For Immediate Release

Excelsior Apple Day: Using Grandmas Recipe

Excelsior Apple Day will be held on Saturday September 20th, 2014 and will feature locally produced food, art, antiques, handicrafts and a good old-fashioned street dance. Two contests are returning this year, an apple pie/dessert contest and an apple pie eating contest.

The Excelsior Apple Day Apple Pie/Apple Dessert Baking Contest will have 6 entry categories: Home Baked All-American Apple Pie, Commercial All-American Apple Pie, Home Baked Creative Apple Pie, Home Baked Apple Dessert, Commercial Apple Dessert, and Youth Apple Pie & Dessert (ages 15 and under). Participants should deliver their entries to Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Chamber of Commerce on Water Street in Excelsior that Saturday morning between 10-11am for registration and submission.

This years contest judges will be Marjorie Johnson, author of Blue Ribbon Baking and frequent guest of the Late Night with Jay Leno Show, Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Chambers 2014 Person of the Year, Martie McGlasson and Chip Cheney 2014 President of the Lake Minnetonka-Excelsior Rotary.

All baking contest participants will receive a free pass to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. First and second place category winners will receive an Excelsior Apple Day pie plate created by Andrea Falconer of Stones Throw Pottery based in Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Baking contest winners will be announced at 12 noon on the Kowalski's Markets Apple Day stage on Second Street. After the winners are announced, all of those delicious apple pies and apple dessert entries will be available for purchase. All proceeds will go to ICA Food Shelf.

The Excelsior Apple Day Apple Pie/Apple Dessert Baking Contest is sponsored by Brightwater Clothing & Gear.

The Excelsior Apple Day Apple Pie Eating Contest will be a classic. There will be two categories: adult and child. Registration for the Apple Pie Eating Contest will be at the Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Chamber of Commerce on Water Street. The pie eating contests will be held on the Apple Day stage at noon, immediately following the announcement of the baking contest winners. Winners will receive a medal and a contribution will be made to ICA Foodshelf in their name, courtesy of Zydeco Design.

The Excelsior Apple Day Apple Pie Eating Contest is sponsored by Kowalskis Markets and Zydeco Design.

Visit the Excelsior Apple Day Facebook page for updates on the baking and eating contests: https://www.facebook.com/ExcelsiorAppleDay?ref=hl

Visit the Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Chamber website for the full Apple Day schedule: http://www.excelsior-lakeminnetonkachamber.com/apple-day.html

Register for the Apple Pie/Dessert Baking Contest:http://www.excelsior-lakeminnetonkachamber.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/13757584/ad_pie_dessert_contest_application_2013.pdf