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Dunkin' Donuts opens voting for donut creation contest finalists
May 18, 2009
CANTON, Mass. — Dunkin' Donuts' has announced the 12 finalists in its first-ever "Create Dunkin's Next Donut" contest. Chosen from among nearly 130,000 new donut creation online submissions, the finalists will compete for the chance to win a $12,000 grand prize and have their winning donut sold in participating Dunkin' Donuts locations throughout the country.
Americans can vote for their favorite finalist online. The lucky dozen includes:
- "A Nutter One" — A chocolate butter kreme-filled donut with peanut butter icing and chopped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (Carol D'Angio, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.)
- "Bodacious Banana" — A Bananas Foster-filled donut with chocolate icing topped with shredded coconut (Christine Roman, Ellenville, N.Y.)
- "Chocolate Monkey" — A Bananas Foster-filled donut with chocolate icing topped with Hershey's Milk Chocolate shavings (Michelle Ventura, Cranston, R.I.)
- "Economic Crunch" — A cake donut with chocolate icing topped with graham cracker crunch and butternut crunch (Michael McNeil, Aliso Viejo, Calif.)
- "Frozen Assets" — A chocolate mint Bavarian-filled donut with white icing topped with blue and green sprinkles (Kimberly Brooks, Orlando, Fla.)
- "Grandma's Blueberry Maple Donut" — A blueberry cake donut with maple icing topped with graham cracker crunch (Caitlyn Vandervelde, Coventry, R.I.)
- "Mexican Hot Chocolate" — A chocolate cake stick filled with marshmallow and topped with chocolate icing, Hershey's Cinnamon shavings and Hershey's Vanilla shavings (Jane Boderck, Easton, Pa.)
- "Sm'OREO" — A marshmallow-filled donut with chocolate icing topped with OREO cookie pieces and graham cracker crunch (Laura Sherland, Smithtown, N.Y.)
- "The Graham Slam" — A marshmallow-filled donut with chocolate icing topped with graham cracker crunch and white sprinkles (Nevrie Dauti, Wayne, N.J.)
- "The King" — A Bananas Foster-filled donut with peanut butter icing and chopped peanuts (James Smith, Mount Vernon, N.Y.)
- "Toffee For Your Coffee" — A glazed, sour cream cake donut topped with chopped Heath Bar (Jeff Hager, Hoover, Ala.)
- "Tour de France" — A chocolate cake stick with hazelnut kreme glaze (Lindsay Piccotti, Clay, N.Y.)
Finalists were selected based on the following criteria: use of ingredients in donut combination, donut name and donut story.
Each finalist wins $1,200 and will travel to Dunkin' Donuts' University in Braintree, Mass., for a bake-off. Judges include Dunkin' Donuts' culinary team and company leaders along with Paul Mullins, author of Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut, and Diane Werner, food director for Taste of Home, the No. 1 cooking magazine in the country.
The winning donut will be selected based on the outcome of the bake-off and America's online public voting. The grand prize winner of the "Create Dunkin's Next Donut" contest will be unveiled on National Donut Day, June 5.
"We were absolutely amazed at the number of entries into our contest, and the incredible creativity and originality of all of the submissions," said Frances Allen, Dunkin' Donuts' Brand Marketing Officer. "We salute our dozen finalists and everyone who participated in the contest to celebrate the joy and fun of donuts."
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