{"id":2031,"date":"2010-09-22T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T22:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2010-09-22T16:52:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T22:52:01","slug":"let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may-theyll-come-up-winners-if-theyre-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2010\/09\/22\/let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may-theyll-come-up-winners-if-theyre-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the chips fall where they may \u2013 they\u2019ll come up winners if they\u2019re chocolate!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marina Castle, First Place, Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThese certainly weren\u2019t your grandmother\u2019s Hershey-variety chocolate chip cookies. Competitors in the Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookie & Brownie competition held Sept. 18 used plenty of exotic ingredients in their winning recipes.
\nTake for example, First-Place winner Marina Castle\u2019s Decadence Chocolate Chip Cookies. The North Hollywood resident and Culinary Styles competitor since 1985 added mocha cappuccino mix, instant chocolate pudding mix, chopped malted milk balls to up the decadence quotient 10-fold.
\nSecond-Place winner Monine Zerby of West Covina added dried pineapple and chopped roasted, salted macadamia nuts to her aptly named Tropical Chip Cookies.
\nCathy Hagerty-Clemens of Fullerton placed Third with Mouth-Warming Chocolate Chip Cookies that got their heat from a \u00bc teaspoon of cayenne pepper. Instant coffee granules and bittersweet chocolate chips added distinct flavors.
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Cathy Hagerty-Clemens, First Place, Brownies<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nHagerty-Clemens added another win \u2013 First Place for her Dark Chocolate Caramel Cashew Brownie \u2013 a recipe that included 40 caramels and chopped cashews for the topping.
\nCastle won another ribbon, Second Place, for her Raspberry-Almond Brownie Cups that were served a la cupcakes in wrappers.
\nCaramel starred again in Kelly Hagerty-Clemens\u2019 Sweet Chloe\u2019s Favorite Ooie Gooie Caramel Pecan Brownies that earned the Lake Havasu City, Ariz., resident Third Place.
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Winners of the Brownie competition at the 2010 L.A. County Fair were, from left, Cathy Hagerty-Clemens of Fullerton, first place; Marina Castle of North Hollywood, second place, and Kelly Hagerty-Clemens of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., third place. <\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Winners of the Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookie competition at the 2010 L.A. County Fair were, from left, Marina Castle of North Hollywood, first place; Monine Zerby of West Covina, second place, and Cathy Hagerty-Clemens of Fullerton, third place.<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These certainly weren\u2019t your grandmother\u2019s Hershey-variety chocolate chip cookies. Competitors in the Blue Ribbon Chocolate Chip Cookie & Brownie competition held Sept. 18 used plenty of exotic ingredients in their winning recipes. Take for example, First-Place winner Marina Castle\u2019s Decadence Chocolate Chip Cookies. The North Hollywood resident and Culinary Styles competitor since 1985 added mocha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,14],"tags":[225,250,253],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-competitions","category-food","category-funatthefair","tag-contests","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-styles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}