Ready for your claim to fame? It’s time to create the ultimate donut with your personalized touch in this year’s Create Dunkin’s Next Donut contest. Do you think you can manage that? If so, you will go home with an extra $12,000 cash, and the runners-up will go home with $1200 cash, a year’s supply of donuts, a flip HD, and a trip to Dunkin Donuts University for the finals. Life is sweet!
Last year, it was Toffee for your Coffee that went home the winner (a ring-shaped donut made with sour cream cake, glazed and topped with chopped Heath Bar), but this year the contest begins again and you have until March 8th to submit your award-winning entry.
Here are the rules :
- Create a donut
- Name it and provide your inspiration
- Enter it in the contest (Limit 1 entry per person)
- Entry must be received by March 8, 2010
- Submissions are judged by Dunkin’ Donuts
- The finalists are announced and voting is open to the public from April 19-May 3.
- The winner is announced on June 4, National Donut Day.
See official rules on the Dunkin Donut’s website.
Calling all wine enthusiasts, artists and lovers of fine wine labels, The Capital Grille has a unique contest going on right now and the winner will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Napa Valley. What do you need to do? Design a label for their soon-to-be-released bottle of wine scheduled to be featured in all of The Capital Grille locations on March 15, 2010.
Master Sommelier, George Miliote, describes this California wine as “a wonderfully intense Cabernet Sauvignon with opulent flavors of ripe cherries, black cassis, cedar and vanilla.”
This contest ends on November 30 and you can find more details here.
Gingerbread houses — they just sound delicious. If you are looking to get creative over the month of December, you might want to take a look at The 1st Annual Gingerbread House Competition sponsored by The Coral Gables Museum. This fun-filled contest is open to all – kids, families, businesses, architects – and it’s further separated into categories ie. your 5-year old child is not going to compete against the architect down the street. Cash and other prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners. Proceeds will go to benefit Museum’s Educational Programming Fund and the Community Partnership for Homeless.
The rules for the competition are simple to follow:
- Entry is not to exceed 2 feet in width (or depth)
- All entries must be original (though children are allowed to use kits)
- Major components must be made of gingerbread
- All components must be edible
- Judging will be based on: overall appearance, originality, difficulty, precision and consistency of theme
If you want to participate in this competition, you need to get on it right away, as the deadline for registering is December 1, 2008. Register now.
If you don’t want to participate, the exhibit will still be exciting to check out. From Friday, December 12 – Sunday the 14th, entries will be on display at the Gables’ original Art & Architecture Center located at 2901 Ponce de Leon Blvd. A judging and reception will take place on Sunday, they 14th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Celebrity chefs/bakers will submit entries that will be auctioned off.
Photo Credit: terren in Virginia @ flickr
Back in December, I visited The Counter, a local burger shop in Royal Palm Beach where you could build any burger you could dream up. As I described in my post, I thought this restaurant had done things right and that they were here to stay. So today, as I was having lunch at Naylah, a Mediterranean restaurant in Royal Palm Beach, just around the corner from where The Counter used to be, I learned that The Counter was no more. I will no longer by able to go and have my burger with herb goat cheese spread, dill pickle chips and apricot spread. What a sad day it was!
Good news though! MarxFoods is sponsoring a Build The Best Burger Contest. They are looking for the best burger, be it made with seafood, veggies, black beans, chicken, lamb or grass-fed beef or sandwiched between a bun, a mini-bun, ciabatta or tortilla. Recipes for side dishes are also welcome. The winning entry will be judged on deliciousness and originality.
In order to enter, you will need to submit your recipe to MarxFoods.com by Friday, July 18th with a recipe name or title attached to it. Stories about or photos of the recipe are also welcome and should be emailed to contest@marxfoods.com. Visit MarxFoods for contest rules.
The winner will receive 10 pounds of their choice of burger meat (or a $100 MarxFoods.com gift certificate) and palm leaf dinnerware. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, July 23.
Photo courtesy of MarxFoods.com
When people first pick up an issue of Dine Magazine, they instantly notice two things. The first being the feel of the magazine and the second being they beautiful photography contained within. We try to maintain a standard of elegance within the pages and that attracts people to us.
Although there’s nothing quite like tasting fresh ingredients and enjoying the perfect pairing of flavors coming together, looking through photographs of food is almost just as good. That’s why I was extremely excited to hear of a new contest that Wired Magazine has going on right now. They are taking us on a feast of food through photography and are calling readers to submit photos of food, both strange oddities and creations you can’t wait to indulge in.
So, take your chance. The top 10 entries (voted in by readers of the website) will be featured on wired.com. For more information, visit Wired Magazine.
Photo courtesy of Cafe Maxx.