Cooking Finished
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!
The Pillsbury Bake-Off Begins!
Sarah Fuchs started making her recipe as the 44th Bake-Off began this morning.
Pillsbury Bake Off Dinner
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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First Day at the Bake Off
We arrived in Orlando Florida last night and kicked off the first day of the Pillsbury Bake-Off contest.
Bake Off Demonstration on TV!
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