Home Sweet Home Amateur Bake-Off Contest
Are You an Aspiring Dessert Chef?
Here’s your chance to compete in the First Home Sweet Home Amateur Bake-Off Contest, sponsored by the Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (www.CHAFund.org), how2heroes and the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. This contest is for non-professional chefs (please refer to the complete rules, details, and entry form at www.how2heroes.com). DEADLINE FOR ENTRY: September 12th, 2011.
DESSERT COMPETITION CATEGORIES (must choose one category per recipe entry):
- PIES & TARTS
- ANYTHING CHOCOLATE
- COOKIES
- CAKES & CUPCAKES
- BEST LOCAL INGREDIENTS DESSERT (view complete rules for details)
- GRAND PRIZE - JUDGES’ BEST IN SHOW!
Our Celebrity Judges include: Lee Napoli (owner of Chocolee Chocolates and founder of New England's first and only association for pastry professionals), Clara Silverstein (author of three cookbooks including The Boston Chefs Table, The New England Soup Factory and A White House Garden Cookbook, and a long-time food writer in the Boston area) and Lynne Viera (President & CEO, how2heroes). The top ten desserts in each of the food categories will be invited to a preliminary judging by a separate tasting committee of Boston area food bloggers to be held at the how2heroes offices in Cambridge, MA on September 21st, 2011. The top three finalists per category will prepare their entries for the Celebrity Judge tasting at the Home Sweet Home Event on October 22nd, 2011 at the Cambridge Hyatt Regency. Prizes to be announced on the how2heroes website.
The Grand Prize for Judge's Choice:
- A pastry class with Master Pastry Chef Delphin Gomes, New England’s only French master pastry chef at The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts (CSCA)
- Star in your own how2heroes video making your winning dish which will be featured on how2heroes.com and in their weekly newsletter
- $250 gift certificate to Kitchenwares in Boston. Other prizes will be awarded to the top three finalists in each category.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? START SEARCHING FOR YOUR WINNING DESSERT RECIPE!
Thank you to our food blogger preliminary judges:
Megan Chromik - www.megan-deliciousdishings.blogspot.com
Chelsee Adams and Susie Anderson - www.wearenotmartha.com
Jennifer Che - www.tinyurbankitchen.com
Jessie Zubatkin - www.myuncleskitchen.com
Meghan McGarry - www.butrcreamblondi.blogspot.com