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Anybody for Chocolate Chirp Cookies?
If you're whipping up a cookie recipe for an entomology social, it's a good idea to use cricket...
Account manager Guyla Yoak (far left) coordinated the cookie contest. With her (from left) are the winners: Elvia Mayes, account manager; Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology; Heather Baker, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Shirley Luckhart lab; Stacey Rice, junior specialist of the Larry Godfrey lab; and Mimi Portilla, graduate student/mosquito researcher of the Sharon Lawler lab.
These Chocolate Chirp Cookies, the work of graduate student Heather Baker, won first in the innovative category.
"Merrie Minnies," entered by account manager Elvia Mayes, won the "Best Decorated" category.
Two winners! "Citrus Cranberry Walnut Cookies" (left), made by department chair Steve Nadler won "Best Taste Without Chocolate" while "Chocolate Bug Bites," made by junior entomology specialist Stacey Rice, won "Best Taste with Chocolate."
These White Poinsetta Almond Cookies, the work of cookie contest coordinator Guyla Yoak, drew oohs and aahs from the crowd. As the coordinator, she removed herself from the winners' circle. (Yoak earlier won third place in a Staff Assembly cookie contest with these decorative cookies.)