Annual Chocolate Fest celebrates 20 years of chocolate
On Feb. 10, chefs from all over Cache Valley will be gathered to compete, in chocolate.
The Chocolate Festival is a fund-raiser held by Cache Valley Planned Parenthood, and this is its 20th year. To mark this special occasion, special sampler bags of sweets will be sold, and a silent auction will take place at the same time.
At 6:30 p.m. in the Bullen Center located at 43 S. Main Street, both professional and amateur chefs will have dishes to be sampled by judges and the public.
Coupon books will be sold at the door for $5, purchasing five “tastes” of chocolate. The public can nominate their favorites for the people’s choice awards.
“It is a wonderful experience,” Colleen O’Neil, an organizer for the event, said. “There are all types of entries. Some mothers and daughters make it a tradition to enter together.”
“Some staff members at USU have won a few of the contests,” O’Neil said.
Following the preliminary judging, the winners will be announced and a live auction will begin.
The prize-winning desserts will be auctioned off. “This is a fund-raiser, so people will spend $20 on a plate of cookies,” O’Neil said.
Planned Parenthood is the organization for which the money is being raised. It is an organization that “serves the reproductive needs of Cache Valley,” O’Neil said.
“Students will enjoy the chocolate, and Planned Parenthood offers affordable health-care, and a large percentage of the student body does use this organization,” O’Neil said.
-skjohson@cc.usu.edu