 Carolyn Gurtz of Gaithersburg, MD, took the million-dollar Grand Prize in the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest for her Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies.
Inspired by her love of baking and the great flavor of peanut butter, the recipe combines Pillsbury® Create ‘n Bake® Refrigerated peanut butter cookies with JIF® Creamy Peanut Butter and Fisher® Dry Roasted Peanuts to create as one judge stated, “A new twist on an old classic.”
A homemaker with a passion for baking inspired by her parents, Gurtz still has the mixer her mother bought her more than twenty years ago. Now 59, she fondly recalls the day her parents first introduced her to cooking at age seven. Fulfilling a lifelong dream to reach the Bake-Off® Contest, she literally cried from joy upon learning she’d been selected as one of the 100 finalists. “This is like winning the gold medal,” said Gurtz, who has been entering recipes in the Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest for the past 15 years. This Sunday School teacher and mother of two knew she was on to something when her son smelled them cooking and declared them a “winner” after just one bite. |