Impatiently sitting on her mom's lap in a chocolate-filled room, 9-year-old Brittany Wilson had her eyes on one item: a triple-layer chocolate cake dripping with chocolate icing.
"I'm just ready to get that chocolate," Brittany said as she licked her lips. "I can't wait to start tasting."
However, Brittany wasn't limited to one chocolate cake.
She could choose from 65 chocolate dishes at the second annual "All Things Chocolate" bake-off sponsored by Indiana Public Radio and Minnetrista Cultural Center on Sunday.
Taste-testers paid $5 for 10 tickets, one ticket equaled one taste, at the Minnetrista Cultural Center.
Carol Trimmer, outreach coordinator for IPR, said the event wasn't about raising money.
"It's a fun thing for mothers and daughters to do together," she said. "People like to share their best cookies and cakes with others."
Dianne Hines said her granddaughter Rachel, 8, has been cooking since she was 3 years old.
"She's just one of those kids," Hines said. "When she was little you couldn't get her out of the kitchen."
Rachel won three blue ribbon prizes for her bonbon cookies, blackout cake and French cream pie.
Marcy Meyer, associate professor of communication studies, said her "Boy Bait Brownies" help her communicate with her 14-year-old son, Gavin.
"It's difficult to be a single mom and have a conversation with my son," Meyer said. "When he smells the brownies after coming home from school, he's more receptive to talking because he's relaxed."
This is Meyer's first year in the bake-off. She said her friends talked her into entering her brownies in the chocolate bake-off.
"My friends always say that my brownies are better sex," Meyer said. "I thought I would give the contest a shot this year."
The bake-off was divided into three divisions: professional, amateur and youth (age 18 and under). Each division had six categories: brownies, cakes, candies, cookies, pies/tarts/tortes and other.
The judges rated the chocolate dishes on presentation, texture and taste, judge Samantha Rutledge said.
Although Rutledge said she enjoyed judging her first bake-off, she said she was glad when it was over.
"I couldn't handle anymore chocolate," Rutledge, Ball State junior, said. "I was getting a little nauseous in the end."
Trimmer said the radio station will likely sponsor the chocolate bake-off again next year.
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