HBC Annual Spaghetti Dinner & Dessert Contest

Every year the men look forward to donning their aprons, cracking the cookbooks (or daring to sail the uncharted waters of Pinterest) for our church's annual Spaghetti Dinner & Men's Dessert Contest. Remember last year's Super-sized Hamburger? or 2010's Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cake? or 2009's Piano Cake?  or our introduction to the serious fun at our first contest?  We've had fun every year. This year was no exception, and even Marshall got in on the fun.

Taigen & Marshall's entry this year came straight off of a find on Pinterest. It looked easy enough. They made a practice one and we all critiqued it as if we were all chefs on Food Network. Taigen and Marshall tweaked things in their mind, and when it came to making it, they were all business. I stayed out of things, and just had fun watching and snapping up pictures.

In the end, they entitled it "Barrel of Goodness." It looked like a giant barrel of M&M's which would have gotten my vote, but actually it was a moist, yellow cake with homemade frosting, surrounded by Kit Kats and tied off with a red ribbon. Doesn't it just look fantastic?

No, they didn't win. But they sure had fun putting it together (i.e. father/son time...priceless). There were tons of desserts at the church: cheesecakes, mousse, sour cream & strawberry cakes, peanut butter balls (made with peanut butter and Velveeta...really!), an espresso cake that looked like it walked right off of a magazine, and so, so much more. In the end, here are some of the winners:

Mike & Nate did the Rubik's Cube/Golf Course cake, Lee did the Strawberry Yogurt Cake & Jerry did the Chocolate Mousse (he came later and I didn't get a picture...sorry!)