Last night was fun. Each condo was challenged to make their own dessert, with a contest for best taste and best presentation as decided by our judges, the coaches of Chino Hills XC, our condo neighbors and good friends in the sport.
We've staged the contest in past years, but this year took the cake, or so to speak. All four condos put together truly tasteful and creative offerings. Despite the smell of smoke coming from one condo and several hours on the phone with a mom in Riverside by another condo crew, the outcome was stunning and a difficult choice for our seasoned judges.
The winner was from Condo 26, who put together a mockup of Deadman's Pass. (DMP is one of the more challenging runs of the week, yet was wiped out this year due to smoke from a distant brush fire so the dessert creation was as close as we came.) The concoction was complete with candy trees and gummy bears prowling the Snickers trail. My personal favorite was "Mammoth Dirt" - a delicious creation of chocolate ice cream inside an actual flower pot, covered by crushed chocolate sandwich cookies, completed with gummy worms working their way out of the "soil" and an actual daisy flower centered in the middle!
A fun, hilarious night of judging, brown-nosing the judges and good natured smack-talking among the competitors left us with the greatest icing on the cake: we got to eat what we made!
We've staged the contest in past years, but this year took the cake, or so to speak. All four condos put together truly tasteful and creative offerings. Despite the smell of smoke coming from one condo and several hours on the phone with a mom in Riverside by another condo crew, the outcome was stunning and a difficult choice for our seasoned judges.
The winner was from Condo 26, who put together a mockup of Deadman's Pass. (DMP is one of the more challenging runs of the week, yet was wiped out this year due to smoke from a distant brush fire so the dessert creation was as close as we came.) The concoction was complete with candy trees and gummy bears prowling the Snickers trail. My personal favorite was "Mammoth Dirt" - a delicious creation of chocolate ice cream inside an actual flower pot, covered by crushed chocolate sandwich cookies, completed with gummy worms working their way out of the "soil" and an actual daisy flower centered in the middle!
A fun, hilarious night of judging, brown-nosing the judges and good natured smack-talking among the competitors left us with the greatest icing on the cake: we got to eat what we made!
Sean Lee trying to convince the judge that "presentation" doesn't matter. Taste is everything!
Mammoth Dirt
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