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A Beloved Dessert Reinvented! Carrot Cream Cheese Ice Cream Bar Recipe
Wins $25,000 Grand Prize In Scharffen Berger Adventure Contest
HERSHEY, Pa., April 8, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scharffen
Berger Chocolate Maker today announces the winners of The Chocolate
Adventure Contest 2013. As part of the contest, culinary adventurers
at all skill levels were invited to develop an original bar recipe
using Scharffen Berger Chocolate and at least one of twelve "Adventure
Ingredients." Home cook Carolyn Beard from Frisco, Texas won the
$25,000 Grand Prize for her original Carrot Cream Cheese Ice Cream
Bars recipe- a refreshing and inventive ice cream based interpretation
of a classic, beloved American dessert.
The Carrot Cream Cheese Ice Cream Bars recipe consists of creamy,
handmade carrot-puree infused ice cream shaped into square bars. Each
entire bar is covered in a "shell" of melted Scharffen Berger 62%
Semisweet Chocolate Chunks mixed with coconut oil.
"I love Scharffen Berger chocolate and the Chocolate Adventure
Contest. And I love the excitement of working with adventure
ingredients," said Beard. "I kept thinking about what to do with
carrots. Once I landed on the idea of carrot cream cheese ice cream
bars, I couldn't wait to try to make them."
The star-studded judging panel included some of the country's foremost
baking and chocolate experts: John Scharffenberger, founder of
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker; Alice Medrich, award-winning
cookbook author and chocolate expert; Matt Armendariz, food
photographer and owner of MattBites blog; Angie Dudley, owner of
Bakerella blog and creator and author of Cake Pops; and Marcia
Gagliardi, founder of Tablehopper.com.
"This year's winning recipe reflects the essence of The Chocolate
Adventure Contest: an inventiveness and risk-taking in recipe
creation, an ingenious concept and flawless execution with delicious
results," said Alice Medrich, whose most recent best-selling cookbooks
are Seriously Bittersweet, Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy
Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies and Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts.
In addition to the Grand-Prize-Winning recipe, the following 14
Culinary Honorees were recognized for recipes that embodied a spirit
of adventure and a creative use of ingredients:
-- BCC Banana Mousse-icle Bars, Vivian Graves-Myers, Norris, Tennessee
-- The Bollywood Bar, Deb Stoner, Portland, Oregon
-- Carrot Coconut Joy Bars, Maria Rokas, San Francisco, California
-- Hot Toddy Bourbon-Caramel Ice Cream Bars with Chocolate, Hazelnuts,
and Sea Salt, Jennifer Burke, San Francisco, California
-- Whiskey Business Bars, Jennifer Kenny Nguyen, San Francisco,
California
-- Thai Nougat Bars, Rachelle Ferneau, Potomac, Maryland
-- Chocolate-Covered Coconut Kaya Ice Cream Bars with Salty Sesame
Dust, Edwina Gadsby, Hayden, Idaho
-- Spicy Glazed Ramen Sesame Bars, Deb Stoner, Portland, Oregon
-- Fruitti D'Italia Chocolate Bark, Rachelle Ferneau, Potomac,
Maryland
-- Caye Caulker Candy Bars, Patterson Watkins, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
-- No-Bake Chocolate Covered Crouton Toffee, Barbara Eastabrook,
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
-- Chocolate Pandemonium Pistachio Halvah, Susan Asonovic, Wilton,
Connecticut
-- Pandan in Paradise Bars, Liz Saidi, Los Angeles, California
-- Bourbon Street Pudding Bars, Richard Swanson, Waterford,
Connecticut
Carolyn Beard receives a $25,000 cash prize, a custom selection of
Scharffen Berger Chocolate and copies ofAlice Medrich'sSeriously
Bittersweet and John Scharffenberger and Robert Steinberg'sThe Essence
of Chocolate. Each Culinary Honoree receives a special Scharffen
Berger Chocolate engraved Apple iPad@ Mini. (Note: iPad@ is a
registered trademark of Apple, Inc. Apple, Inc. is not a sponsor and
has no affiliation with this contest.) The grand prize winning recipe
will be featured on ChocolateAdventureContest.com, ScharffenBerger.com
and TuttiFoodie.com.
For additional information about The Chocolate Adventure Contest 2013,
plus this year's grand-prize winning recipe, please visit
www.ChocolateAdventureContest.com.
Learn more about Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker at
www.ScharffenBerger.com.
About Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker Scharffen Berger Chocolate
Maker was established in 1997 in San Francisco, California, and first
earned national recognition for its artisan-quality chocolate in
1998. Producing bean to bar premium chocolates, Scharffen Berger
Chocolate Maker is one of the world's finest chocolate makers. All
Scharffen Berger chocolate is composed of proprietary bean blends from
up to nine different cacao-growing regions throughout the world.
Scharffen Berger chocolate has received recognition throughout the
U.S. for its high quality chocolate. Scharffen Berger products are
sold by retailers nationwide and through its website
www.ScharffenBerger.com. Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker is part of
the Artisan Confections Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The
Hershey Company. For more information, please visit
www.ScharffenBerger.com.
About TuttiFoodie TuttiFoodie is the guide for adventurous food and
drink lovers nationwide who care about a sustainable world. Each
week, the site emails a brief, informative and witty tribute to an
off-the-beaten-path food, drink, food-related book or blog, or
culinary travel adventure. TuttiFoodie has been featured on NPR's
Splendid Table, on popular foodie sites such as epicurious.com,
chow.com, YumSugar and elsewhere. The blogosphere tipped its hat to
the site early on, with one San Francisco food blogger naming
TuttiFoodie, "the Daily Candy of food." For more information please
visit www.TuttiFoodie.com.
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