20 of Beijing’s bakers will be vying to be crowned the best baker in the capital and all in the name of charity at this year’s The Hutong Cookie Monster Charity Bake-off. Young and old cookie lovers can munch down on cookies guilt free (well not entirely) but it’s for a good cause. Last year’s winner, Jon Ellis, now has his own business-Big Bear Cookies-therefore this is win-win-win situation.
Here is the list of contestants and the name of their creations:
- Jordan Silva – Chewy Chocoholic Cookies
- Sunila Cook – Sea Salt and Olive Oil Brownie Cookies
- Jacob Miller – “No Bake” Cookies
- Jimi Sides and Mickey – Lil’ Oinker Cookies
- Charlotte Arneson + Sophie Haas -“Tea Thai-ime Thumbprint” Cookies
- Lotus Qi – Linzer Augen
- Kelvin Goh – Double Chocolate Coconut Cookies
- Sue Zhou- Caramel Choco Cookies
- Miho Lai – Message Butter Cookies
- Kinsey Morrow and Cara Gleeson – Crack Jack Cookies
- Britt Langford (Sweet Tart Bakery) – Orange-Walnut Butter Cookies with Chocolate-Espresso Glaze
- Daisy – Panda Cookies 萌萌哒小熊猫饼干
- Grace Yang – Lemon Meringue Cookies
- Clare He – Dark Chocolate Guinness Cookies
- Marte – Guilt-free Banana Oatmeal Cookies with Coconut and Chocolate
- Filippo Fiori – Traditional Tuscanian Almond Cookies
- Kitty 李坤 – Chocolate Butter Cookies
- Maya Jing 亚静 马 – Banana and Chocolate Soft Cookie
- Lory 郭婷 – 玛格丽特饼干
- Andrew Gilliland – Pantry Dropper Cookies
Entrance is RMB 150 and RMB 100 for members and children, which includes samples from all contestants and one hot drink from the following:
- Warm milk (cause that’s what the Cookie Monster likes to dunk his cookies into) – RMB 10
- Hot Chocolate – RMB 20
- Chai Tea – RMB 20
- Hot Toddy’s (recipe by the one and only Joshua Kernan)- RMB 20
Attendees buy a bag of 5 cookies for RMB 20 then RMB 5 goes to BEAM. While 100% of raffle tickets and portion of entrance tickets plus cookies sales goes to Bethel China.
The raffle prizes up for grabs are:
- Juice by Melissa: 3-day Juice Cleanse Package (RMB 1,080)
- Bamiyan Afghan Restaurant: Restaurant Vouchers (RMB 600)
- Punjabi Indian Restaurant: Restaurant Vouchers (RMB 500)
- The Hutong: Cooking Class for 2 (RMB 600)
- Hatsune Japanese Restaurant: Restaurant Voucher (RMB 500)
- The Taco Bar: 2 Restaurant Vouchers (RMB 100 each)
- Jing-A Taproom: 2 Restaurant Vouchers (RMB 100 each)
- Rager Pie: 9″ Pecandrogynous Pie (RMB 140)
- Migas and Traitor Zhou’s: 3 Vouchers for Box of Freshly Baked Donuts (RMB 60 each)
- Two Guys and a Pie: 6 Free Pie Vouchers (RMB 30 each) + 6 Buy-Two-Get-One-Free Vouchers
- The Hutong: Sichuan Recipe Book (RMB 50)
- The Hutong: Yunnan Recipe Book (RMB 50)
