The goal of this event is to bring families and friends together in the kitchen and out to the beach to make memories and a little bit of our own history!
Participants must make one recipe's worth for judging and an additional recipe's worth to be sold at the Museum's Large Bake Sale, a centerpiece of the Chocolate Festival. All sales benefit the Moclips Depot Rebuilding Project.
The Chocolate Baking Contest will take place in the "Hall of
Sweets" (Pacific Beach Elementary Gym) on 4th Street in Pacific Beach,
WA at noon on Saturday, February 14th, 2009.
Division and Categories
Entries are open to everyone. There
are several divisions and categories so the entire family can enter.
Professionals and amateurs will be judged separately. Categories
include: Desserts (cakes and pies), Baked Goods (brownies, bars,
cookies), & Sweets (truffles, candy, fudge, etc.)
Entry Fees
Entry fees are per entry. Contestants may enter multiple categories.
The fees are to help offset the cost of trophies, plaques, and
certificates. Professional Division: $25 per entry. General Division: $5 per entry. Kids (ages 10-16): no fee. Children (under 10): no fee. Professional entries, fees are due with the application by January 31st, 2009. General and Kids/Children's entries, fees are due on the day of the event. Checks can be made out to: Museum of the North Beach.
Recipes
All entrants will submit recipes along with their baked
goods. These recipes will be collected and later turned into
cookbooks. (Professionals may decline to publish their recipes.) All
proceeds from the cookbooks will go to the Museum of the North Beach
and the Moclips Depot Project. Entrants are encouraged to tell a brief
story about their recipes. For example, an entrant from Kids or
Children might write about his/her grandma's cookies. Be creative and
have fun!
Entry fees are per entry. Contestants may enter multiple categories.
The fees are to help offset the cost of trophies, plaques, and
certificates.
