What an exciting week! The Cook with Us team (@pandamama, @offoodandart and @chefsteve), was so impressed by all of you. The entries are getting better and better each week and we are so happy that the level of engagement between all of the contestants is increasing. It is by reading, commenting and upvoting each other that our Cook with Us community grows. We would like to take a minute to thank everyone that participated in the contest this week. Everyone has contributed interesting and tasty looking entries. We know what it takes to plan, shop, cook, photograph, cleanup and to write the post. We appreciate all of your hard work to make these amazing entries.
This week we had some last minute entries that really shook up the competition and when all the votes were counted we ended up with two ties! First place and Second place each have two winners this week. So, let's see who the winners are!
And The WINNERS Are...
Decadent Chocolate Mousse Cake by @whattheduck and Decadent Spongecake with Nutella fillings by @foodforsoul
Congratulations @whattheduck you are the co-winner this week! You will receive 5 SBD for placing first. Your chocolate mousse cake was beautiful with the inlayed strawberries and the fresh fruit and herb decorations.
Congratulations @foodforsoul you are the other co-winner this week! You will also receive 5 SBD for placing first. Your sponge cake with nutella was so refined. We were really impressed with the chocolate decorations that you made.
And the Second Place Winners are...
Carrot Cake with Cheese Cake Center by @portobello8 and Butterscotch Fruit Cocktail Sponge by @lizelle
@portobello8, Congratulations for being a co-winner of the second place award. You will receive 3 SBD this week. You had our favorite photograph of the week! It was very creative
how you put the cheesecake inside the carrot cake. We all agreed that this took your carrot cake to a new level of awesomeness!
Congratulations @lizelle! You are the other co-winner of second place this week. You will receive 3 SBD as your reward. Your dessert looked so delicious with the butterscotch topping. We loved the photograph of your plated dessert with the addition of passion fruit. It looked like a photograph from a food magazine.
And in Third Place...
The Amazing Crumble Cream Cake by @cooknbake
Congratulations @cooknbake! You have won third place this week and you will receive 1 SBD. We loved your dessert this week. It was simple and soul satisfying. With the contrasting textures and creamy filling, this dessert is a real crowd pleaser!
Acknowledgements
There were many people that helped us to get this competition up and running. We would like to say a BIG thank you to them all and express our sincere gratitude for their contributions.
We are delighted with the caricatures made for us by @bazbiscuit and already people are asking where they can get these delightful little characters. Thank you Barry!
@jacklimberis made our banner and gif for us. Thank you Jack - we really appreciate all the hard and beautiful work!
Thank you @edenmichelle for making the youtube video for us.
Please follow @Jacklimberis and @bazbiscuit @theywillkillyou @world5list @world-travel-pro @heyitshaas and @edenmichelle. We hope to add to this list of supporters of our competition. If you would like to be a supporter of @cookwithus please contact us. We would love to hear from you.
Guys, I really appreciate how you guys choose the winners :) It is one of the fairest competitions I have seen on Steemit till today. Keep it up <3
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I agree - I think the 3 judges are amazing and the recipes have been so good - it must be hard for them @readmore - Congratulations to all the winners
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Thank you @readmore - it's good for us to hear some appreciation for our efforts. We try to be very fair judging on all aspects of the entry from taste, appearance/photographs, execution, creativity and story and even work on an uneven point system - and not withstanding that we still had two ties - for first and second place. In our minds they are all winners as we all know the amount of preparation that goes into being an entrant - from the planning to the shopping, cooking, baking, shooting photos, plating and posting. We appreciate all our entrants and wish they could all be prizewinners. This is why we are having a winners circle soon - so that winners will compete against winners and everyone stands a chance of winning
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What a wonderful surprise to wake up to! Thank you @cookwithus judges for selecting my dessert and for taking the time to organise this contest and judge each and every entry. Congratulations to all the participants and the winners. This is a great platform for all of us to share dear recipes and or to improve our skills by trying our best to showcase the best possible recipe while remaining an amateur Mum and dad chef apprentice. Thank you again.
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You did so well with your cake @foodforsoul! Congrats and thanks for sharing your recipe with us!
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Congratulations @foodforsoul for an amazing recipe - Well done !!
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Thank you.
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Wow!! How exciting! Thank you sooo much @cookwithus team!
What fun challenges your have! Im enjoying preparing for each one and am loving all the great entries and knowing other passionate cooking steemians here!
Great job and thank you so much for your appreciation of my dish!!
Congratulations to everyone!🤗❤❤
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Congratulations on being amongst the winners @cooknbake - great dessert recipe
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Thank you so much @edenmichelle! I appreciate your support!🤗
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Ohhhh my goodness! Thank you soo much!
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Congratulations on your win @whattheduck - very professional looking dish
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You're so welcome - and thank YOU for your wonderful entry and participation
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What a great platform, thank you all for putting it together. And thank you for the reward, it was a fun and inspiring opportunity. Keep up the hard work, we all appreciate it.
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Congratulations for being amongst the winners @portobello8me - yummy recipe
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That was a great entry @portobello8me! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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Yay, thank you to the entire team of @cookwithus, really enjoyed this challenge, looking forward to round 3! I don't envy you having to select the winners, there were some awesome entries! Thank you for the prize :) Wishing you all a happy Easter!
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Your recipe was great @lizelle - glad to see a fellow South African amongst the winners
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Ah thank you @edenmichelle, did not know you were from SA, will check out your blog!
I can't wait to do the next challenge, been hectic here at home as we run a little bnb and guests have been in and out this week, today of all days guests preparing for a wedding checked out (it's an Indian wedding so all the pre wedding functions were taking place locally, now they've gone up the North Coast for the actual wedding, what a palaver! Had to prepare for new guests so was bizzzy but we survived :)
Have a lovely Easter weekend!
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That's right, we got awesome entries, including yours @lizelle!
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This week has been amazing! Lots of beautiful and creative entries! Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone who has participated! We appreciate all the hard work you've put into your entry. Plus, the recipes that have been shared are inspirations and motivation for the rest of us to create beautiful food in the kitchen! Thank you!
Looking forward to the Italian/Easter/Passover holiday entries!
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Thank you for the good competitions. I wish you good mood and a good day !!!
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Thank you and the same to you @eduards - how about sending in a recipe?
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is that all those recipes look delicious, very good looking, I congratulate you.
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Thank you @melvadg
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Congratulations to all the winners! Those desserts really look delicious! Good job! Good job!
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