THE BEST-TASTING CHOCOLATE CAKE COMPETITION
Next month Food Weekly turns two and Sandton City is celebrating its 40th birthday. To mark the occasion we are looking for the country’s best chocolate cake recipe — and YOU are going to make it
Few can resist a chocolate cake, and to get the creative juices flowing we are sharing the origins of some of the world’s most fa mous: Black Forest cake is a decadent, boozy creation sprinkled with kirsch (cherry liqueur), layered with thick cream and cherries, and finished off with flakes of chocolate. It was created in the 1930s in Berlin.
THE COMPETITION
We are looking for the BEST-TASTING chocolate cake (looks aren’t everything) invented by a Food Weekly reader. E-mail food@sundaytimes.co.za with CHOCOLATE as the subject. Include your name, phone number and physical address (not PO Box); please state that you are a home (amateur) baker, that the recipe is your own original creation, and that it has not previously appeared in any print or other format. The top 20 recipes will be tested and six finalists will compete in a bake-off in Sandton City’s Fountain Court on September 14. Entries close at noon on August 27. Terms and conditions apply.
THE PRIZES
FIRST PRIZE: Top-of-the-range Elba gas/electric stove and Whirlpool Jet Chef microwave oven from Hirsch’s, plus R10 000 cash. SECOND PRIZE: A 60cm Whirlpool induction hob and Whirlpool Jet Chef microwave oven from Hirsch’s, plus R5 000 cash. THIRD PRIZE: Kenwood appliances to the value of R5 000, a Whirlpool Jet Chef microwave oven from Hirsch’s, and R2 500 cash. RUNNERS UP: Whirlpool Jet Chef oven from Hirsch’s.
THE RULES
The competition is open to South African residents over the age of 18. Employees of Times Media Ltd or Sandton City and their immediate families may not enter. The judges’ decisions are final. Finalists and winners must be prepared to be photographed and interviewed for marketing purposes. This competition is open to amateur bakers only and professional chefs and bakers may not enter. Finalists will be flown to Johannesburg (where necessary) and accommodated in Sandton overnight for the final bake-off.