20th Annual Q u a d y  D e s s e r t  C o m p e t i t i o n   CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BEST COMPETITORS EVER!

The Top 10
           
       
#1  Steve Hodge - Thomas Haas Fine             #2  Sam Shem - Four Seasons Hotel
Chocolates & Patisserie                                    Vancouver 
Crispy macadamia-manjari napoleon          Bliss - Tonka bean mousse with dried fruit
with cassis & sun-dried kalamata                        puree, almond crunch and almond
figs                                                                 frangipane, served with apricot sorbet &
                                                                      raspberry decor

       
Tomiko Mayede - Deuce Restaurant               Celeste Mah - West Restaurant
Horizon - Chocolate, hazelnut, fig, raisin          Figgy & The Blue Pear - Chocolate fig
cassis, creme fraiche                                       cake, molten Fourme d'Ambert centre, pear,
                                                                      fig, pecan compote with Fourme d'Ambert
                                                                      mousse. Pear and peppered port sorbet

      
Wendy Boys - Lumiere Restaurant                  Anna Yeh - Fairmont Vancouver Airport
Almonds and Winter Flavours                     Temptation - Raspberry macarron with
Soft almond cake with crispy praline, dark         blue cheese butter cream, chocolate pate
chocolate mousse, puree of prune d'agen,         with candied walnut, vanilla & fig semifreddo
blood orange ice cream and caramel                 orange coulis
sabayon

      
Elmo B. Pinpin - Blue Water Cafe & Raw      Kim Collishaw - Culinary Capers Catering
Bar - C4 = (Chocolate +  Cheddar +          Dark Chocolate Caramel Brownie
Cranberry + Caramel)                              Port soaked raisins and walnut brownie served
Dark chocolate marquis, aged cheddar          with a caramel foam, dark chocolate
cheesecake, dried cranberry layer cake &     semifreddo
cranberry ice cream, salted caramel sauce

      
Best Student Award                                 Lela Selmo - Salt Tasting Room
Slavita Johnson - Northwest Culinary         Stichelton Cheesecake       
Academy of Vancouver                                Stichelton* cheesecake with fig compote,
Cherries & Right Angles - Cherry and       walnut croquant, gelato and almond tuiles
chocolate entremet accompanied by cherry   * Classic blue cheese made from unpasteurized
cubes and pecan ice milk                             milk