SF Food Wars

In less than 2 weeks from now, we’re going to partake in one of the most random, but surely super cookie-licious SF Food Wars events to date! The Chocolate Cookie Situation promises to (J)WOW(W) your palate to the point where your hair gets blown out without a single blow dryer in sight!

Read on to get a glimpse of the tastiness to come…announcing our 20 official Team Numbers, Team Names, and Cookie Names, plus descriptions!

1. Team Ron-Ron Juice / J-WOWW’s Juice Heads / soft dark chocolate sandwich cookies with a tart & sweet orange filling

2. Sweet Constructions / Chocolate Crackle / rich chocolate drops with a crisp sugar coating and a soft chocolate brownie center

3. Betty Bump-it / Beat Up the Beets / chocolate biscuit with candied beets…so good you might decide to “stalk my whole life” after you try one

4. Steph’s Cafe / Mint Mojo / naughty thin mint of your darkest, chocolatiest green-miniskirted fantasies come true

5. You Wanna Piece of Me? / Israeli Chocolate Cookie Balls / Peace, love, and sufganiyot. Even “The Situation” would sacrifice a pec or two for a taste of these Israeli balls of deep fried chocolate dough & deliciousness

6. Clown Her Out / guidoreos / homemade “oreos” made with high-quality & organic ingredients…bump it!

7. Baby Jo / Pants on the Ground Cookies / These make you want to leave the office and do some GTLB (Gym, Tan, Laundry, Bake) with the smoooothest peanut butter and loaded up with chocolate

8. Deez Nutz are Hot! / Hot Summer Asphalt Cookies / chewy spicy chocolate oatmeal cookie with nuts

9. 10-2-D-27 / Snookie’s Cookie Whoopsies / red velvet cocoa sandwich cookies with cream cheese & white chocolate “teeth” frosting. Snookie got punched in the face, it got red and swollen, and she thought she lost some teeth!

10. The Frosted Tips / Throwing Shapes / New Jersey-shaped chocolate cookie with salted caramel drizzle and a dusting of fleur de sel

11. Chicks with Whisks / The Chocolatey Oatmealicious Cookie Sandwich Experience / two oatmeal cookies and cream cheese frosting sandwiched in between, coated in chocolate ganache

12. Bike Basket Pies / Not Your Mama’s Sandwich Cookie / chocolate cookies sandwiching a lavender creme filling

13. Team Rocket Baby / Mo’ Choco-Latte / chocolate espresso drop cookies

14. MaliNumNum Treats / “Famous” Toffee, Choco Chip, Nut Cookies / chocolate chip cookies with toffee bits & toasted walnuts

15. Team Ready, Willing & Mable / Stumbling Stoners / lightly sweet shortbread filled with toasted walnuts and crushed potato chips dipped in dark chocolate

16. The SnookieMonster / Snookies N cream / vegan homemade gooeyness that mom used to make plus nabisco deliciousness you hate to love…a cookie within a cookie, a serious cookie situation

17. Sweet Nosh / Bump-a-licious Snooki Cookie / oatmeal coconut almond and chocolate chunk cookies

18. Yo! Cookie! / Fist-Pumpin’ Brownie Chunk Cookies / over-the-top cookie filled to the max with chunks of brownie – so good they’ll make you want to beat back the music

19. Bump It / Cuckoo for Cocoa-Nut / “The Situation” would describe these cookies as “panty-droppin”…walnuts, chocolate, coconut (inspired by Snookie’s big coconuts), come together in a sweet and disc of delight

20. Smack and Blue / Happy as a Sam / clam-shaped espresso-chocolate shortbread

Chomping chocolate cookies, gettin’ bizzy on the dance floor at Mighty, fist pumping, sippin’ cocktails, voting, winning…yo there ain’t NOTHING wrong with this situation!

SF Food Wars: The Chocolate Cookie Situation will bring to you 20 top competitors toting all sorts of delicious cookies loaded with chocolate and inspired by clubbing at the Jersey Shore. So whether it’s Snookie Cookies, Cocoa Ron Rons, or Muscle Mocha Sandwiches you crave, there is no doubt you’ll get your fill of clubbin’ & cookies on a Sunday afternoon!

CALL FOR COMPETITORS:
Yo. Do you make a fist pump-worthy cookie with chocolate in it?? Is it inspired by clubbing at the Jersey Shore? Word. Email us at with the following info to apply to compete: Your Name, Cookie Name, Cookie Description, Phone Number, Email Address

Your cookie must feature chocolate in some way! Timeliness and enthusiasm are key because we will select our competitors within just a few days.
* Bridge Brands Chocolate will provide each competitor with 2 pounds of top-quality gourmet chocolate discs in the percentage of their choice!

TICKET SEEKERS:
This is a 21+ event! IDs will be checked. Tickets (limited to 200) will go on sale on Friday, March 5th at 12pm noon! Tickets are $14. Just click the “Get Tickets” button on this site, sffoodwars.com, which will appear when they go on sale. Limit 4 tickets per ticket buyer.

- Frickin’ hot nightclub attire is highly encouraged! -

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Marylene Williams caused many to sprout a smile with her very informative display and tasty “100% Sprouted Grain Bread”! We heard a good handful of people proclaim this bread to be “what [they] would love to have sitting on their kitchen counter every day.” Tres complimentary! Continue reading for recipe…
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Photo courtesy of Tamara Palmer at SF Weekly

Team BasilBrain brought it fo realz with their sass ‘n class….we didn’t see anyone else drinking beer out of martini glasses! Their Fabulously Flawless French Herb Bread was stuffed to the gills with savory additions like garlic, onion, parsley, and (DUH) butter! This flavor-packed crowd favorite treat had people coming back for seconds and thirds! You can read about their first hand experience on the BasilBrain blog and continue reading for recipe…
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Team Wild Yeast brought savory/sweet/sour sophistication to the game with “Semolina Sourdough with Fennel, Currants, and Pine Nuts” loaves! This bread, laced with delicious grown-up flavors, garnered many a vote, deeming it a true crowd favorite. Read about this competitor’s experience on the Wild Yeast blog, and continue reading for recipe…
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Whoa whoa whoa. Are you sure you can handle this? I mean, it IS called “The Hurricane” for yeast’s sake! Team Fire in the Fornix’s adventurous seaweed, sesame, and brown-rice concoction, inspired by the flavors of Hawaiian popcorn, stole the collective heart of the people, thus grabbing that coveted People’s Choice award. There was a lot of chatter about how crazy delicious a slice-a-dis would taste topped with a fried egg!! Continue reading for recipe…
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Jen Rosa took the classic San Francisco loaf and studded it with just enough fresh rosemary to make the judges declare her Rosemary Sourdough #1. Make the day sweeter by making this sourly herbaceous bread! Continue reading for recipe…
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Team Rocket Baby snagged the Judges’ 2nd Place prize with a snazzy loaf studded with cherries and walnuts, appropriately named “Cherry Poppin’ Walnut.” Just in time for V-Day, make somma deez for your sweetie pie, or if you’re solo now, make it all for yourself and eat bread all day! It’s win-win, people! Continue reading for recipe…
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The Fancy Boyz swept the Photog’s Choice prize with their antique-ishly decorated bread display, complete with bow ties and burnt parchment. Their bread du jour, “Pain a l’Ancienne”, was not only part of a great display, but got a bunch of votes and was a real crowd favorite! Bake and enjoy this fanciness, boyz and girlz! Continue reading for recipe…
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Yeast Affliction was an all-around super exciting, carbo-loaded, fun time! Competitors showcased a rainbow of breads; some chose to rise above the norm and others took us back to bake-sics. Check out our review in limerick form:

Eaters lined up down the block.
They rushed Thirsty Bear ’round twelve o’clock.
They checked in at the front,
And prepared for the hunt
To find that one vote-worthy snäck!

Competitors younger and older
Presented breads subtle and bolder.
Ready to fight,
They all were polite,
Yet inside wished their neighbors to smolder!

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