Pillsbury Bakeoff

[Vinca]

Have any of you ever sent in recipes? I have in the past, but never gotten anywhere. It seems the desserts always win, so today I experimented with refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough, peanut butter and chocolate chips. The idea was to make a chocolate chip ravioli with peanut butter filling drizzled with chocolate. It crashed and burned. Yuck! The cookie dough is way too sweet and you have to use Jif peanut butter that tastes like it was made sometime during the last century. I never even got to the chocolate drizzle part. Time to go back to the drawing board and opt for using basic flour, butter and eggs in something.
http://www.pillsbury.com/BakeOff/Default.aspx

[AwakeAtLast]

1. My great-grandmother was a finalist

A looonngg time ago. Way before my father or I were ever thought of. One of her brothers was supposed to drive here there, but the weather prevented them from making the trip. I have that recipe, BTW.

Good luck! :hi:

[troubleinwinter]

2. A finalist!!! Wontcha tell us about the recipe?

Wondering what sort of dish would have been submitted at the time. I hadn't known the contest had been going on that long.

[AwakeAtLast]

3. Cinnamon Nut Squares

It was a dessert. I will have to dig out the recipe - it's in a family cookbook.

[troubleinwinter]

4. Oh-oh. That sure sounds good!!!!!!!

[Vinca]

5. That sounds good! Maybe you should tweak the recipe and

submit it in your great grandmother's memory. Our grandmothers must have been polar opposites. Mine bought premade pie crust in sticks the size of butter and was probably the first human being to purchase "Shake 'n Bake." She made a heck of a pot of baked beans though.