The Best Alternative Guac category invites you to come up with interesting new ingredients to put in guac (past entries included pineapple, feta, fish, wasabi, cactus, caviar, chocolate, goat cheese, etc.), or present guac in some new form (fried, cookies, soup, ice cream, cannolis, various alcohols, etc.)
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- Chilled Guacpacho Soup… notice the same frame that they used the year before.
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- Guactoberfest. A beer-infused guac, with sausages to dip. Not that tasty, but it’s a guac that gets you drunk! Not bad!
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- Pineapple Upside-Down Guac. With real chunks of pineapple in the guac, for a tropical sensation.
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- Turning Guacanese, one of our two Japanese-themed guacs in 2007. With wasabi-flavored guac, ginger, and crispy edamame things.
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- Domo AriGuaco, Mr. Roboto. Our second Japanese-themed entry.
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- A small controversy broke out over which Japanese-themed guac had the better amount of wasabi in it.
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- Guacing On Broken Bass. With pieces of bass fish inside. A strong pun, a stronger odor.
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- Guacamole Chip Ice Cream. Winner the Best Alternative Guac 2007.
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- It was actually good, mostly because it was filled with sugar and cream, and very little avocado.
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- Goat cheese-infused giuac, with a confuse-amole name.
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- A Guacwork Orange, with blood-oranges inside! Pretty tasty.
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- An interesting gourd as a bowl, and mangos inside.
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- “Guaclate,” a very very chocolately guac.
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- “Guac Balls,” bacon-wrapped, beer-battered balls of awesome.
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- “Guac Corn”, Winner of the 2012 Best Alternative Guac. Somehow, popcorn was turned into guac.
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- “Lox-amole” a bagels-and-lox guac. Oy!
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- Guac sushi rolls (to continue the Japanese theme… though this was a few years later.)
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- Another alcohol-filled guac, this one with tequila. Getting voters drunk is a good strategy.
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- Fried Guacamole Raviolé, winner of Best Alternative Guac 2008.
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- Guackies, one of our two guacamole cookie entries in 2008. Beautiful!
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- Strawcamole, a fruity concoction with a moon landing theme.
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- Guactinis, with two kinds of vodka in ‘em. The best reason I’ve seen to become an alcoholic.
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- Monkey on Your Guac, a banana-infused guac with plantain chips.
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- Guactose Intolerant, for those allergic to avocado. Made with bean dip and sour cream, mostly.
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- I tried visiting anticados.com. It’s not real.
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- Our second guac cookie entry, Sugar Guackies.
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- …which included had these bacon-wrapped avocado slices on the side.
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- “I Don’t Like Guacamole… Guacamole.” There’s always at least one protest entry ever year, and one was delicious.
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- “*Now With Bacon,” a bacon guac.
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- Avocado Pudding Pie, Waynee’s big comeback after trying a less-successful sweet guac (cookies) in 2008.
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- The “caviar” itself was actually tomatoes and serrano chili turned into little dots using molecular gastronomy.
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- Southwestern Caviar Service, an intricate guac with many parts: blini, mousse, and caviar.
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- These cinnamon chips were “like candy,” as Mike put it.
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- Guacastoli, a vodka infused with all the ingredients of guac.
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- It was tasty, and got us that much closer to getting drunk and voting for it!
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- Guappie Pies, a salute to Whoopie Pies.
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- One of two Slumdog entries in 2009, this one made with Masala curry.
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- Avocado Pie, with Frito crust. Delicious!
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- Fried Guac with Habanero Aioli, 2009 winner of Best Tasting Guac, Alternative Category.
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- Gnocchi-Mole, a delicious hot entry.
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- With two types of gnocchi — one creamy and the other with more guac-y ingredients.
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- Guac Krispie treats! Just like mom used to make, but with guac.
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- “Holy Guac-Cannoli!”, filled with a creamy, sweet guac. These must have been a lot of work to make.
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- A guac daiquiri… let’s hope it gets you drunk.
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- “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Guacer,” which tested the idea that everything is better with extra butter.
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- “Twin Guacs,” donuts with a guacamole glaze. That just looked like donuts. Stealthy.
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- A guac-infused beer called “7% GBV” (Guac By Volume), winner of the 2011 Best Alternative Guac.
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- “Irish Shamguac,” using corned beef as the alternative ingredient.
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- “Guammus,” an unholy combination of guac and hummus.
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- “A Guac By Any Other Name…” was made with rose pedals in it. Flowerriffic.
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- The special ingredient of this one was… POISON!!! That’s it, there’s nothing left to try. We’ve done it all.
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- I think this one had papayas in it. But I might be wrong.
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- Senorita Traditionale’s Guacamole Clasico, with Original Recipe and XTREME MEGA CRUNCH!
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- Xtreme Mega Crunch, with rice crispies in the guac. Its motto: “Shove it down your throat hole!”
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- Guac-a-mole and Cheese. But with pasta shells instead of macaroni for some reason.
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- Orange guac. Nice use of orange peels as bowls.
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- Guac of the Loom. Not the best pun in the world, but a really tasty guac with lots of fruits.
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- Cactus Guac, with real cactus meat inside! I think.
