Editor's note: I will take responsibility for the tardiness of this announcement. Amanda filed this post quite a while ago, and it slipped through the cracks here at SE HQ. I'm sorry that it's taken this long to bring you the winner. —Adam All the votes are in. Though there was strong support for all of the entries, the winner of our second Sweet Tweaks challenge—pumpkin sponge cake—by a significant margin was Mike McLaughlin's Cinnamon Panna Cotta Pumpkin Pie. Congratulations, Mike, and a big thank you to all of the contestants for their wonderful submissions (and for their patience in awaiting this announcement). Mike will be receiving a copy of Dorie Greenspan's Baking, From My Home to Yours and Baked:...
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The votes are in. It was a close race with some super tasty-looking and -sounding contenders, but the prevailing favorite of our first-ever Sweet Tweaks contest was candied bacon strips with a sprinkle of caramel popcorn bits. Thank you, Helen Chang, for this delicious idea, and thank you to everybody else who participated. If you missed the action in the contest, don't worry. We'll be posting the next Sweet Tweak recipe for you to monkey with shortly. Stay tuned!...
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We've received some great tweaks in the inaugural Sweet Tweaks dessert contest. The deadline is Monday, October 20, 10 a.m. ET, so you still have this evening and all day Sunday to come up with something and enter. The gist, again: How to Enter Get the Recipe: This week's base recipe is Caramel Popcorn Tweak It: Use it as a coating or a component in a dessert, sculpt it, pulverize it—whatever—just be creative and have fun Submit your Sweet Tweak: Email it to sweettweak@seriouseats.comInclude: A brief description (30 words or thereabouts)—and a photo or two, if possible Deadline: 10 a.m. ET, Monday, October 20, 2008 More Details: Introducing Sweet Tweaks, a New Serious Eats Bake-Along Contest Good luck!...
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Last Friday we unveiled a new contest feature on Serious Eats called Sweet Tweaks. The gist: We give you a recipe, you tweak it, and the best tweak of the week wins a prize. It probably didn't help that we were unclear about how to submit your tweaks—or that we debuted the feature on a Friday, giving you too little notice to cook along with us. Apologies for that. So we've extended the deadline to next Monday so all of you can join in. The prize this week? A pair of wonderful baking books: Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours and Alice Medrich's Pure Dessert. How to Enter Get the Recipe: This week's base recipe is Caramel...
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