Pastry Chicago - First Annual Brownie Competition Nov 6

Do you like your brownies cakey or fudgy? Do you flavor them with melted chocolate or rich cocoa powder? Do you serve them with frosting or without? There are so many ways to make a brownie and this year’s First Annual Amateur Brownie Competition will highlight the classic combination of coffee and chocolate.

Sign up your favorite recipe for a chance at great prizes from KitchenAid; learn from a demonstration by The French Pastry School Chef Instructor, Scott Green; and take part in the fun at Esperanza Community Services’ 2011 Holiday Art and Gift Fest.

Here's a schedule of the events:

2:30 - 3:00 pm
Contestants arrive, submit entries

3:00 - 3:45 pm
Demonstration, Chef Scott Green of The French Pastry School

4:30 pm
Results Announced

Rules and Regulations:

1. To sign up for the competition, first send in your registration to Pastry Chicago then buy your ticket at www.esperanzacommunity.org (click on “Events” on the bottom of the home page then select “Holiday Art and Gift Fest”).
2. Your confirmation will not be sent until you have completed both steps.
a. Mandatory flavor component: Chocolate and Coffee
b. Contestants must submit a total of 12 individual identical stand-alone brownies: six for judging and six for display. All brownies must be submitted at the time of registration.
c. No additional display items may accompany your brownies.
d. Recipes must be submitted with the brownie (if no recipe is submitted your brownie will not be judged).
e. Brownies will be served cold or at room temperature. No baking or decorating is done on premises.
f. All contestants must use the following ingredients, but are not limited to only these ingredients: Callebaut Chocolate, Nielsen-Massey Vanilla, Plugrà European-Style Butter and King Arthur Flour. All of these items can be found at your local Whole Foods store. In addition, must use Julius Meinl Coffee.

In order to obtain a sample of 250g of ground coffee to use in your entry, please contact Sonja Lund, Julius Meinl’s Coffee Service Specialist. You can pick up your sample at one of two of their retail outlets in Chicago:

Julius Meinl Coffeehouse
3601 N. Southport Ave
Chicago, IL 60613

Click here to download the registration form and get more information: http://www.pastrychicago.org/aboutus/index.html.