Harvard Chocolatier Competition

Last weekend, I led a group at a chocolate competition. Our entry took 3 hours to create and was arranged in components with one person in charge of each. There were basically three main components - a triple chocolate truffle cake, fudgy brownie, and double chocolate sugar cookies. Just when others thought we had finished, we knew the fun was just starting.

Using a few of our trademark decorating techniques, we created chocolate bowls, shaved chocolate, arranged the cake, and infused our sense of order into this mass of chocolate. One cooking rule we learned was to always add more chocolate than you think you need.

At the time of the competition, however, we had to remember the prophetic emphasis on humility. Despite the fact our entry outshined them all, we had keep our chins down so others could seem to have their chins up. We took 1st place!