Comments on: Mix It Up With Betty Finalists http://www.cookiemadness.net/2009/04/mix-it-up-with-betty-finalists/ A Batch of Cookies Almost Every Day Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: NJ http://www.cookiemadness.net/2009/04/mix-it-up-with-betty-finalists/comment-page-1/#comment-24725 NJ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:51:12 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=2992#comment-24725 Nevermind! I found it... off to try oatmeal-cran-sour cream bars. :) Nevermind! I found it… off to try oatmeal-cran-sour cream bars. :)

]]> By: NJ http://www.cookiemadness.net/2009/04/mix-it-up-with-betty-finalists/comment-page-1/#comment-24724 NJ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:47:05 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=2992#comment-24724 Who is everyone going to vote for? I am leaning toward biscotti just because I think using a cookie mix in biscotti would be hard to do successfully (but I may be wrong). Anna, you may have told us already and I missed it but what were your two recipes that won in the past? Thanks! Who is everyone going to vote for? I am leaning toward biscotti just because I think using a cookie mix in biscotti would be hard to do successfully (but I may be wrong).

Anna, you may have told us already and I missed it but what were your two recipes that won in the past?

Thanks!

]]> By: Anna http://www.cookiemadness.net/2009/04/mix-it-up-with-betty-finalists/comment-page-1/#comment-24711 Anna Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:42:48 +0000 http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=2992#comment-24711 Louise, I agree with you. It's interesting how some of the finalists' recipes are as time consuming as scratch and more expensive. But I guess a lot of people who don't bake as a hobby wouldn't automatically know how to create a chocolate base for a drop cookie or a shortbread crust for a bar cookie. The mixes come in handy for people who are imaginative, but may not know the exact proportions for a scratch base. And in the past, there have been recipes that use the cookie mix as a base, but the toppings are so delicious you either 1) can't taste the cookie mix or 2) don't care. Carol, I know what you mean about wasting money and time with mixes. I've done that too. After a while, you get so use to scratch that nothing with a mix tastes right. That's why it's even trickier to take a mix and make it taste as good as scratch or doctor it up enough to make it so good no one minds. Just keep trying. Contests like these are a combination of luck and skill. If it were all luck, different people would win all the time. The fact that certain people make the finals over and over show that there's some skill...and if skill is involved, then you can pick that up! Like any skill, it just takes enthusiasm, study and practice. Louise, I agree with you. It’s interesting how some of the finalists’ recipes are as time consuming as scratch and more expensive. But I guess a lot of people who don’t bake as a hobby wouldn’t automatically know how to create a chocolate base for a drop cookie or a shortbread crust for a bar cookie. The mixes come in handy for people who are imaginative, but may not know the exact proportions for a scratch base. And in the past, there have been recipes that use the cookie mix as a base, but the toppings are so delicious you either 1) can’t taste the cookie mix or 2) don’t care.

Carol, I know what you mean about wasting money and time with mixes. I’ve done that too. After a while, you get so use to scratch that nothing with a mix tastes right. That’s why it’s even trickier to take a mix and make it taste as good as scratch or doctor it up enough to make it so good no one minds.

Just keep trying. Contests like these are a combination of luck and skill. If it were all luck, different people would win all the time. The fact that certain people make the finals over and over show that there’s some skill…and if skill is involved, then you can pick that up! Like any skill, it just takes enthusiasm, study and practice.

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