Blue ribbon desserts first place

Best 9 Layer Cookies Bar Recipe Ultimate 9-Layer Cookie Bars, made with a 9 layer center blend of nuts, various chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and coconut. The 9 layers are on top of a yummy graham cracker crust. *Please note that the crust and garnish are extra layers. **This is for the recipe only. Your recipe will be downloadable as a pdf.** How to access your digital files: Upper right-hand corner ----> Purchases and reviews and look for the order To the…

We have lovely neighbors. The kind of folks who are good to our children, keep an eye on our home while we are away, and even shovel our driveway in the winter. We live on a street that is brimming with outstanding people. I know we are beyond blessed to live in such a wonderfully friendly and "old-fashioned" neighborhood; the kind of neighborhood where everyone waves hello and still stops to chat when they can...it's a simple pleasure that makes home --extra special. At the beginning of…

(This post is from 2017-the contest and event have ended) Hello friends!! It's almost that time of year... fall.... and maybe even better... It's time for the Ohio Country Living Fair!! Have you ever been?? It is A-mazing!! This year: September 15-17 at the Ohio Village in Columbus, Ohio One of my very favorite fall days... it's really the best shopping, the best food and best craft demos and the best day-out with friends.... It's really the best!! What could make this great event even…

The moment my friend busted out this dish at the party, I was all like, "I need to make this ASAP," and man, it was so worth it

The chocolate malt cake is a delicious "time machine" at the Kentucky State Fair.

Remember the unsinkable Molly Brown from the Titanic?? Please let me introduce you to the "unbeatable" --unsinkable apple pie. This pie has a perfect winning record (so far... ) This apple pie has never lost a competition, not once. Every time it is entered, it wins... first place, no less. I don't have too many recipes that can make that claim. Perhaps I may be jinxing the recipe...by discussing it's rare 1st place record... ...like a giant iceberg... ...but I think the proof is in the…

We almost didn't make it to the Apple Festival over the weekend... I was busy doing a little bit of everything, except getting my apple dumplings made for the bake-off. As it turned out... we did go to the Apple Festival, it was loads of fun and the apple dumplings won first place! Below is THE winning recipe... AND a mini photo tutorial to walk you through the basic steps. A printable recipe is here: APPLE DUMPLING PRINTABLE RECIPE If the apple dumplings look like too much trouble, I can…

First Place Old Fashioned Sugar Cream Pie Karri Perry|2022-makes one 9 inch pie. 1 prepared pie crust chilled (For dough: 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 Tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons salt 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter 1 Tbs butter flavored Crisco 1/4 cup ice water) For the crust: mix together the flour, salt and sugar. Cut in the butter and Crisco until a crumbly appearance forms. Then drizzle the water in, until dough comes together—depending on humidity-you may need a little less water or a…

BEST Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies ~ Chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with browned butter, chocolate chips, and pecans. ~…

This blueberry lemon quick bread recipe is one of 98 first-place winners in this year's culinary competitions at State Fair.