Prize Chocolate Brownies Chosen From 54 Entries
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Twelve-year-old Ami Martin’s
brownies are the best in the state.
Her 13-year-old brother Danny
calls them “Chokin’ Brownies”
but loves to eat them.
“I just came up with it,” Ami
said of her recipe called “Ami’s
Delicious Hershey Cocoa Bars.
Ingredients include Reese’s peanut
butter chips and edible glitter.
Ami said that she learned to
bake from her mom Barbara Mar
tin who has 47 ribbons she won at
local fairs for cooking projects.
Her mom was 18 years old when
she first entered a fair. Since Ami
already has five ribbons and she is
only 12„she figures she can bypass
her mother’s success rate in a cou-
pie of years.
The success is not without some
sacrifice.
On Fair week. Ami stayed up to
2 a.m. baking. But she said the lack
of sleep is well worth it when you
win a ribbon.
Since she topped 54 entries.
Ami received $2O and a weekend
for four at Hershey Resort
Second place went to Brooke
Kaezinski, East Petersburg, and
third place to Sara Moser,
Tuifootville.
Sarah received her recipe from a
friend she met in the Wisconsin
4-H Exchange program.
The daughter of Richard and
Gail Moser of Turbotville, Sarah
Great Chocolate Cakes From
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
“Don’t be intimidated.” That’s
the advice from winners in the
Greatest Cocoa Cake Contest.
Out of 53 contestants, Connie
Rich of North East garnered first
place for a weekend for four at
Hershey Resort
The entries were fastidiously
decorated. Some had intricate cho
colate bows, flowers, leaves
arranged on them. Some were
multi-layered cakes, some were
tones, some had cherries or nuts
added but all were heavenly fla
vors of chocolate.
“I can’t deal with this again,”
said third place winner Jill Fleisher
of Chambersburg.
The hours of waiting forjudges
to make their decisions results in
nervous contestants and cold
hands.
Last year Jill was a second-place
winner. This year she tried a diffe-
said that her brother entered last
year but didn’t try this year.
The 17-year-old is a junior at
Warrior Run High School.
Cooking expertise runs in Sar
ah’s family. Her aunt Julie Raup
placed second in the greatest cho
colate cake contest. Her grand
mother Viola Pfleegor often won
ribbons for entries in local fairs.
The brownie entries were previ
ous first-place winners at local
fairs. The contest was sponsored
by Hershey Foods Corporation and
PA Stale Association of County
Fairs.
Here are the first-place and the
third-place winning recipes.
AMI’S DELICIOUS
HERSHEY
COCOA BROWNIES
Vi cup flour
Vt teaspoon baking powder
V* teaspoon salt
2 eggs, large
1 cup granulated sugar
6 'A tablespoons shortening,
melted
6 tablespoons cocoa
54 cup Reese’s peanut butter
chips
1 teaspoon vanilla
Frosting;
3 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablesi ins cocoa*
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1 tablespoon light com syrup
'A teaspoon vanilla
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons milk
rent recipe—an original one. As a
caterer, Jill is an experienced bak
er, but she credits her oldest son
with giving her a dose of good
luck. “He eats a piece of chocolate
off each square for good luck,” she
said.
Nine-year-old Jaron said that he
also wished on a wish bone that his
mother would win.
Second-place winner Julie Raup
of Turbotville also was nervous
'during the judging of the 53
entries.
She said, ‘The secret is to use
good ingredients all real dairy
products.”
She credits her cooking skills to
being raised on a farm and having a
cooking background in 4-H.
Julie, a dietician works at a nurs
ing home. She placed third in state
competition previously in the cake
contest and also was a finalist in
the apple pie contest this year.
She and her husband Randy
Edible glitter sprinkle over
frosting
Peanut Butter Frosting
'A cup Reese’s peanut butter
1 pound confectioners’ sugar
7-8 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Blend one-third sugar and pea
nut butter alternately. Add remain
ing sugar and milk. Add vanilla.
Run frosting through flour in coo
kie press. Let harden, top with mini
chips.
GRAMMA BARS
'A cup butter
V* cup sugar
2 eggs
’/ cup flour
2 tablespoons Hershey’s cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
Miniature marshmallows
6 ounces chocolate chips
6 ounces butterscotch chips
1 cup peanut butter
l'/j cup rice crispy cereal
Mix together first three ingre
dients. Add flour, cocoa, and van
illa. Beat together. Bake in a
9x13-inch greased and floured pan
at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
Cover with miniature marshmal
lows. Put in oven for one minute to
melt Cool.
Melt chocolate chip, butter
scotch chips and stir in one cup
peanut butter and rice crispy cere
al. Spread over bars. Cool and cut
Garnish with a walnut half on top.
Sara Moser
Third place
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Notes
Around The State
><sher gets plenty > and good luck from her
greatest fans her husband Randy and sons, Jaron, 9;
Kennon, 7; and Ethan, 4.
have two children Zachary, 8, and
Meagan, 4.
Here are the winning recipes.
First Place
HERSHEY’S COCOA
CAKE CAKE
CAKE:
4 ounces Hershey’s semi-sweet
chocolate, chopped.
4 ounces boiling water
2 ounces Hershey’s semi-sweet
chocolate, coarsely chopped
2 1/2 cups plus 3 tablespoons
cake flour
3/4 cup Hershey’s cocoa
Good cooks run In families. John and Viola Pleegor of
Turbotville produced this batch of winning cooks. Their
daughter Julie, holding her 4-year-old daughter Meagan,
placed third In the chocolate cake contest and granddaugh
ter Sarah Moser placed third for the best brownies. Grand
ma said that she used to can all summer long to enter Items
in the local fairs but now lets the younger generations carry
on her tradition.
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1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups plus 3 tablespot
sugar
3/4 stick butter, room temp.
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/2 cup Hcrshey’s semis'
chocolate chips
Heat oven to 350. Buf
round cake pans. Di
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