Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Popular Cooking Contests

By Jane Claire


Cooking competitions are zestful contests to evaluate your cooking by other people. There are those establishments having contests like these as their method of promoting their various products with prizes to the winner of course. Should you want to join a cooking battle, it is always your choice as to what type of competition you want to join. You can always look for something that captivates your interest.

Healthy Cooking Contests

Promulgating good health to the society is very beneficial and one way to do that can be through healthy cooking matches. The healthy college cookbook contest is an example of this competition. The individual who gets to go home with the bacon will have his or her recipe printed on a cookbook and even acquires that cookbook for free. Also, if the recipe that was published is listed among the 25 best recipes, a prize of $25 will be endowed.

Another cooking challenge that can promote good health is the Get Fresh With North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Recipe Contest which has four cooking categories: sides, sweets, soups and salads. The lucky winner of each category gets to have $500 cash prize.

Dessert Cooking Contests

Who doesn't love dessert? If you make a mean pecan pie, a creative coconut cake or a bodacious batch of cookies, a dessert contest is your chance to shine. Hershey's Cocoa has sponsored a classic cake-baking contest for the last twenty years. Cakes and frosting must be made from scratch and must use Hershey's cocoa. Cash prizes are offered for the winning entries, but the best prize is bragging rights for winning this prestigious competition. The Annual Sesame Street Cookie Baking Contest is another popular cooking contest. This one was featured in the 1979 Cookie Monster Storybook and, according to legend, the Cookie Monster is one of the judges of this fun cooking contest.

Vegetarian Cooking Matches

Want to win an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii? Of course you do; who wouldn't? The Blossoming Lotus restaurant in Kauai hosts a contest called, "The Most Remarkable Vegan Recipe Contest In History." The winner of this cooking contest, which requires entrants to use a recipe containing no animal products whatsoever, wins a one week trip for two to Hawaii, all expenses paid.

You can find contests to enter in magazines that specialize in food, menus, and recipes. Enter local contests first, to build your confidence. Local contests don't attract nearly as many entrants as nationwide recipe contests. Once you have a few local contests under your belt, go ahead and start entering national contests.

Finally, should you wish to boost your cooking abilities, food-related magazines showing the advanced recipes and ingredients are great sources for you to do that. To give you examples of the modern flow, you can use dishes that can instantly be served, those with low amounts of fat and meals with classy ingredients such as figs or sundried tomatoes.




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