Who Can Enter?

You are eligible if you are 18 years of age or older as of January 6, 2011, and are a legal United States resident residing in one of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia at the time of the Contest Finals.  Entrants must also be registered members of pillsbury.com.

You are not eligible to enter and will be disqualified if:

• You are a food professional, such as a chef, food writer, food home economist, food educator, or someone who creates recipes for pay
  
  
• You are a paid food blogger

• You graduated from a culinary school/program or are enrolled in a culinary school/program as of January 6, 2011.
  
  
• You, your spouse, your parent or your child (all regardless of present place of residence) or anyone currently living in your household has been a finalist in three or more Bake-Off® Contests, or has previously been a Bake-Off^® Grand Prize Winner
  
  
• You are an employee of General Mills, General Electric Company, The J.M. Smucker Company,  Land O’ Lakes, Inc., John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc./Fisher^® Nuts, The Hershey Company, McCormick & Company, Inc., Don Jagoda Associates Inc., Peabody Orlando Hotel, or any other sponsors of the Contest or any of their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, or any promotion, advertising, judging or public relations company doing business with any of the above, or any of their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, or a member of the immediate family (parent, children, siblings, spouse, regardless of where they live) or live in the same household of such employees (whether related or not).