to find that really unique, artful, affordable gift or stocking stuffer. Or come show off your great cookie baking skills in the Second Annual Season’s Best Cookie Competition during the Solstice Party on Sunday.
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Season’s Best Cookie Competition
Contact Kristie Bernard k_ber@hotmail.com to enter.
This weekend, join in the second annual ‘Season’s Best Cookie’ competition! Enter your own fanciful cookie creations and cherished family recipes. This will be a FUN contest with first, second and third prize ribbons, and chef related PRIZES too!
To enter (no entry fee) contact k_ber@hotmail.com. Entries will be limited to the first twelve unique cookie entry submissions received (no chocolate chip). Please be prepared to bake at least two dozen.
Be bold. Be creative. Most importantly, have fun!
The cookie competition will be held as part of the Winter Solstice Party at the Second Annual Rocky Neck Art Colony Holiday Art & Craft Show, this Sunday, December 21 from 2 – 4PM at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street.
All are invited to enjoy the pleasures of Holiday cookies, good food and wine as you explore gift ideas from among exquisite wearable and functional art pieces, sparkling jewelry, colorful pottery, exciting photographs and paintings, books, cards, calendars and more. Celebrate the Sun’s return and longer days as you shop locally away from the malls!
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Fear Not, Be Brave, Creative and Bold
We need a few more entrants for the Season’s Best Cookie Competition during the Winter Solstice Party at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on December 21st. We think that some great cookie bakers out there may be afraid to enter because of the judges.
You should know that this is a blind competition, so the judges will not know whose cookies they are judging until the competition is finished.
About the judges.
Ed Collard is one of the most fair and impartial judges I have ever had the honor of working food competitions with. He likes to eat, knows what he likes, but is open to trying anything and everything, and is a master at determining excellent criteria for judging and having fun.
Mayor Carolyn Kirk is also a fair and impartial judge who really likes cookies and wants to have fun on her birthday. She has worked really hard for us and deserves some fun and good cookies to eat on her birthday.
Sister Felicia, now this could be the judge that is striking fear into the hearts of some would-be entrants. But fear not, be brave, creative and bold and enter your best cookie, confident in the knowledge that you can impress even the renowned queen of Sicilian cooking – just don’t bake Italian cookies unless you are really sure you know what you’re doing!
Go for it! Email Gigi at gigimederos@gmail.com or me at khanstudio@comcast.net with your name and the type of cookie you will enter (remember, no chocolate chip). Entrants will be asked to bring their dozen cookies in before the judges arrive on 12/21 at 2:00 to begin judging. They do not have to be holiday cookies. NEWS FLASH: All entrants in the Season’s Best Cookie Competition will be eligible to attend a free group cookie baking class with Sister Felicia!
E.J. Lefavour
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“Got Milk?” RNAC’s “Season’s Best Cookie Competition”
Saturday, December 21, 2:00PM
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
As part of the Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival, the Winter Solstice Party on Saturday, December 21 will feature a “Season’s Best Cookie Competition”. Any kind of home-baked cookie may be entered, except chocolate chip – everyone makes good chocolate chip cookies – as we are looking for competitors to come up different, unique and prize-winning entries.
The first prize winner of the cookie competition will become the proud owner of this hand-painted silk scarf by Adriana Mederos, titled “Got Milk?” This beautiful scarf depicts Shortbread, Anise, Oatmeal-Raisin, Linzerkuchen, Chocolate-dipped Diamonds, Biscotti, Baklava, Sugar Cookies, Snowball, Mandelkuchen, Macaroons, Almond Mezzalune, Polvorones, Pizzelle and Crinkles. There is also a First Place Blue Ribbon painted on the scarf to memorialize the winner’s proud achievement.
There will also be 2nd and 3rd place prizes, as well as prizes for “best presentation” and “classic”.
First prize – “Got Milk?” hand-painted scarf
Second prize – limited edition trivet
Third prize – set of Ice Box Bling
“Best Presentation” and “Classic” prize winners will receive notecard sets
The cookie competition will be judged by the Honorable and Venerable Judges Ed Collard (renowned master of food competition judging), Mayor Carolyn Kirk (whose birthday is December 21, so come help celebrate her birthday by bringing your well wishes and most awesome cookies for her to judge), and Sister Felicia Ciaramitaro (the Cape Ann Queen of culinary delights, so bring on your absolute best).
We are hoping to have some unique and festive cookie entries, such as those depicted on this delectable scarf, but bakers are encouraged to enter what they know to be their best cookie (again, no chocolate chip). If you would like to enter the competition, please email gigimederos@gmail.com with “cookie competition entry” in the subject line and your name, type of cookie you plan to enter, and your phone number in the email body. Entries will be limited to the first twelve unique cookie entry submissions received (we want to have diversity and be considerate of the judges’ waistlines, and eating more than 12 cookies isn’t in anyone’s diet). Please be prepared to bake at least two-dozen cookies, for the judges and party attendees to taste and enjoy.
Also, RNAC is considering creating a Best Cookies calendar as a fundraiser for 2015 which would include the recipes, bakers’ credit and photos of the 12 cookie entries. Please indicate in your email entry if you are willing to share your recipe and have it included in the calendar, if we go forward with producing it.
E.J. Lefavour
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