Cinnamon Roll-like Cookie Wins St. Paul, Minn., Baker $5,000.MINNEAPOLIS -- A cookie based on a childhood baking project with her grandmother earned a St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , Minn., woman first prize in a Betty Crocker Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. [R] "Bake Life Sweeter[TM]" recipe contest. Lynette Spence used a sugar cookie Noun 1. sugar cookie - cookies sprinkled with granulated sugar cookie, cooky, biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) mix to create a cinnamon roll-like cookie and won a $5,000 cash prize. Spence says "Cinna-spin" Cookies is a fun recipe she, her mother and her daughter make together in a lot less time than the cinnamon rolls she and her grandmother made when she was a young girl. The Betty Crocker "Bake Life Sweeter[TM]" third annual contest also awarded $1,000 to Rita Moghadam of Westchester, Ohio, as winner of the Online Voting portion of the contest for her Chocolate-Peanut Butter Dream Bars. The other 13 winners each received $500 cash prizes. Among the prize winning recipes were six cookies, six bars, two mini desserts and one family-sized dessert. The 15 winning and five honorable mention recipes can be found at BakeLifeSweeter.com/cookies. Spence used a pouch of Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix as the base for her recipe, rolled tablespoons of the dough into five-inch ropes, pressed each rope into ground cinnamon and coiled each into a cinnamon roll shape for baking. She drizzled a powdered sugar glaze over glaze over Verb to become dull through boredom or inattention: the listener's eyes glaze over Verb 1. her cooled cookies. Double chocolate chunk cookie mix was the base for the Online Winner's three-layer bar cookies. Moghadam's combination of chocolate and peanut butter are, in her words, "a winning combination in any crowd." She spread a cream cheese and whipped topping Whipped topping is a non dairy product made to resemble the taste, texture, and look of whipped cream. Whipped Topping normally contains some mixture of partially hydrogenated oil, sweeteners, and other ingredients. combination over a baked cookie base, topping the bars with a mixture of melted chocolate and peanut butter and a sprinkle of dry-roasted peanuts. Consumers voted online between March 25 and April 16 for the recipe they thought best met judging criteria of taste and creativity. The 15 winners also each received 1,000 bonus box tops The Box Tops were a Memphis pop music group of the late 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter," "Soul Deep" and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. awarded directly to their designated school registered in the Box Tops for Education[R] program. Contest entrants were asked to use one of the nine Betty Crocker Cookie Mix flavors and develop their own recipes using additional ingredients, decorations and serving ideas. Entrants had to be 18 years of age or older and a legal resident of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. during the competition. Betty Crocker Cookie Mix is available for home bakers who like great tasting cookies and yet want the convenience of a mix. Depending upon cookie flavor, butter or vegetable oil and an egg are required to make the cookie dough Cookie dough refers to a blend of cookie ingredients which has been mixed into a solid yet malleable form but has not yet been hardened by heat. The dough is often then separated and the portions baked to individual cookies, or eaten as is. . Home bakers shape the dough into their desired cookie size and bake. These easy-to-make cookies are ready to eat in only 20 minutes and make approximately three dozen two-inch cookies. Recipes for cookie and bar variations can be found on the packaging or at BakeLifeSweeter.com. A pouch retails for approximately $2.19. |
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