If you like to cook or bake and wonder if that passion can possibly earn you some money, then the well known Pillsbury Bake-Off is for you. It is one of the oldest cooking competitions and is currently hosting it’s 44th annual competition. At first it began as a way to promote the Pillsbury name and to see whatitem you could bake using a Pillsbury food product. Now it has grown into an enormous competition that is known to beginner cooks to chefs all over the world. There are many great stories of those who have entered this old competition such as a Brevard County dessert distributor named Betty. She entered the contest along with other Brevard County dessert distributors that she worked with to come up with a winning pie recipe. After Betty entered her pie recipe that did not win, she continued to enter year after to year and enjoyed the environment of the baking competition.

The 44 year old Pillsbury Bake-Off competition has gotten so big that the winner of the Best Overall Recipe will take home over $1,000,000 in cash and prizes. If you are one of the lucky 100 finalists to be chosen to compete in the final competition, the competition will give you with the free trip to Orlando, Florida to do just that. cook with just a Pillsbury product but several other food labels and products arein it also. Things like Jif peanut butter, Egglands best eggs or Green Giant vegetables are just some of the products thatare required to be in your original recipe. As long as youinclude two or more of the items in your recipe, then you qualify to enter your recipe to the competition. There are four different categories that will be judged for the competition. The 1st is titled Breakfast and Brunches and the 2nd is titled Entertaining Appetizers. The next recipe category is called Dinner made Easy which is obviously a variety of dinner entrees. And thefinal category in the Pillsbury Bake-Off competition is the dessert category and has the largest number of entries is titled Sweet treats.

Last year’s winner’s recipe in the Bake-Off contest entered a recipe in the Appetizer category last year. She decided to use three of the required products to make Crescent Thumbprints. It was made by using crescent dough and putting them into a small muffin pan and filling it with gorgonzola cheese, chopped pecans, onion, apricot preserves, cream cheese and thyme. After baking these, the judges felt that this was an award winning recipe that should win for the appetizer category. Not only does the winner get a trip to compete in the final competition, but they win over a million dollars in prizes and also has their recipe published also. These are all things that continue tocreate thebiggest number of entries in any other cooking competition in the world. It is also the longest running one having had its first one in 1949.