CAFÉ Update April 26, 2021

27 April 2021

DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2021 – Pearfection Cheesecake Recipe Contest

Pearfection Cheesecake Recipe Contest

Culinary School Baking and Pastry Instructors are invited to enter the Pearfection Cheesecake Recipe Contest.

Cheesecake is a beloved dessert around the world, and the Pacific Canned Pear Service invites you to get creative with naturally sweet and delicious U.S. grown canned Bartlett pears and enter your winning cheesecake recipe.

Recipes will be evaluated based on: creative use of canned pears (25%), canned pears are integral to success of recipe (25%) and flavor and texture (50%).

Submit your recipe toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and a photo no later than May 1, 2021.

3 Cash Prizes will be awarded:

1^st Place-$1,000

2^nd Place-$500

3^rd Place-$250

BONUS: All entrants who submit a complete and eligible entry will receive a $10 Starbucks Gift Card from Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service.

For more information about the contest, go to Resource-center/Contests.

UP NEXT: CAFÉ Talks Podcast Episode #24

Join us on May 5th for a conversation with Chef Frank Costantino and listen in as this now Vice President and Program Director of the New York Culinary Institute at Monroe College, culinary competition coach, accomplished chef, and self-driven entrepreneurial spirit shares his story. From an early beginning when a guidance counselor proclaimed that he was not college material until he completed the requirements for a doctorate in education – Chef Costantino proved the skeptics wrong.

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