We had a great time and Sarah is already cooking up more ideas in her head for the next Pillsbury contest and maybe even entering others!

Going back in time just a bit, on Monday afternoon, the Pillsbury film crew selected Sarah, along with 9 other finalists, to interview for a website “spotlight” about the whole bake off experience. They supplied make up, a film room and all and put her under the spotlight, literally! Later on that same night, Pillsbury announced the four category winners. I have a sampling of what went on below; it was quite the event!

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After cooking for 4 hours with 3 different batches, Sarah turned in her finished product to the judges. Now we just have to wait! During the course of the event, we were both interviewed by Alexandra Wentworth, who is the wife of George Stephanopoulos. Maybe we will see that interview at a later date!

Now, we can relax for a few hours in the pool of the resort before the awards ceremony tonight. The category winners will be immediately flown to Chicago via Pillsbury’s private jet to prepare for the Grand Prize announcement on the Oprah Winfrey show on Wednesday. Quite an exciting time!

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Sarah Fuchs started making her recipe as the 44th Bake-Off began this morning.

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The night before the competition, we gathered with the 99 other finalists and all the guests and enjoyed a gourmet meal.

We learned quite a bit about the process of how recipes are selected. Well over 10,000 recipes are submitted and now they are down to 100. First, they weed out obviously not original recipes, ones that don’t meet the requirements, etc. From those thousands left, they send them to the main Pillsbury selection panel to weed them down to what think will make easy to make, yet unique and good tasting items.  Then, all those remaining are cooked and taste tested by a panel at a rate of 4 dozen a day for weeks. Then from those hundreds cooked, they put the team to work looking though every known recipe book, online, etc to make sure they are original recipes. When cleared, the final 100 are chosen. Quite a process.

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We arrived in Orlando Florida last night and kicked off the first day of the Pillsbury Bake-Off contest.

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Sarah demonstrated her winning recipe on KSPR TV today…

The Bake-Off is this coming Monday in Orlando, Fl!

Also, you can hear today’s radio interview here…

Original Link
http://www.kspr.com/news/local/90294297.html

We are all very proud of Sarah as her entry into the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest was selected as one of a hundred finalists! She will travel to Orlando to make a case for her recipe as the winner next spring.

Coming up later this month, she will be featured on Channel 10 in Springfield on January 21, 2010 on the 6AM morning show. She will make the recipe on TV for everyone to enjoy!

Be sure to visit the official page and vote for her recipe!

Click Here to view official Pillsbury Page

Sarah started baking long ago as a young girl and always enjoys baking a good treat!