Chefs of Elanthia Cooking Competition

Eoantos 18, 5119 Competition

Introduction

A kobold with chocolate dribbling from its mouth and a great horned owl perched on its head wanders in droning, "Come to Twilight Hall to celebrate our 23rd Anniversary and take part in our cook off! All are welcome to attend. We'll have snacks and prizes for everyone! This event's theme is chocolate!" Without further explanation, the kobold walks off in the direction from whence it came.

Evician exclaims, "Heh drooling mind controlled kobold goodness!"

Evician says, "I love that so much."

Evician exclaims, "To the kitchen!"

Evician says, "Ahem."

Evician recites:

"Welcome to the Twilight Hall Chocolate Let Leafiara taste it all so she can manipulate time and space cook off."

Evician says, "Jastalyn, Sarlena and Leafiara are judges."

Evician says, "I'm the tie breaker."

Jastalyn softly asks, "A tie with three judges?"

Evician says, "You know....in case things."

Leafiara sheepishly says, "He's planning for when I vote everybody first place."

Evician says, "And then I break Leafiara's hands."

Evician says, "Khylynnia said so."

Entry #1: Regwen's Chocolate Tassies

Regwen smiles as she goes to the pantry and gathers the ingredients. Eggs, flour, butter, cream cheese, chocolate, and pecans.

Regwen turns around.

(Regwen, her arms full, lines up her things on the counter and gets a large bowl, a pan that looks like it's for small muffins.)

Regwen says, "Now for a spoon."

Regwen searches around for a moment.

Regwen ponders.

(Evician hands Regwen a giant spoon.)

Regwen beams happily at Evician!

(Regwen measures some dough ingredients into the bowl and mixes it quickly.)

Regwen smiles as she rolls small balls and places them into each hole of the muffin pan.

Regwen smiles as she smashes a hole into each ball.

Regwen grins.

(Regwen mixes the brown sugar, butter, and cocoa and adds it to each hole.)

Regwen says, "Now into the oven."

(Regwen opens the oven and messes with the settings.)

(Regwen now melts some more chocolate and mixes it quickly with a bit of milk.)

Regwen turns an ear toward an oven.

Regwen says, "It dinged."

Regwen grins.

(Regwen finds the hot pads.)

(Regwen places the hot pan on the counter.)

Regwen smiles as she drizzles the melted chocolate over each tassie.

Regwen says, "I've created Regwen chocolate tassies."

Regwen grins.

Regwen says, "Now to taste one."

(Regwen gingerly takes a hot tassie and blows on it.)

Regwen grins.

(Regwen bites the tassie.)

Regwen says, "I can taste the moist filling of brown sugar pecans and cocoa mixes with the eggs and butter."

Regwen nods.

Regwen says, "The shell is flaky and sweet and the chocolate is excellent on the top."

Regwen asks, "Do you want the actual recipe?"

Regwen grins at Jastalyn.

Regwen giggles.

Jastalyn grins at Regwen.

Regwen says, "One cup flour, 3 ouces of cream cheese, tablespoon butter. Mix well for dough."

Regwen says, "Filling is 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 egg, and a cup of pecans."

Regwen says, "Then melt a big square of chocolate combining it with a bit milk."

Regwen says, "Drizzle on top."

Regwen says, "Bake in a magic over for an instant."

Entry #2: Rainedrop's Triple-Layered Petit-a-Four

(Rainedrop grabs her favorite diamond encrusted mithril mixing bowl of wonder, quickly tosses in cocoa powder, sugar, and four sticks of softened butter, and begins mixing.)

(Rainedrop mixes quickly to make it extra floofy!)

(Rainedrop tosses in an unknown amount of flour making some powder fly in the air.)

Rainedrop wiggles her nose.

Rainedrop grins.

(Rainedrop pours it in a baking dish, tosses it in the fire filled oven, waggles her fingers mystically at the oven. POOF it's done!)

(Rainedrop slices the cake into slices and layers it with a cherry mousse pre-prepared.)

Rainedrop giggles.

Rainedrop smiles proudly as she presents a gilt edged ivory plate. On the plate you see a small triple-layered chocolate deep cherry mousse filled petit-a-four topped with a miniature white chocolate scarlet owl.

Rainedrop giggles.

(Rainedrop presents the judges with their own petit-a-four cake.)

Rainedrop smiles and pops a petit-a-four in Jastalyn's mouth.

Entry #3: Ashreilynn's Banana and Chocolate Hazelnut Creme Sandwiches

(Ashreilynn wanders around the kitchen, opening and closing cabinets and taking miscellaneous things. She hops up to grab a pan off of the wall, careful not to drop any of her ingredients before returning to the counter.)

(Ashreilynn unceremoniously drops everything onto the counter, sorting things around her. The pot is thrown onto the stove with a slab of butter to melt while she turns her attentions to the hazelnuts she has thrown into a bowl.)

(Ashreilynn whips out a dagger from somewhere on her person and begins to mash the hazelnuts into a fine paste. She quickly cleans off the dagger and stashes it away again before mixing some eggs, milk, and cocoa powder in with the nuts in the bowl and whips it finely.)

(Ashreilynn dips a finger into the chocolate and hazelnut creme in her bowl and tastes it briefly before grinning widely. "Perfect!" She hooks the loaf of bread towards her and slices several pieces and sets them aside before finely cutting up some bananas.)

Jastalyn grins at Ashreilynn.

Ashreilynn grins at Jastalyn.

(Ashreilynn places pieces of banana on all of the slices of bread before liberally smearing all of them with the chocolate and hazelnut creme before making sandwiches and placing them one by one into the pan, flipping them as the butter sizzles in the bottom of the pan before taking them out and placing them onto pristine white plates.)

Ashreilynn exclaims, "Judges! Host! I present to you my special banana and chocolate hazelnut creme sandwiches!"

(Ashreilynn quickly passes out a plate to Sarlena and Jastalyn before carefully holding out a plate to Leafiara. She then turns and presents the last plate to Evician.)

Ashreilynn grins at Regwen.

Ashreilynn exclaims, "Do not worry! There is more!"

(Leafiara hurriedly seizes the plate from Ashreilynn!)

Regwen applauds Ashreilynn.

Ashreilynn exclaims, "It's a simple meal but one of my favorites! The mixture of the chocolate and the hazelnut with the banana and the toasted bread... Delicious I think!"

Ashreilynn giggles at Leafiara.

A dreamy smile crosses Leafiara's lips as she stares longingly at Ashreilynn.

Ashreilynn giggles at Leafiara.

(Sarlena gazes hungrily at Ashreilynn, happily taking the plate, she slices a piece of the bread with her claw, delicately plucking it up and popping it into her mouth, chirping excitedly she quickly snatches up the remainder and gobbles it down hastily.)

Ashreilynn beams happily at Sarlena!

(Ashreilynn sneaks a plate of her sandwiches to each of the other observers quietly while she watches Zaneon.) [he'd just started on his dish]

(Cylnthia beams silently as Ashreilynn walks past, greedily grabbing the plate of tasty chocolate goodness.)

Ashreilynn giggles at Cylnthia.

Ashreilynn grins.

Entry #4: Zaneon's Truffles of Voaris

(Zaneon leans his cane against the pantry.)

Zaneon rubs his chin thoughtfully.

Zaneon removes a storm grey iron cauldron from in his spidersilk backpack.

Zaneon rubs a storm grey iron cauldron in his hand.

Zaneon drops a storm grey iron cauldron.

Zaneon cracks his knuckles!

Pinching the toggle on his canvas satchel, Zaneon opens the flap to the ear-shattering shriek of a phoenix.

Glancing at his canvas satchel, Zaneon whispers something. Almost instantly, the phoenix stitched upon its side comes to life and disappears within its confines. Squawking and cawing issues from within, but moments later the tiny beast returns and hands him a dark chocolate heart pierced with a white chocolate arrow before settling back into its customary place upon the side.

Zaneon rubs a dark chocolate heart pierced with a white chocolate arrow in his hand.

Zaneon softly says, "They say that cooking should always be done with a heart full of love to the dish itself and all the patrons that consume it."

Zaneon softly says, "A dish should inspire a memory....a feeling."

Zaneon kneels down.

(Zaneon rummages through his robe and adds many pieces of chocolate sourced from every corner of the lands to his cauldron.)

Zaneon continues to beseech the gods for mercy and guidance.

Zaneon recites softly:

"Tonight with my heart held high I beseech Voaris patron of young and forbidden love...may all who taste this treat remember your vow to bring together the hearts of all and fill them endlessly with love."

(Zaneon, with his prayer to Voaris, fireballs the cauldron till the chocolate boils and bubbles turning a deep shade of red.)

(Zaneon pulls some yellow rose petals from a pocket of his robe and sprinkles them over the boiling mixture of chocolates as each petal touches the chocolate the cauldron churns with a deeper shade of red magicks.)

Zaneon stands up.

Zaneon bows to a storm grey iron cauldron.

(Zaneon pulls out a jar of candied raspberries glimmering with sugar.)

(Zaneon grins widely as he opens the jar as spreads them along a try wavering his dark chocolate heart over them until each candied raspberry beat with a life of their own.)

(Zaneon stows the jar then lifts the cooling cauldron pouring it perfectly over each raspberry making tiny little tasty truffles.)

(Zaneon blows a kiss over each truffle cooling them lovingly.)

(Zaneon offers the Voaris truffle to the judges first then to each other attendee.)

Zaneon recites softly:

"As you bite into the heart-shaped Voaris truffle, multiple layers of chocolate sourced from around the lands blend together which such decadence that it instantly reminds you of your last perfect kiss."

Zaneon recites softly:

"Layers of sinful chocolate fill nearly every sensation as you bite deeper into its candied raspberry heart. The sensation is as welcoming as the arms of a tender lover leaving you breathless and aching for another."

Zaneon bows.

Entry #5: Umbazi's Lava Cake and Ice Cream

Umbazi smiles as he places a stick of butter and the chocolate in an enamel frying pan, simmering them for just long enough to melt them both and then removing the pan from the stove, pouring the mixture into a bowl, and whisking them.

(Umbazi folds in the sugar, stirring until it is well blended with the butter and chocolate.)

(Umbazi breaks the whole eggs into the mixture, then pours in the egg yolks. He then stirs them into the mix.)

Umbazi smiles as he stirs in the flour.

(Umbazi adds a dash of vanilla and then stirs in the flour.)

(Umbazi pauses a moment to rub the four ramekins on the counter with the second stick of softened butter. When the interiors of the tart baking pans are butter coated, Umbazi pours the mixture into the pans and places them in the oven.)

(Umbazi waits until the oven shows that the sides of the small cakes are firm and the centers are soft. He then gets oven mitts from the Head Cook, pulls the pans from the oven, upends each cake onto a nearly transparent porcelain plate, and knifes each one open, revealing liquid chocolate seeping delectably from the harder chocolate shells.)

Umbazi smiles as he scoops blueberry ice cream sprinkled with hard candy strawberry owls on each plate. He then adds forks and offers three plates to the three judges.

Umbazi says, "Chocolate lava cakes, with twilight blue icecream."

Umbazi says, "It seemed appropriate."

Leafiara delightedly exclaims, "It's so pretty it's almost a shame to eat!"

Leafiara mischievously says, "But only almost."

Umbazi says, "Well, please eat them. Think how sad the cakes would be if you didn't."

Umbazi says, "Their whole purpose in life would be destroyed."

Umbazi says, "Also there is an extra cake..."

Umbazi says, "Which I should probably divide into thirds."

(Umbazi cuts up the remaining lava cake into thirds, one for each judge, and adds a mini-scoop of the ice cream and candies to the thirds.)

(Umbazi hands the thirds out.)

Umbazi nods.

Entry #6: Angellos' Cookie Creation

(Angellos starts painting on a piece of paper with careful brushstrokes. Soon the colorful pictures come to life.)

(Angellos puts the easel and paintbrush aside and focuses on the three dimensional life-like cookie.)

(Angellos's cookie looks good enough to eat.)

(Angellos spins the cookie palm facing upwards and adds a dab of cherry like sprinkles.)

(Angellos' cookie is beginning to look more life-like by the second.)

(Angellos adds a little sign next to the cookie that reads,"Frosted.")

(Angellos holds up the cookie for inspection.)

Decisions

Leafiara declares, "This was an incredibly tough decision!"

Leafiara exclaims, "And aside from our winner tonight, everyone's vote totals were very close!"

Leafiara says, "Before I start naming winners, I want to say..."

Leafiara sincerely exclaims, "We thought every chef tonight did amazingly, and we'll be awarding everyone a small prize from our prize closet!"

Leafiara mischievously exclaims, "Except for our winner, who gets a -bigger- prize from our prize closet!"

Leafiara exclaims, "So!"

Leafiara says, "Working our way up..."

Leafiara recites:

"At the back we have Angellos' creative art-come-to-life cookie!"

Leafiara recites:

"The judges loved the sheer creativity of the idea!"

Leafiara recites:

"Coming up next after him was Rainedrop!"

Leafiara recites:

"We absolutely adored the final product!"

Leafiara recites:

"One of the fanciest dishes tonight for certain!"

Leafiara recites:

"And then beyond her by a mere one point was..."

Leafiara recites:

"Regwen!"

Leafiara recites:

"We really liked her tassies and the care she put into her cooking process!"

Leafiara recites:

"Ahead of her by one point, there was actually a two-way tie..."

Leafiara recites:

"And we'll go ahead and give a medium prize to these first-place-but-not-grand-prize winners..."

Leafiara recites:

"It's Ashreilynn and Umbazi, whose presentations, cooking processes, and final products blew us away!"

Leafiara recites:

"We adored the confections for both taste and delivery!"

Leafiara recites:

"And that brings us to our grand prize..."

Leafiara recites:

"You already know who..."

Leafiara recites: "But what you don't know..."

Leafiara recites:

"Is that Zaneon took the first place vote from every single judge!"

Leafiara recites:

"A unanimous decision, we thought your touch of Voaris was simply incredible! Made all the memories you hoped for!"

Leafiara cheerfully exclaims, "And with that... we call this an incredible success!"