Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – When Project 412, a lakes area creative arts nonprofit, announced they were going to hold a chocolate chip cookie contest at the Becker County Fair this year, they thought they would get about 20 tasty submissions, they received a total of 53 plates of cookie entries.
Brooke Wenzel, a cookie contest judge, said the judges did have some criteria they were using to compare the bite size treats.
“How easy the recipes were to understand, what the taste was,” said Wenzel. “The appearance, how they would do with a big crowd of people, and there were some clear winners.
She also said the best part about the hot weather was the gooiness factor it brought to all of the cookie entries.
“The beauty of this weather is that a lot of the cookies tasted like they were just pulled out of the oven,” she said. “So a lot of them were very melty and gooey. But, it’s all in a day’s work, so this is a real fun work day for me.”
The blue ribbon winner of the 1st chocolate chip cookie contest was Alysha Baer of Lake Park who said she did have a secret ingredient, but she didn’t think it was much of a secret.
“It’s nothing special,” said Baer. “I mean, there’s some (vanilla) pudding mix in it, so that might have made it special.”
The top three finishers received a cash award, along with a custom apron and a wooden stir spoon.
Finishing in 2nd place was Deeann Pease of Detroit Lakes and the 3rd place finisher was Gary Hager of Detroit Lakes.
The competition organizers said they will definitely be holding another baking competition next year, but may pivot to a different dessert item.
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