedding Bash. On Food Network Charity has appeared on Cake Wars and Halloween Wars (season 2, 5 & 7), and she was featured on the pilot episode of SugarDome that aired as a special of Cupcake Wars.