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Miami Palmetto High School junior Azal Feghhi has her own baking business called Magicalicious which she promotes on Instagram.
“I bake cookies, specifically chocolate chip cookies and an apple cake I created the recipe for myself,” she says.
“I sell them to friends and neighbors. Within the same business, I started selling my own accessories, mainly the hair scrunchies.”
She started baking during the COVID shutdown and soon got the hang of it. Initially she baked almost every week.
Now, she bakes occasionally depending on her schedule.
Her customers are primarily friends and neighbors.
“I’ve got a neighbor who usually does it for her church. Other times it’s for celebration. The cookies I sell at school. For the cookies it’s packages of five in one bag.”
Her peak sales are around Thanksgiving and Christmas. She continues to innovate.
“I’ve been experimenting with peanut butter chips or white chocolate chips,” she says.
As for the scrunchies, sometimes she makes them for gifts. She also makes holiday themed ones, and, in the spring, she crochets them in yellow, pink, and blue.
Feghhi taught herself how to crochet a year ago by watching YouTube videos.
“I started off with bracelets, scrunchies, mini purses, and book covers,” she says.
She only sells the scrunchies because they are quick to make.
About a year ago, Feghhi created her own non-profit called Building Kids Futures for foster children who don’t have any toys. She says she has a passion for helping kids and wondered what she could do to achieve that goal.
“This passion I have for knowledge, children, and books,” she says. “What should I do with all these three things? With the help of my parents and one of my teachers. I got information, I made it happen. We eventually started making it come to life.”
In January, she coordinated a book drive that collected approximately 450 books to be donated to Book for You Miami that were then distributed to children.
She wants to try different collection drives.
Feghhi says they also collected toiletry items that they used to make toiletry kits. The kits were made for middle school girls, so they include toothpaste, small face towels, menstrual pads, hand-made scrunchies, lip balms and a bar of soap.
“We are planning on doing those types of projects, but I was just getting into it,” she says.
“We hope to get it more personal and hands-on. I was planning on making my next project about careers for children in middle school or high school. Every week I could interview someone in my family group about their careers, their pathways and how they reached where they are now. I could make weekly posts on my Instagram account.”
She plans to start with main careers such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and then branch out to the more niche ones.
While doing the other projects, she’s been writing a novel she plans to publish.
“It’s a fantasy,” she says. “A mix of Harry Potter and The Land of Stories.”
She’s been working on the book since middle school, but she just started writing it. She waited until she was satisfied she’d worked out the plot before putting words to paper.
At school, Feghhi was a member of Key Club before joining the Student Council Marketing Board as a content creator this year. She develops content for the school’s Instagram and Tik Tok accounts.
“We go around and take videos,” she says. “I’ve been to a concert, to the car parade and the competitions between the class grade, Panther Prowl. You put them all together into one video collage.”
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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