The Samford Crimson

Issue date: 11/7/07 Section: Expressions

Media Credit: Pat Terry Senior Meagan Morris places raspberries on top of Krispy Kremey White-Chocolate Raspberry-Filled Cheesecake. This recipe placed third in the overall competition.

Twelve nutrition majors gave several hours of their time on Friday and Saturday to prepare and taste 30 semi-finalist recipes submitted to Taste of the South magazine's Ultimate Krispy Kreme Recipe Contest.

The contest was a joint effort between Taste of the South and Krispy Kreme. The only rules of the contest were to make a dessert and use a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Taste of the South editor Lorna Reeves said the magazine received over 1,700 recipes by the deadline of Oct. 15.

Reeves and Betty Terry, food editor, went through all of the recipes and weeded out the ones that were merely suggestions for new doughnut flavors and the ones that weren't desserts. They narrowed it down to 200 "viable entries," Reeves said. The two categorized the recipes by type of dessert, such as bread puddings or trifles, and then chose the top recipes from each category to make the list of 30 potential finalists.

Reeves said she was looking at several schools to prepare and taste test the 30 best recipes and chose Samford because of the ties between the magazine and the school. Reeves is a Samford graduate herself.

Samford nutrition students prepared and tested these 30 recipes on campus last Friday and Saturday. Each day involved five hours of testing.

The group selected 10 recipe finalists based on taste, texture, creative use of doughnuts and appearance.

Junior nutrition major Emily Smith participated on Saturday.

Smith said it was fun to see "how many different things you can actually do with doughnuts."

"We made cheesecake crusts and bread puddings and ice creams. And of course the taste testing was fun too, but I sort of felt sick after a while," Smith said with a laugh. "I pretty much don't want to see a doughnut for another year."

Nutrition professor Pat Terry worked closely with the students throughout the taste testing process.

"It was exciting for our students because it was a national contest," she said. "(We got) to be part of something a lot bigger than Samford."

Smith said the students faced the challenge of interpreting each recipe since not everyone included detailed instructions in the recipe.

"Some sent recipes without specific instructions, so we had to make do," Terry said.

The final taste testing was on Tuesday at Krispy Kreme at 2:30 p.m. Judges from across the country came for this final tasting. The winning recipe was Extreme Pumpkin Cheesecake from a reader in Tempe, Ariz. Second place went to a recipe for Krispy Caramel and Cashew Kreme Tart.

Terry said she was happy with the results because the top two recipes were also some of the students' favorite dishes.

Go to www.tasteofthesouthmagazine.com for the winning recipe.

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