FAQs

Yes. You may have up to five recipes in your “saved recipe” box at any time. If you try to enter a sixth, you will not be able to do so until one of your saved recipes is submitted or deleted.

Yes.  Recipe entries can be submitted in Spanish.  Spanish-speaking food professionals will review all recipes submitted in Spanish and will translate recipes, if needed, for kitchen testing and other steps of the Bake-Off® Contest judging process.

The official rules state that each entry should be submitted only once, but there are no restrictions on the total number of recipe entries you can submit for this contest.

Once your recipe is submitted, that entry can no longer be changed. Submit a new entry with the correct version of your recipe, including a statement on your new recipe explaining that it is a corrected version of a recipe submitted earlier.

Enter your recipe in the category you think it fits best. The contest officials will re-assign recipes if they fit the requirements of a different category better.

There are no specific time limits for Categories, but recipes in the contest should generally have quick and easy preparation. At the Contest Finals, all finalists will be asked to prepare their recipes at least twice within the four hours of the competition.

You should indicate suggested amounts in your recipe. This will allow the test kitchen staff to evaluate the recipe as you intended.

Eligible products are selected for each Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest, based on consumer trends and marketing plans, so some products that were eligible in the last contest are not included and new ones are added. We hope you'll be able to find two other eligible products on the list to use in creating a recipe to enter.

We suggest that you ask your grocery store manager if the store can order the product, or select another eligible product available in your area.

Most eligible products are readily available in grocery stores, and many will have an assortment of varieties or flavors. We suggest that you check your favorite grocery stores and select from the choices you find available in your area. On the online entry form, a drop-down list of sizes and flavors of eligible products is available.

Yes, your recipe must include all the parts of an eligible product. Refer to the eligible product list for amounts.

Only the exact products listed are eligible, not variations. For example, McCormick® Sesame Seed is eligible, but McCormick® Black or Toasted Sesame Seeds are not eligible products.

Our interpretation of the food professional rule generally means that if someone is paid for work related to their original recipes, then they would not be eligible. “Food professional” may also be defined by a career, for example: chefs, food writers, food home economists, food educators, paid food bloggers or someone who creates recipes for pay would not be eligible. You are not eligible if you graduated from a culinary school/program or are enrolled in a culinary school/program as of January 6, 2011.

No. Because our contest rules are based on one individual person entering and participating, partners cannot enter recipes together.

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All entries in the contest that meet the entry requirements, such as using two different eligible products, are read and judged by food professionals from the official judging agency. From the many entries, the best are selected for kitchen testing and evaluation by
taste panels.  See description of the judging process here.

All recipes are evaluated using the same criteria. Judges will select which recipes will compete online.

No. The contest rules state that each finalist is eligible to win one prize in addition to the finalist package.

The judges at the Contest Finals will first select the top recipe in each of the four Recipe Categories. The Grand Prize Winner will be chosen from those four Category Winners. Recipes will then be considered by the judges for the special awards, provided that they meet the award requirements.

Plans for the grand prize winner announcement have not been finalized.  Please visit www.bakeoff.com for more information as the contest approaches.