Everybody’s a winner with chocolate.

I truly believe this, as chocolate is one of the all time best foods ever invented/grown/made etc. But this time I’m not the only one who thinks so. Thanks to all of you who voted I am the winner of Holly’s First Art You can Eat competition for my Wildberry Mousse in a Dark Chocolate Bramble Cage.

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Look, I have the banner to prove it!

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Thank you Holly, and all the voters. It was such fun and there was some seriously good competition. I am still working my way through the entries. Several people have said you are going to try making my dessert. If you do I’d love to hear how it went.

In the meantime, as the winner I get the pleasure of choosing the next ingredient. As it will be the March competition I have chosen eggs, to represent Easter and the pagan celebration of rebirth and renewal. Roll on Spring! Holly and I agreed that this may be a little limiting so it can either be something made with egg as the main ingredient (this means there has to be more egg than anything else), or something in an egg shape. We leave the rest up to you.

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For details go to the Art You can Eat site where Holly will lay out the rules and tell you where to send entries. The only bad thing about this is that I’m now desperate for some chocolate mousse but I ate it all ages ago. Perhaps it’s time to get back in the kitchen…

26 Responses to “Everybody’s a winner with chocolate.”

  1. on 20 Feb 2008 at 3:21 pm Bellini Valli

    Congratulations. I had always thought your dessert to be too beautiful to eat…thak goodness for the camera :D

  2. on 20 Feb 2008 at 3:59 pm Kit

    Congratulations - it was very well deserved! So mouth-wateringly beautiful.

  3. on 20 Feb 2008 at 4:56 pm Astra Libris

    Congratulations - sooooo very very well deserved! Your dessert truly is a work of art - one anyone would be thrilled to have as a sculpture in their home as well as a bit of scrumptiousness on their table!

  4. on 20 Feb 2008 at 7:42 pm Mrs.W

    Well done! When you first posted about that dessert I thought it was gorgeous–what a treat to see it again. You totally deserved to win!

  5. on 20 Feb 2008 at 9:24 pm courtney

    Conrats. I already have my idea for the egg theme!

  6. on 21 Feb 2008 at 12:24 pm Ann

    You absolutely deserved the win! Congrats!

  7. on 21 Feb 2008 at 1:17 pm Pasticcera

    Well deserved indeed!

  8. on 22 Feb 2008 at 3:27 pm marye

    congrats! You did a beautiful job.

  9. on 23 Feb 2008 at 10:08 am Vegeyum

    How creative you are! I love your art work.

  10. on 23 Feb 2008 at 11:40 pm Jeni

    Congratulations! Tu sei un artista as we say in Italian! You are truly blessed with an artistic gift my friend.

  11. on 24 Feb 2008 at 2:49 am Andrea

    Congratulations! Your bramble cage was just beautiful!

  12. on 25 Feb 2008 at 1:11 pm Miri

    Congrats!! It was really really beautiful - the chocolate cage you made, no wonder you won!

  13. on 26 Feb 2008 at 12:35 pm Susan from Food Blogga

    Superb! That really is a piece of art. I’d feel guilty eating it! Course I could get over the guilt pretty quickly. ;)

  14. on 28 Feb 2008 at 6:13 am Anne

    Congratulations, that is so pretty! You are so talented! :)

    I happened to tag you for a meme - more details here: http://annesfood.blogspot.com/2008/02/tagged-again.html

  15. on 28 Feb 2008 at 7:32 pm marye

    Gave you an award..
    where are you? Is everythign good?

  16. on 29 Feb 2008 at 3:46 am michelle @ Us vs. Food

    so beautiful! i thought about entering this one, but knew i would be completely outclassed. and i was right!

    i give ten thousand thanks to little baby jesus every morning for the person who figured out how to make cacao pods into Valhrona.

    - michelle @ Us vs. Food

  17. on 29 Feb 2008 at 2:52 pm Marie

    Congrats and very well deserved! That dessert is beautiful!

  18. on 01 Mar 2008 at 4:15 am Jaime

    WOW. what a truly gorgeous and amazing dessert, no wonder you won! congrats!

  19. on 01 Mar 2008 at 9:11 am coco

    This looks so nice! SO nice that I’d like to stare at it and not eat it

  20. on 02 Mar 2008 at 3:06 am jasmine

    Absolutely gorgeous and very impressive. Very well deserved recognition!

    j

  21. on 02 Mar 2008 at 7:00 am Blog Surfing…A Little Late

    [...] a very cool competition.  This month it must be egg shaped or made with eggs.  Last month Inge of Vanielje Kitchen won it with an incredible creation. Due March [...]

  22. on 03 Mar 2008 at 7:40 am Ivy

    Congrats, that was absolutely gorgeous. Hope to create something with the eggs you have chosen.

  23. on 03 Mar 2008 at 10:14 pm Chou

    What a beautiful dessert! Were you a little sad to eat it?

  24. on 04 Mar 2008 at 12:56 pm african vanielje

    Thank you all for your congratulations. I was a little surprised as there were some really great entries, but to answer your questions Chou, no I was not at all sad to eat it. In fact I think I ate four. The only thing I was sad about was that re-posting the pics made me want one all over again. So I did the chocolate mousse thing without the cages this time. I hope you are all working on your Easter egg entries. Lateral thinking ladies. And good luck!

  25. on 09 Mar 2008 at 10:39 am M&Ms

    Almost no words - so beautiful, so creative! Love it. Congrats.

  26. on 11 Mar 2008 at 1:26 pm Jeanne

    Congratulations - that entry was soooooo worth it! I am still amazed at how you got those perfect little cages - we are not worthy, we are not worthy!!

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