Cooking and Baking Club

Our club will have variety of events related to cooking and baking such as “cooking and baking for beginners”, “world cuisines”, “simple and fun breakfast” etc. We also cook and bake items for donation to local churches, nursing homes and charities (ie We provide weekly cookies to the Hope House). You can learn how to cook and/or bake, hone your cooking/baking skills, make new friends while having fun and enjoy tasty foods!

For more information, please email: info@liyouthdevelopment.org.

Announcement

Volunteer needed to help bake cookies and desserts for donating to the Hope House every Monday. If you are experienced in baking and would like to earn some community service hours, please sign up below.

  • Current Events

    Bake 4 Donation: Independently bake desserts for donation using the same recipe

  • Past Events

    Bake cookies and desert for fundraising on the first Chinese New Year Show organized by LICS & LIYD, Jan 24, 2026 - raised $200

    Bake sticky rice cakes for AAAGSB Annual Art Show Award Ceremony and other events 2024-2026

    Bake cookies and desert for fundraising on the Port Jefferson Dragon Boat Festival, Sep 2023-2026 - raised over $800 in total

    Donate deserts to gallery north for the opening ceremony of Prof Qin Han’s art show, 9/29/2022

    Bake cookies and desert for LIYD racers on the Port Jefferson Dragon Boat Festival, 9/17/2022

    Bake cookies and cupcakes for LIYD anniversary party, 7/31/2022

  • Sarah Wu, Founder and President

    Sarah Wu is in the Class of 2027 at WMHS. Among her many hobbies, she enjoys exercising, cooking and baking besides tennis. In her spare time, Sarah browses the internet for various recipes to cook and bake. Outside of cooking and baking, Sarah plays the clarinet and piano. She will in all state symphonic band 2026 playing clarinet. Sarah has received the President’s Voluntary Service Gold Award for 2022-2025, Brookhaven Town Youth Award and Suffolk County Youth Week Award. In the future, she wishes to become a doctor in order to help the people in need.

  • Bella Li, President

    Bella Li is in the Class of 2028 at Gelinas Junior High School. Outside of school, she spends lots of time dancing, and has danced for 10 years. This is currently her 5th year on the competition team at dance. She also has played the violin for 5 years. Bella is part of the Tri-M Honors Society and LISFA. She enjoys baking a wide variety of baked goods, cooking and learning new recipes, and reading about crime cases in her free time.

  • Arianna Yang, Vice President

    Arianna Yang is in the class of 2029 at the Ward Melville HighSchool. She enjoys competitive swimming, debate, and is currently a vocalist at the Manhattan School of Music. This is her seventh year of competitive swimming in the pool, and her sixth year studying vocal. She has been awarded the PVSA gold award (2025) and TVVSA Gold award (2026). Outside of school, she also enjoys making and eating different desserts.