What: The Best Lick! Ice Cream Contest
When: The deadline for recipes and photos is Monday, August 21st.
Who: Open to anyone
How: Send an email to kitchen (at) apartmenttherapy (dot) com with the subject heading "ICE CREAM CONTEST" in all caps with the following information:
• one original, properly written recipe for an ice cream flavor - for a basic guide on how to write a recipe, click here
• one photo of you making it (no faces necessary) and one of the final product
• one sentence about your inspiration
• one quote from someone who tasted it
• permission to post your recipe, photos, and name (any name you provide)
Recipes will be judged by the AT: The Kitchen team, five finalists will be selected, and the recipes will be posted for all to try at home. Then we'll vote. There will be prizes!
Good Luck!
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I've always been curious. How do companies -- especially big companies -- judge recipe contests? Do they make *every* single one?
If anyone knows, tell me so I can sleep at night. Thanks!
I work for a magazine that runs one of the largest food contests in the nation and they do not make every single entry. First, if the form is filled out wrong or if the recipe isn't submitted the *exact* way the rules say, it is thrown out. Unfortunatley, it does discount many good recipes. We have food experts on staff that can read a recipe and know if it is 1. creative 2. tasty 3. needs to go to the test kitchen for testing. One main idea to win is that it doesn't have to be complicated to be good. You may also be interested to know there are people who enter cooking contests for a living (they look at the sponsor product and then come up with a recipe) but it is almost as likely that an "average joe" could win. Hope that helps. :)
Does it have to be ice cream or are sorbets allowed?
kf - Cool!! Thanks. I didn't realize there was a response here until now but that's great. :-)
Now on to my next question: how do they write the dictionary? :-P
Sleeping more soundly tonight for sure...zzz...
Gorgeous palette in the photo second from the left.
So, who won the 2006 contest? I clicked on the tags and also did a search, but can only find the recipe descriptions.