Now in its fifth year, PastryScoop.com's Golden Scoop Awards celebrate innovation, creativity, and excellence in the pastry arts. The awards attract applications from top pastry chefs, bakers, and confectioners from around the country, including those commended by the James Beard Foundation Awards, StarChefs.com Rising Stars Revue, and Pastry Art & Design's 10 Best Pastry Chefs in America. This year, in addition to being featured on PastryScoop.com and in Food Arts, each winner will also receive a $1,000 prize!

Professional chefs, bakers, and confectioners were invited to submit entries in any of the five award categories:

• Best Dessert Menu – creativity, originality, balance, and overall appeal of menu concepts
• Most Innovative Dessert – innovative use of flavor, ingredients, or technique in a plated dessert
• Best Dessert Revival – adaptation of a classic or nostalgic dessert from the past in a plated dessert
• Best Confection – overall execution of a candy or confection
• Best Bakery Recipe – overall execution of a baked good

The deadline for entries was May 12, 2008.

The Golden Scoop Awards Ceremony will take place on Monday, June 23rd in The International Culinary Theater at The French Culinary Institute in New York City.

• Click here to read about contest eligibility and judging.
• Read about winners from previous years: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

The Golden Scoop Awards were made possible with support from