11.20.2025 Kids Cooking Challenge Winners Announcement
| Congratulations Kids Cooking Challengers! Announcing The 2025 Kids Cooking Challenge Winners! 🎉 🏆 Advanced Teen: Chef Reba Lentil Bowl with Cranberry Vinaigrette 🏆 Advanced 12 and under: Chef Lucy Butternut squash soup with lentil crackers and roasted Brussels sprouts and cranberry rosemary artisan bread 🏆 Beginner 12 and under: Kira’s Kitchen Lentil Veggie Soup with Fancy Cranberry Dessert 🏆 Beginner 12 and under: Daniella’s Food Haven Cranberry-Yogurt Glazed Ribs on Silky Glass Noodles 🏆 Team Category: West Salem Boys and Girls Club Chefs Lentil Cranberry Wrap with Yogurt Sauce 🏆 Team Category: Skogen Boys and Girls Club Chefs Green Goddess Soup Every young chef who participated in this year’s challenge has so much to be proud of. The entries were creative and challenging. To see all of the dishes and notes from the contestants go to our website: GROWLaCrosse.org/kids-cooking-challenge-entries/ |
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| A Note from the Judges Each year our judges have the biggest challenge of all – choosing the winners! All of the cooking challenge participants put so much thought, creativity and talent behind their dishes. Every young chef has so much to be proud of. We appreciate our judges taking time to comb through the results and share their impressions of your creations. Here are some reflections from this year’s judges: The ECE program had a great time getting to look over everyone’s submissions and their hard work, and getting the opportunity to judge their creations. The air was charged with intensity over being able to judge the dishes we were shown. It was fun! It was really fun; We loved the scoring process and the categories of which we had to judge. Specifically, and especially the “appetizing/appearance” and “creativity” categories. Everyone was super creative with what they made and how they went about it too, and I’m very proud of everyone. We saw so many different kinds of food, even with the limited ingredients they had at their disposal. We saw soups, tacos, noodles with ribs – and to you, chefs, we tip our hats. Noodles and ribs have different cooking times, being able to balance both so neither ended up at a different temperature from the other was likely a challenge. We are very proud of these chefs. Everyone was so creative with what they made. We had a blast, and we hope the students involved had fun as well. – Western Technical College Early Childhood Development Class Thank you WTC Students for sharing your time and skills to evaluate the entries! |
| Thank You Vicki Miller & Festival Foods This year’s Kids Cooking Challenge is sponsored by Vicki Miller and Festival Foods. Thanks to their generous donations participants are able to take on this challenge free of charge. Many thanks to these sponsors for recognizing the importance of giving youth a chance to build their cooking skills, increase exposure to healthy food and provide this confidence boosting opportunity. |
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