{"id":2107,"date":"2010-09-26T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2010-09-26T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:20:30","slug":"life-is-sweet-for-karo-perfect-pie-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2010\/09\/26\/life-is-sweet-for-karo-perfect-pie-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is sweet for Karo Perfect Pie Contest winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a county fair without pie contests?\u00a0We\u2019ve had many mouthwatering competitions, and it\u2019s been my great pleasure to cover them.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2129\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1ST-PEGGY-LINBERG4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2129\" title=\"1ST-PEGGY LINBERG\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/1ST-PEGGY-LINBERG4-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peggy Linberg of Upland won First Place with her Hawaiian Sunshine Pie.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSaturday night the Karo Perfect Pie Contest took the cake for yumminess.<br \/>\nPeggy Linberg of Upland brought a bit of <em>aloha<\/em> to Culinary Styles with her First Place-winning Hawaiian Sunshine Pie. The crushed shortbread cookie crust was filled with two luscious layers: mango chunks, Karo light corn syrup and coconut rum topped by a passionfruit puree cream cheese layer with rum-flavored whipped cream piping. Judges praised its \u201cgreat presentation, good texture and unique crust.\u201d<br \/>\nApril Burton of Rowland Heights took Second Place with her well-named Super Delicious Pecan and Cream Cheese Pie that just oozed creamy sweetness that earned \u201csuper delish!\u201d from the judges.<br \/>\nFullerton resident Cathy Hagerty-Clemens\u2019 Caramel Apple Pie With Candied Pecans won Third Place. Noting on her recipe that this was her sister\u2019s favorite pie, judges agreed by saying it had the best crust they had enjoyed, adding a rave for \u201cthe good apple flavor and texture.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2128\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2ND-APRIL-BURTON3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2128 \" title=\"2ND-APRIL BURTON\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2ND-APRIL-BURTON3-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Burton of Rowland Heights won Second Place with her Super Delicious Pecan and Cream Cheese Pie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2130\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/3RD-CATHY-P.-HAGERTY-CLEMENS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2130 \" title=\"3RD-CATHY P. HAGERTY-CLEMENS\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/3RD-CATHY-P.-HAGERTY-CLEMENS2-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy P. Hagerty-Clemens of Fullerton won Third Place with her Caramel Apple Pie with Candied Pecans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a county fair without pie contests?\u00a0We\u2019ve had many mouthwatering competitions, and it\u2019s been my great pleasure to cover them. Saturday night the Karo Perfect Pie Contest took the cake for yumminess. Peggy Linberg of Upland brought a bit of aloha to Culinary Styles with her First Place-winning Hawaiian Sunshine Pie. The crushed shortbread&hellip;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-competitions","category-food","category-funatthefair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","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=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}