Cookie Contest
My company is having a holiday cookie contest and I want to enter. It's my first contest, though. Anyone have any tips? Any cookie recipes that are really fantastic?
There are five categories: best tasting, best looking, best bars, most original and best intentioned. I don't think I should go for best looking, because I'm not an aesthetic perfectionist. Todd's been pressing me to make Nanaimo Bars, which are layered bar cookies with a cookie layer, custard layer and a layer of chocolate on top. I'm thinking something simpler, though. Maybe a Mexican wedding cookie. This weekend I'm hoping to make lemon-rosemary bundt cakes and truffles. It's snowing buckets right now, so it'll be a good weekend for indoor activities.
Don't forget to send me your award-winning cookie recipes, though. I can tell I'm going to make myself crazy trying to figure out what to enter.
Comments
Oooh a contest! Exciting! I would enter it too, if only there was one - there's just 9 of us in the company, and I'm guessing there may be about two of us who ever made a cookie at all! Do you have to choose the category you want to shoot for, or do you just enter and they can select you for any category?
I'm not sure what to recommend, the vanilla pecan squares I made recently (to be found on my blog) were good and original, but I don't know if they're contest-winning material!
In any case, good luck!
Posted by: clotilde | December 7, 2003 06:55 PM
I'm pretty sure you just enter your cookies and the judges choose the category winners from all the entries. (Except for the bar cookies category, which makes me think bar cookies may be the way to go: That way you have a shot at all five categories.) There are lots of fantastic bakers with classic family recipes on staff, so I'm not getting my hopes up.
I'll check out your recipe. A nut-based cookie sounds like a good idea.
Posted by: Kim | December 7, 2003 10:19 PM