Contest Entry

Today was the deadline for the first recipe contest I've ever entered. The contest is the Chocolate Adventure Contest and required, obviously, chocolate as well as one or more adventuresome ingredients. The co-sponsor of the contest was Scharffen Berger chocolate and required use of their product. The adventure ingredients included such things as sumac, paprika, crystalized ginger, pandan leaves, and more. I chose to go with the rice flour and peanut butter to create my Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Mochi Cakes.

Unfortunately one of the rules states that the recipe cannot be published until the end of the contest. Judging takes place the latter part of February, so I guess I can't post the recipe until March. But they did say that I could talk about my entry.


I've been playing with rice flour for mochi desserts recently. You might have seen my post last month of pumpkin mochi. But mochi is also done as little cakes, traditionally with a filling of sweet red beans. I had never made the cakes before and decided this might be a good experiment for the contest. So I made a basic mochi cake recipe and just added the chocolate. Then I made a peanut butter filling, comboed the two, and voila.



The first batch I took to work and all my coworkers said they were good as they were. I thought about adding more sugar to the mochi, but really mochi isn't all that sweet. So the only thing I tweaked for the second batch was to use milk instead of water.

The contest has two categories - savory and sweet. The winner for each section gets $10,000. The runner-up gets a Scharffen Berger gift basket. Winning would be nice, but it's my first entry ever, so I can't get my hopes up on the very first try for such a simple recipe.