KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Kelseyville Pear Festival’s annual pear dessert contest brought in a record number of participants this year, vying for top honors using their most delicious recipes.

Contest Chair Janice Stokes said 37 contestants took part year, a record for the event. The contest  sponsor this year was Lake Parts.

Judges Madelene Lyon, Marcie Cadora and Chris Mansell had the delicious task of choosing the contest winners.

Martha Rose, who runs a Lakeport preschool, still manages to find time to create some tasty treats, and she entered three of her very special pear desserts.

Rose took first place and won a $200 gift certificate for the Saw Shop Gallery Bistro for her “Autumn Pear Cheesecake” and also won third place and a $100 gift certificate for Studebaker’s Coffee House for her “Old Fashioned Pear Dessert.”

Sasha Reynolds took place for her “Kelseyville Pear Strudel 2012,” winning a $150 gift certificate for Lyndall’s Sports Spot Grill.

Fourth place went to Heather Malley’s spiced pear cheesecake,” with Malley receiving a $50 gift certificate for LuLu’s Ice Cream.

Bonnie Riley took fifth place and received a $25 gift certificate for Studebaker’s Coffee House for her ginger pear cup cakes with lime cream cheese frosting.

The Kelseyville Pear Festival Committee thanked all of the 2012 contestants for participating.