{"id":13523,"date":"2016-02-24T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2016-02-24T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:29:29","slug":"kennett-chocolate-fest-raises-16-5k-for-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=13523","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Chocolate fest raises $16.5K for community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1293371\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocolateLovers-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1293371\" class=\"wp-image-1293371 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChocolateLovers-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ChocolateLovers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1293371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate lovers indulge themselves this past weekend at the Kennett Chocolate Lovers festival. The event raised $16,500 for Community Impact Fund of United Way of Southern Chester County.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 The Kennett Chocolate Lovers Festival on February 21st raised $16,500 for the Community Impact Fund of United Way of Southern Chester County.\u00a0 The proceeds will help fund programs at over 28 local non-profits helping our neighbors in need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over 1,000 attendees gorged on 150 chocolate treats.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t thank enough the adults, professionals, and students who baked for us,\u201d said Carrie Freeman, UWSCC\u2019s CEO.\u00a0 \u201cWithout their entries, this festival couldn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 We also appreciate our sponsors: our lead Dark Chocolate sponsor \u2013 Bank of America, our Milk Chocolate sponsor \u2013 W.L. Gore, and our White Chocolate Sponsors \u2013 Union Street Financial and TD Bank.&#8221;<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0first<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0place winners in the five amateur divisions won Corian cutting boards and a $100 gift certificates to area restaurants &#8211; Twelves, Buckley Tavern, Two Stones, and Platinum Dining restaurants in Delaware.\u00a0 Ribbons were awarded for first, second and third<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0place to Professional, Amateur, and Student divisions for cakes, cupcakes, brownies, cookies, and candies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Top Professional winners in each category were: The Country Butcher for their Double Diablo Brownies, The Gables at Chadds Ford for their Lucy B\u2019s Chocolate Hazelnut Cake, Heavenly Sweet Chocolates for their Nancy\u2019s Heavenly Caramel Pretzel Bites, Heavenly Sweet Chocolates for their Nancy\u2019s Heavenly Milk &amp; Dark Chocolate Sandwich Cookies with Sea Salt, and The Gables at Chadds Ford for their Charlie\u2019s Chocolate Cupcakes.\u00a0 Two professionals scored big with 3 ribbon each:\u00a0 Nancy Orlando from West Chester\u2019s Heavenly Sweet Chocolates and Pam Matthews from Kennett\u2019s Country Butcher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Top Amateur winners in each category were: Patti Beauchesne for her Chocolate Peanut-Butter-Ganache Brownies, Michelle Cope for her Michelle\u2019s Sinfully Delicious Dark Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse, Alison Snyder for her Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles, Lisa Gross for her Lisa\u2019s Dark Chocolate Raspberry Bar, and Roberta Carlson for her I\u2019ll Stop the World and Malt with You cupcakes.\u00a0 Our top baker from the amateur division was Lisa Gross from Lincoln University who won a 1<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and 2<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> for her cookies and a 2<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> for her cake.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kennett High School\u2019s Family Consumer Science and the Pastry Arts students garnered 7 of the 15 top spots for student entries.\u00a0 Individual 1<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> place student winners were:\u00a0 Madison Bowe for her Chocolate-Mint Bars and Emily Schmidt for her Chocolate-Orange Cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It takes a village-worth of volunteers to work the festival.\u00a0 47 student servers volunteered from Kennett High (21), Unionville High School (19), Tower Hill (3), Avon Gove Charter (2), and Oxford (2).\u00a0 Community volunteers and board members cut countless trays of brownies and cakes.\u00a0 28 community members (including Mayor Matt Fetick from Kennett Square, Kennett Township Supervisors Richard Leff and Whitney Hoffman, and Estelle Tracy, a famous French food blogger dedicated to chocolate) had the difficult task of blind-tasting all the entries to pick the 15 top winners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe netted $1,000 more than last year, so it is great to see the proceeds growing year after\u00a0 year,\u201d said Ms. Freeman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 The Kennett Chocolate Lovers Festival on February 21st raised $16,500 for the Community Impact Fund of United Way of Southern Chester County.\u00a0 The proceeds will help fund programs at over 28 local non-profits helping our neighbors in need. 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