Second Place in Burgmann Food Festival!
I won second place in the Burgmann College Food Festival for my Chocolate Chip Cookies!
(First prize went to Spicy Chicken Wings.)
For second place I won a tea set for two.
Don’t ask me, apparently there was a Mother’s Day leftover sale. First place prize was a a large plate?! The third place prize was a bottle of wine. Maybe I should have made the cookies just a little bit worse ;-)
May 14th, 2007 at 1:25 am
They give out prizes now!? I totally left college too early…
(And congratulations by the way! I think you should share the recipe with the interwebs…)
May 14th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Yes, fantastic prizes, like plates and tea sets. You definitely left too early ;-)
You want me to just give away my secret, my awarding winning recipe, so that others can just create cheap knock offs, and I have to come up with another fantastic show stopping confection for the next festival?!
Ok, here it is:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Award-Winning-Soft-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies/Detail.aspx
May 14th, 2007 at 4:50 am
You actually searched for ‘award winning cookies’ to find that recipe, did you not?
At least they lived up to their name.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:53 am
I’ve made these a few times now and they always turn out great (if you follow the recipe exactly).
They have over 3,000 five star reviews on Allrecipes.com, so they were a fairly safe bet.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:20 am
You might be able to handle a cookie, but can you master the ANZAC biscuit?
May 21st, 2007 at 12:19 am
Congrats on both the tea set and the marathon (bigger congratulations on the marathon). I’m afraid I haven’t checked your blog in a while and I missed out on your spring news so I’m a little late…
May 21st, 2007 at 11:34 am
Hi Westerly,
Thanks!
In the end I was able to trade the tea set for the big plate. It’s not particularly exciting enough to blog about though.
I have to admit I haven’t been keeping up with little Sofia’s blog either, but it’s now added to my google rss feed reader.
Sofia’s getting big! Looks like she’s walking around and making a fine mess of her food :-)
Do you get to be a stay at home Mom? Or do you have to go back to work?
July 31st, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I did not know you were such a talented cooker. We missed the cookies party at MLE!!
August 1st, 2007 at 1:23 am
Thanks Cati!
Haha, I was a pretty terrible chef until I got to Australia and became vegetarian. Then I was forced to go beyond spaghetti with tuna :-)
Actually, my secret is allrecipies.com, any recipe 500+ positive reviews has always turned out great.
August 12th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Yes Sam, I agree, you should have made the cookies slighly worse, coz you traded your prize with the first prize later anyway! ;-)
By the way, I love the picture of the chef on the top left of this page… It’s so funny! Do you usually look like this while cooking?
I still can’t believe they actually gave away this beautiful tea set! It must have cost them a fortune!!! ;-)
August 12th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Ah, so this is what the “break up” teaset looks like eh. Need to get meselves one of these!