PHOTOGRAPHY BY KRISTA HUSA
T
alk about afternoon
delight! It was a milk-
and-cookie-lover's fantasy
when the Friends of
Camp Mak-A-Dream hosted its annu-
al Cookies 'N Dreams fund-raiser at
the Somerset Collection.
Friends of Camp Mak-A-Dream is
a non-profit organization that raises
funds for a special camp in Montana
where children and young adults with
cancer share camping experiences.
Donations from the Michigan chapter
are used to fund camperships for
Michigan patients. Barry Shapiro is
chairman of the Michigan chapter,
and Brian Granader is president.
Nathan and Catherine Forbes and
Kathy Broock Ballard chaired the
event.
The scene was carnival-like as
cookie-munching kids donned bal-
loon-sculpture hats and fancy face
paintings. Local food professionals
(bakeries, restaurants and caterers)
competed in cookie contests, judged
by the guests along with a celebrity
panel.
Judges took their jobs seriously,
sampling each choice, while tucking
extras into their goody bags for fur-
ther review.
Celebrity judges included Danny
Raskin from the Jewish News; Warren
Pierce, WJR; George Cantor, The
Detroit News; and Dell Warner, WDIV.
When the ballots were tallied, the
real cookie connoisseurs, those little
gourmands with the milk moustaches,
awarded the following prizes:
Best Chip - Rocky Mountain
Chocolate Factory, Somerset
Collection
Best Chocolate - Rocky Mountain
Chocolate Factory
Best Bar - Savoir Fare Catering,
Southfield
Best Decorated - Cookies by
Design, Rochester Hills, Southfield
and West Bloomfield
Most Unusual - Scher Delites,
Southfield (Jackie Scher crafted a
giant Somerset shopping bag out of
chocolate chip cookie dough. It was
decorated with department store
logos.)
And that's the way the cookies
crumbled.
— Linda Bachrack
1. Amanda Simmons, 3, of Bloomfield Hills, taste-tests a chocolate chip cookie. 2. Celebrity
judge
n Pierce samples cookies with his wife Jacquelyn and daughter Samantha.
3. 114
me Stein of Sylvan Lake licks chocolate-covered fingers.