Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
Nah, you're not going to enter. You would be considered a "food professional," and we aren't allowed anywhere near an entry form.
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Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
A recipe, according to Webster's, is a set of instructions for making something from various ingredients. That makes this and other recipes calling for the use of convenience food ingredients "real." The contest is clearly designed to generate recipes using specific brand-name products. If that's not your thing, look elsewhere for your recipes.
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
At first I was excited to see a peanut butter cookie recipe that was worth a million dollars until I saw that it was made with a premade cookie dough! I have never used a premade store bought cookie dough & never will! Every cookie from scratch is my idea of a million dollar cookie, not some premade shortcuts. No thanks, I wouldn't even try this recipe. Maybe they need a crock of butter to go along with this recipe.
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
oh geez, I was expecting a real recipe. =(
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
According to the article about her in yesterday's Washington Post, this lady has entered the contest every year for the last 15 years. She came up with this recipe because it uses five of the sponsors' products. Her husband is a financial planner, so I'm sure they will figure out what to do with the money.
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
@ptrap - congratulations on making it to the finals! I used to enter the State Fair of Texas contests before moving to Arizona and there were a couple SFT ladies in the finals, too. One, Gwen Beauchamp, won the fan's favorite recipe (or whatever it was called).
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
I think the recipe was a good choice. Have had to explain waffe-stick stuffing for the past two years, I am glad Carolyn just has a cookie to deal with. It's pretty straightforward and I think it's one that normal people will make when they need to provide cookies for a group.
Having said that, I've seen many versions of that recipe. Some with chocolate coating, some made with peanut butter cookie mix. I think the cleverness of combining a snickerdoodle with a filled peanut butter cookie is what the judges liked. She took an old favorite and put it in a convenient, easy to replicate recipe.
My only problem is the recipe didn't specify salted or unsalted peanuts. I made them with salt and the sweet/salty makes your forget about the refrigerated dough. I can imagine the cookies might be a little flat without the salt. But that's just my opinion. I like salt.
I also think there should have been a higher ratio of peanut butter to sugar....like 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1/3 cup powdered sugar.
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
I just came back from the bake-off as a contestant. And I read lots of blogs where people complain that its just using pre-made or pre-packaged stuff. Yes, I cringed a little when Sandra Lee told us all that we were all "semi-homemade chefs". But that's kind of the point of the contest. To enter, you are given two lists of assorted Pillsbury and other sponsor related products. Your recipe has to include at least one item from each list. That really limits what you can make. And that's why you see some really weird combos pop up in this contest. For me, it was just the fun of entering and the very remote chance of winning $1 million; I wasn't trying to create the next great American recipe. I will enter again next year; it was fun!
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
I can't believe it. THAT ONE WON? Last year I entered, and I know my recipe is a winner. I'm going to try again. Who doesn't want to win a million dollars? I truly believe I was out of the first round because of a) I've never entered a pie baking contest, b) my urban demographics.
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
a million dollars for that. AWE come on now.
Pillsbury Bake-Off Million-Dollar Winner: Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies
No wonder so many Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbooks can be found on thriftshop book shelves. Who'd want one?
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