His Chocolate Frosted Triple Chocolate Brownies with Dried Cherries won first place in the brownies category. His recipes for Vermont Apple Bread, Decadent Double Chocolate Banana Bread and Old-Fashioned Scottish Orange Current Scones took first place in the quick breads category. Finally, Guzzardi’s California Fruit Cake took first place in the cakes, non-layer category.
The story in the Lodi News-Sentinel, where his column also appears is here.
In addition, the Lodi Living section of the News-Sentinel published a special feature on cupcakes that included Guzzardi’s childhood memories regarding those treats here.
Also available: Joe's recipe for White Mountain Chocolate Cupcakes, which won an award at the 2005 California State Fair.