Crusts and Crumbs: Chocolate Adventure Contest!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Chocolate Adventure Contest!

So guess what! I found a contest that I really want to enter. It's called the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Adventure Contest. The theme is cupcakes. You have to create a cupcake recipe using Scharffen Berger chocolate and one of fourteen "adventure ingredients." This year's ingredients are:

Stout beer
(including oatmeal, chocolate, imperial or any other stout)
Ricotta
Buttermilk
Coconut milk, cream or butter
Saffron
Molasses
Adzuki Bean
Fresh beet
Sweetened condensed milk
Chili pepper (fresh or
whole dried)
Bee pollen
Meyer lemon
Almond flour
Sumatra coffee beans

Each person is allowed ten entries, and we have until January 2nd. I'm so excited! I think it will be really fun to try to come up with something different. I think for my first entry I'll keep it simple and do a Deep Dark Chocolate Buttermilk Cupcake with Chocolate Mousse Filling and Sour Cream Frosting. I have a cake that I've already made like that, so I think I'll just tweak it a bit and add Buttermilk for the adventure ingredient. Does that sound good? I also think Ricotta sounds like a good ingredient. And sweetened condensed milk. The others are a bit daunting...but who knows, maybe I'll find something fun to try!
I don't know how soon I'll get started on this, but I'll definitely post each entry! And if I don't say anything more about it, be sure to bug me!

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Understand, I don’t intend to stop posting recipes completely. I still love cooking, and sharing that love with others. But I’ve also always enjoyed writing, and have recently rediscovered that dusty love. I feel like digging it out of the attic, and giving it a bit of a polish. I’ve been inspired by other bloggers, by their
daily grit and grind that they share with the world. By their faith and tenacity as they plod through life. I feel like taking advantage of the flexibility of a blog, and writing what I feel like, when I feel like it. The crusts and the crumbs of my life. A recipe today, a remodel post tomorrow, a reflection on parenting next week. I face a wide open space, waiting to be
filled with whatever I desire. And I like that challenge.

Me.

Much of my writing will never even see the light. It will never make it past the parchment of my mind, where it is scribbled in invisible ink for me alone. But some of it does. That bit is what is written here. Humbly posted for the world to see, if it cares, or to ignore if it doesn’t.
I’m not a spotlight kind of girl. I’m shy, and quiet, and a bit reserved. Oh, I like a good razzing between friends, and a spirited board game with the best of them. I love hosting friends and family and cherishing moments together.
But at my soul, in my heart of hearts, I’m a quiet evening with my man, fire blazing, hands wrapped around a warm cup of tea kind of girl. That’s when I’m most blissful.
So, I don’t write for a spotlight, imagined or otherwise. I don’t write for others. I write for me. If not a single person (besides my soul mate-we’re bonded as one, so he counts as me) reads this blog, I’d be just as satisfied in writing it as if a thousand had read it.Which is good, because a thousand people definitely
won’t be reading this. No, I write because there is an itch in my soul. An urge, somewhere deep inside of my being, to craft my thoughts into words and inscribe them, preserve them, and make meaning from them. It brings me peace to take the whirling dervish in my mind and put him to rest.