Everything is shaping up well for the RACM Chocolate Festival Fundraiser!!!
CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:
9 am Begin accepting entries for Chocolate Challenge dessert contests
10 am CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL OPENS TO THE PUBLIC
10:30 am Cutoff time for deliveries of Chocolate Challenge entries
10:45 am Judging begins for Chocolate Challenge
11 am Chocolate Demonstration by professional chef Walter Viegelmann
11 am Chocolate Fountain opens
12 noon Book signing by Foy Allen Edelman, author of Sweet Carolina
12:30 pm Presentation of winners of the Chocolate Challenge dessert contests
2 pm “How to Walk the Fashion Runway”, Miss Moore County Summer Hennings
2 pm “How to Walk the Fashion Runway”, Miss Moore County Summer Hennings
2:30 pm Book signing ends.
3 pm “Runway Chocolate: a Chocolate-Inspired Fashion Show”
5 pm Presentation of winners of Runway Chocolate
Silent Auction rolling closeout begins (one table each 15 minutes)
5:30 pm Presentation of People’s Choice winners from all contests
6 pm CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL ENDS
6 pm CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL ENDS
The Chocolate Festival will be on Saturday, May 5th from 10 am to 6 pm at Smyrna United Methodist Church Robbins , NC.
RACM is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps with the needs of the greater Robbins community (basically all of Moore County that is north of Carthage) with a Food Bank, assistance with utility bills and occasional other assistance. All money raised at the Chocolate Festival will go to help with utility bill assistance.
At the Chocolate Festival, RACM volunteers will be celebrating and serving chocolate in many forms: chocolate candies, chocolate baked goods, and chocolate drinks.
One main event of the morning will be a Chocolate Challenge dessert contest with three categories for entry: Cakes and Cupcakes, Other Chocolate Desserts, and Best-Looking Chocolate Creation. Professional entries will be judged separately from amateur desserts. Make your best chocolate dessert and bring it to the Chocolate Festival! There is no entry fee, but desserts are a donation to RACM and will be sold after the judging.
All day at the Chocolate Festival, volunteers will be selling tasting cards (sample 10 items for $2) individual servings, and whole cakes. A Chocolate Fountain will be up and going, with fruit and other goodies. There will be a Small Gift Area as well, with inexpensive items for sale.
The Silent Auction will have a "Buy it Now" option just like eBay, so if you can’t stay the entire day, you can go on and make your purchases and take them home! Included in the Silent Auction are whole cakes by terrific home bakers, handmade crafts, and lots of themed gift baskets which will make terrific Mother’s Day presents! RACM has gathered together a super assortment of “chocolate” items for this section of the festival. Featured will be chocolate plants, chocolate apparel, chocolate home products, chocolate body care, and many other items fitting for a Chocolate Festival!
At 11 am, professional pastry chef Walter Viegelmann will offer a Chocolate Demonstration on finishing a chocolate cake, starting with how to slice layers evenly, then stacking and icing, and ending with decorating.
Walter is a Culinary Institute of America graduate who worked with other professional chefs and restaurants before opening the bakery Tullio’s in Duck, NC. Tullio’s was featured on The Food Network as a “Food Find.” Now Walter runs Desserts by Walter Tullio and makes fine baked goods on order.
At noon begins a Book Signing by Foy Allen Edelman, author of Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State. Foy will sign cookbooks, answer questions about North Carolina
Foy Allen Edelman loves to both cook and to read recipes. The family stories behind those cherished recipes especially interest her. For this cookbook she traveled all across our state, collecting favorite recipes and meeting many home cooks from across North Carolina
A hotdog lunch and supper at Heavenly Chocolate Café will include the ever-popular Debra's Baked Beans. Chocolate drinks will be offered as well and you can take your pick of numerous chocolate desserts.
At 2 pm the current Miss Moore County
Beginning at 3 pm will be Runway Chocolate: a Chocolate-Inspired Fashion Show! There are two categories: High Style and Silly. This will be a light and fun fashion show. If you don't enter, try to come and watch!
Local actress Teresa Thomas will be MC for the fashion show and the judges for Runway Chocolate will be Annette Jordan, Style Editor of the Courier-Tribune of Asheboro; Beth Gore, of Cady Clayworks; and Chris Dunn of the Arts Council of Moore County.
A panel of six judges from outside the Robbins area will select the winners of the Chocolate Challenge. They are Linda Carnes-McNaughton, archaeologist at Fort Bragg and President of the North Carolina Pottery Center; Kirk McNaughton, Research Analyst in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology and Director of the Histology Core Facility at UNC-CH, who on the side specializes in both cooking and eating; Jessica Ledbetter, Outreach Coordinator at the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, Sandhills Location; Lee Calhoun, apple expert and noted author of Southern Heritage Apples and other books; Foy Allen Edelman, author of Sweet Carolina, a cookbook of desserts from across our state; and Foy’s willing husband Jerry Edelman, who simply loves chocolate!
“We decided this year to do something different for the Robbins Area Christian Ministries
Details of the Chocolate Festival fundraiser and information about Robbins Area Christian Ministries
Needs are still increasing in the northern end of Moore County Robbins Area Christian Ministries
To get to Smyrna Church from the south, take Highway 705 North out of Robbins, turn right on N. Howard Mill Rd, take the second road to the left (Smyrna Church Road), then go about 1 1/2miles. Smyrna United Methodist Church
To get to Smyrna Church from the north, take Highway 705 South out of Seagrove, go about 7 ½ miles, then turn left on Busbee Road, go straight at the first stop sign (Busbee Road will become Cedar Hill Road), then go about 1 1/2miles further and turn right on Smyrna Church Road. Smyrna United Methodist Church
There is no entry fee for admission into the Chocolate Festival, though to do anything but look will cost money. It is a fundraiser after all!
MANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS !!!
PREMIUM SPONSORS:
QUALITY SPONSORS:
Smyrna United Methodist Church Women, Robbins, NC
Northern Moore Family Resource Center, Robbins, NC
Tabernacle United Methodist Church, Robbins, NC
Patricia G. Palmer, Raleigh, NC
BASIC SPONSORS:
Dr. Daniel A. Livingstone, Raleigh, NC
Westmoore Pottery, Seagrove, NC
Kinza's Creations, Robbins, NC
Robbins Small Engine Feeds and Accessories, Robbins, NC
Brown's Chapel Christian Church, Robbins, NC
Whole Foods Market, Raleigh, NC
First Bank, Seagrove, NC
Seagrove Creations, Seagrove, NC
North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC
Mickey Brown, Robbins, NC
Thigpen and Jenkins, Robbins, NC
Smyrna UMC Joy Group, Robbins, NC
First Wesleyan Church, Robbins, NC
Jerry Darnell, Mill Creek Forge, Robbins, NC
Elise Presbyterian Church, Robbins, NC
First Bank, Robbins, NC
Mary Farrell, Seagrove, NC
