CULINARY CHALLENGES

Everyone loves food so why not make your next team building event a cooking challenge?  We have a wide variety of fun food events to bring out the gourmet in everyone.

Bada Bing!

A saucy event with good taste!  Your group will become Italian families from all over Italy, the pasta capital of the world!  Each family will be cooking their secret family recipe for pasta sauce and serving it in their restaurants for our food critics.

Learn about your teammates’ tastes and talents in this culinary test of teamwork as you create a culinary masterpiece that will have everyone savoring the flavor.

Chopped Challenge!

A basket containing who knows what put teams’ creativity to the test. Contestants have 45 minutes to turn ingredients found in the mystery basket into one edible dish. Judges rank team dishes on how well the ingredients were incorporated, creativity, taste and presentation.

The winning team gets a culinary-inspired grand prize and the rest get Chopped!

Ha Cha Cha Chili Challenge

Learn about your teammates’ tastes and talents in this culinary test of teamwork.  Imagine your group planning and preparing mouthwatering chili from scratch.  Your group is divided into teams who will create their secret recipe, choose their ingredients and cook their Ha Cha Cha Chili. Savor the flavor in this spicy event.

Ice Cream Ball

Your group will chill out with during this sweet event and prepare tempting frozen treats at your very own Ice Cream Ball!  Your group is divided into teams that will create their secret recipe, choose their ingredients and have fun as they shake, roll and pass around our special “Ice Cream Ball” as it is freezing the ingredients together.

This is an excellent way to incorporate team building with a creative, fun and upbeat exercise as teams are working together to achieve a common goal while having fun.

Iron Chef

Teams must make the most of their culinary and creative knowledge, stretching their limited resources to the max.  Teams can also gain much needed ingredients and equipment by winning it in competitive challenges. Teams must adapt, improvise and harness all of their creative thinking to finish their tasks in the time allotted, capture the judge’s taste buds and win the title of Iron Chef Champions!

Salsa Showdown

Spice it up with a Salsa Showdown!  Prepare your secret salsa recipe from scratch during a southwest reception.  Your group is divided into teams that will attempt to create an award winning salsa from scratch.  Develop the recipe, choose the ingredients and off they go.

This is an excellent way to incorporate team building with a creative, fun and upbeat exercise as teams are working together to achieve a common goal while having fun.

Sweet Smell of Success

In our Sweet Smell of Success team building event your group will achieve pastry perfection!  Teams will work together to develop their advertising strategy, packaging and also write a recipe for company success.

Groups are shown to their decorating stations and given a team packet outlining their objectives.  Each culinary team will have a selection of cookies (cupcakes or cakes can also be used) to decorate and market to the judges.  All teams will be given the exact same ingredients and supplies to work with.  Chefs will also be given extra dough (money) to spend at the Baker’s Store where they can purchase other ingredients to set their creations apart from the competition.  Judges will be looking for the most creative marketing tactics as well as the look and taste of the final creation.  Even better, everyone gets to go home with the sweet treats created by the group.