Twelve days of sweet designs, recap and giveaway.

Every day for the past few weeks, I've walked by a baking sheet lined with my modeling chocolate designs and couldn't help but smile.  Each decoration has it's own charm and I really do love them all. When I look at the picture above I see so many possibilities. I'm not sure of the exact mathematical calculation but if you have twelve different designs that can be attached to twelve different sweets, that's a lot of combinations.

I would never have imagined, before I began this project, that so many Christmas designs could be made by starting with a simple egg shape. Every Christmas decoration I looked at over the past month was scrutinized, trying to see if it was a candidate for this project. I did have a few failed attempts, some of which were totally revamped and did actually make it into the series, while others had to be scrapped.

Here are two that didn't make the cut. Although I thought my attempt at making an angel worked, my husband didn't. He just didn't get that the girl pictured above was an angel. He thought she looked like she was wearing a headband, not a halo, so she was replace by Mrs. Claus.  At least the angel design came together quickly, so I didn't feel I wasted a lot of time. That cannot be said of the sled dog design. I spent four hours trying to get this one to work out, but I just didn't like anything I did. I tried so many techniques to get the dog's fur to look right, but in the end just didn't think he was cute enough for Christmas.

I need your help in deciding which decoration is the best of the series. I'm going to enter one of the designs in a contest and just can't decide which one makes the biggest impression. I want to know which design you like the best and one lucky reader will win some supplies to create his/her own modeling chocolate masterpieces. I hope I have inspired you to try your hand at making and working with modeling chocolate. If you'd like your chance at winning, see the information below.

Giveaway/Sweepstakes

Prize

The most important item you'll need to make any modeling chocolate designs, the chocolate.

1 pound dark chocolate

1 pound milk chocolate

1 pound white confectionery coating

  

1 egg shaped cookie cutter

1 set of round cutters

1 set of assorted cutters

#4, #10, #12 round pastry tip

50 lollipops sticks

50 craft sticks

50 cellophane bags

Total value is over $50

  

Anyone over the age of 18 can enter except where prohibited by law.

TO ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY do at least one, any, or all of the following to qualify:

(I know what a pain it can be to leave lots of comments, so I'll make it easy on you. You can leave all of your entries in one comment. I'll just count down the eligible entries to find the winner. See my sample entry below.)

1 entry - Answer: Which design is your favorite?

Christmas Mouse

 Polar Bear

Inuit Children

Reindeer

  Santa Claus

 Elves

Snowmen

Toy Soldier

Mrs. Claus

Christmas Carolers

Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Lights

Or

the design that started it all the  Penguins

1 entry - Answer: Which sweet are you most likely to adorn with a modeling chocolate design?

frosted sugar cookie

marshmallow fluff frosted rice krispies treats

frosted brownies

chocolate lollipops

frosted cookie pops

chocolate covered caramel pops

chocolate covered marshmallow

Toy Soldier

chocolate covered peanut butter fudge

white chocolate candy bars

creamy coconut candy

pastry pockets filled with Nutella

or

chocolate covered rice krispies treat pops

2 entries - if you follow or become a follower of this blog

2 entries - if you LIKE Hungry Happenings on Facebook

2 entries - for each of the Twelve Days of Sweet Designs you

post on your blog or website, or on Pinterest or Facebook (leave link to your page)

5 entries- for each of the Twelve Days of Sweet Designs you Stumble Upon (list recipe/s stumbled)

5 entries- for Stumbling Upon this blog post

If you have previously done any of these things, they qualify, just leave a comment letting me know!
Just a reminder that all your comments will be posted once they are moderated by me
which may take a while if I'm not at my computer when you post.

Entry deadline is December 31, 2011  11:59 p.m. EST / US.

Winner to be drawn at random from all entries. Entrants must reside in the United States and be over 18 years of age. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. Odds of winning are based on the total number of valid entries (maximum of three entries per person.) Winner will be notified and have 72 hours to respond. If they don't respond in that time frame another winner will be chosen. 

Winner will be announced by January 2, 2012.

Good luck!

I supplied the prizes for this contest. If your company would like to sponsor a contest on this blog, please contact me at beth@hungryhappenings.com.

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