{"id":1841,"date":"2010-09-12T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2010-09-12T11:49:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T17:49:04","slug":"cupcake-war-and-cheesecake-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2010\/09\/12\/cupcake-war-and-cheesecake-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupcake War (and cheesecake, too!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The waiting is the worst. Pacing back and forth, back and forth. Wide eyes darting to and fro. Deep sighs heard every few minutes. For crying out loud, waiting for the birth of a child isn’t this nerve wracking! So goes the judging at the cooking competitions at the L.A. County Fair. Every year domestic chefs of all levels enter their best dishes in the Fair’s Culinary Styles<\/span> <\/a>contests, vying for the coveted Blue Ribbon and bragging rights for the best pie, cookies, pizza, chili, even tamale!
\nTwo popular competitions were held recently. The cheesecake competition was fierce! You’d think secret info on the Governor’s race was on the line the way spectators (and contestants) rubber-necked and eavesdropped on the judges while they tasted the sweet and savory entries. In the end, Chef Leslie, the new Culinary Styles coordinator and proprietor of the Young Chef’s Academy in Claremont<\/span><\/a>, and her crew of experts chose the following winners:
\nSweet cheescake:
\nFirst place – Ann Turley of Walnut with an apricot layered cheesecake.
\nSecond place – Arlene Tayor of West Covina.
\nThird place – Dina Fernandez with a lemon cheesecake.
\nSavory cheesecake:
\nFirst place – April Burton of Rowland Heights with a chicken and salsa cheesecake.
\nSecond place – Rebecca Mourer of La Habra with a roasted garlic and seafood cheesecake.
\nThird place – Peggy Linberg of Upland with a salmon cheesecake.
\nOn Sept. 11, cupcakes were the delight of the day. The Cupcake Baking Contest yielded 16 entries, all looking fantastic. The winners are:
\nFirst place – Brooke Armijo of Pomona with a lemon blueberry cupcake filled with blueberry compote and topped with lemon creamcheese frosting. (Yum!).
\nSecond place – Lauren Porter of Upland (Brooke’s sister. Who’s their mother and how did she teach them to bake so well?!) with a cinammon toast crunch cupcake.
\nThird place – Heide Ojeisekhoba of Upland with a pumpkin cupcake.
\n
\nLots more culinary contests are coming up like Enchilada, guacamole, Ghirardelli, big baking and leftover turkey. We’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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