Superbowl Snack Throwdown – Week 13
Can you believe how fast this month is going by? It’s the 13th already! Luckily, Hubby and I do most of our Christmas shopping online. This year I’m making some of the gifts and the rest has been ordered. Hopefully it all makes it by Christmas!
Since it’s Sunday, it’s time to review Highlowaha’s Super Bowl Snack Throwdown recipes from Kate and Lauren. This week’s secret ingredient is pineapple! As a reminder, recipes are to be judged on the following criterion: Creative use of the ingredient, most likely to be eaten first, best photograph, and reproducibility. So now, on to the recipes (be sure to click through to check out the entire recipes).
Kate made Upshot Brownies.
Lauren made Mini Aloha Calzones.
I’m going to start with the photograph this week. This week was a tough one because both of these photos look good! Kate wins this category this week because her food is more colorful.
When it comes to reproducibility, both of these recipes can be made using shortcuts. For Kate’s, you could make from scratch brownies, or from a box. For Lauren’s, you could make your own pizza dough or buy it. For this reason, I claim this category as a tie.
When it comes to creative use of ingredient, when I think pineapple, I instantly think dessert. But I think those little calzones are a very creative spin on pineapple. I have personally never had Hawaiian pizza, but like Lauren mentioned, every time I’ve seen it, it has tomato sauce on it. I don’t feel like ham and pineapple go with tomato, so I really like that Lauren customized her calzones to reflect her preferences.
When it comes to most likely to be eaten first, I have to give it to Lauren. In my experience desserts are not the first to go at football gatherings. This, of course, makes me a bit sad since I usually bring a dessert. You really can’t go wrong with a mini-calzone that you can pop straight into your mouth!
Congratulations Lauren! I can’t wait to see what you and Kate come up with next week!!
I’ve placed my vote, now it’s time for you to cast yours! Be sure to go to Highlowaha to vote for your favorite of these two recipes.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Thank you so much for your kind words and constructive criticism. I just started reading your reviews this past week because I wasn’t aware you were doing such an elaborate write up about them. I didn’t realize photography was important in your decision! My hubby brought our super awesome camera home from work and helped me get some pictures this week, and obviously it paid off. My photography skills don’t go much past trying to catch my toddlers doing something funny before they STOP doing it. Thanks for your vote this week and I look forward to your upcoming reviews!!!!
Have fun in the midwest! I’m leaving for Ohio on Tuesday…gotta love home:)
Yep Kate, photography is supposed to be one of the four categories I use to judge!!
Both of these recipes looked amazing, but I agree with the selection. The pumpkin footballs were my pick, too. I love pumpkin, and these little footballs look really tasty.
Good job, Kate.
what great treats for football season! I think both looked great.