1.Lighter than Helium (NOT! ) Steamed Cake (Patti)

Prize from Nancy

Best Tasting

2. Chocolate Mousse with Cardamom (Parnian)

3. Various Cheesecakes (Maria)

4. Brown Butter & Sea Salt Shortbread (Barry)

5. Salad with Prosciutto & Chocolate Dressing (John & Denise)

sorry! Our photographers missed Denise'!

6. Cocoa Coffee Pork Tenderloin (Judy)

Prize from Patti

Runner Up Best Overall

7. Chocolate Cake (Kathleen)

Prize from Martha & Juanita

Most Artistic

8. Mocha Bavarian Cream (Derek)

9. Charcoal Sheet Cake (Maureen)

Prize by Patti

Best on Theme

10. Double Chocolate Cakes with Almond Flour (Anita)

Prize by Deborah

Best OVERALL!

11. Chicken Mole (Marshall)

12. Flourless Chocolate Cake (Rosana)

13. Chocolate Coffee Glazed Short Ribs with Pumpkin Rosotto (Carol)

(Sous-chef Ryan accepts prize)

Prize by Ken

Runner up Best Savory

14. Lisbon Cake with Scotch Mocha Ganache (Richard)

Prize by Mike & Susan

Most Decadent

15. Carbon Chocolate Cake (Mike)

Carbon allows the creation of long molecules like DNA, which makes life possible.

Carbon is the largest part of the compounds in chocolate, which makes life worth living.

16. Chocolate Hummus (Farzi)

17. Walnut Chocolate Chip Bars (Leslie)

18. Chocolate Cornbread Compound (Susan & Mike)

20. Chocolate Cake (Farzad)

Arrived after voting, but OBVIOUSLY NOT after eating!

Sorry! No photo of Farzad...

21. Brownies (Ken)

Arrived after voting, but OBVIOUSLY NOT after eating!

42. MOLEbdenum 42+ (Gene)

Prize by Nancy

Tie for Best Savory

Molebdenum is a chocolaty-brown semi-liquid that is tasty and highly resistant to lasting very long. It has one of the highest eating points— only pure chocolate is higher. Molebdenum is also a micronutrient essential for life.

Molebdenum easily forms compounds with other culinary elements, but is rarely found free in nature (you have to pay for it in most cases).