For football fans, nothing pairs better with game day than delicious, compliment-worthy recipes to share with fellow fans, family members and friends (and perhaps the occasional team rival). With this in mind, Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry has announced the Great Game Day Recipe Contest.

Home cooks and hosts are invited to share their crowd-pleasing, compliment-worthy game day recipes for a chance to score big and win a trip for two to New York City for a private cooking class with Gail Simmons, judge of Bravo’s Emmy-winning show Top Chef, host of the network’s spin-off hit Top Chef: Just Desserts and long-time Puff Pastry fan.

To enter the Great Game Day Recipe Contest, consumers should create their original recipe using Puff Pastry Sheets or Shells and upload a recipe photograph along with a brief description to the Puff Pastry Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/PuffPastry). All submissions will be judged on the following criteria: originality, taste appeal, appearance and appropriateness to the contest theme. One lucky winner whose Puff Pastry recipe outplays the competition will receive Gail’s ultimate compliment—a personal cooking experience with the food critic, trained chef, and Food & Wine magazine contributor. Puff Pastry fans are encouraged to visit www.PuffPastry.com to find inspiration in the Game Day Collection, which contains many simple yet undeniably impressive recipes, like Meatball Mini Bites, Touchdown Twists, Loaded Potato Chip Spirals, Jalapeño Poppers in a Blanket and Gail’s exclusive Spinach and Feta Mini-Calzones.

Gail considers Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry an essential ingredient when she entertains at home and said, “I can’t wait to see all the satisfying and mouth-watering recipes people will create with Puff Pastry. I just might impress my own guests with some of the recipes shared on Facebook the next time friends gather at my house for some game day fun!”

By visiting www.PuffPastry.com, consumers can also gain access to Gail’s complete Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry recipe collection, which includes other show-stopping recipes like Thai Shrimp Spirals, Red Raspberry & White Chocolate Cream Hand Pies, PB&J Doughnuts and Smoked Salmon Blini Puffs, plus more than 350 other Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry appetizer, entrée and dessert recipes that make elegant entertaining easy, new how-to videos, special offers and more.

Puff Pastry beginners and enthusiasts are encouraged to follow Gail Simmons (http://twitter.com/gailsimmons) and Pepperidge Farm (http://twitter.com/PepperidgeFarm and http://twitter.com/PFPuffPastry) on Twitter for additional Puff Pastry tips and recipes.

Source: Business Wire

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