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In the world of cooking contests, the Pillsbury Bake Off is a big one. The contest has been around for more than fifty years, the inaugural bake off taking place in 1949, and today the grand prize at the Pillsbury Bake Off is an amazing one million dollars.

Who wants to be a millionare?

For the first twenty years of the Pillsbury Bake Off's history, the cooking contest was held once a year, and the prize money, although significant, was much less than it is today. The grand prize for the first Pillsbury Bake Off was only fifty thousand dollars.

Eventually, the contest was only hosted once every two years, and in 1996 the Grand Prize became the one million dollars that it is today, along with fifty thousand in runners-up prizes.

The Pillsbury Bake-Off has also, in the past, been a nationally televised event that has featured such notable hosts as Bob Barker, Art Linkletter, Alex Trebek, and Marie Osmond.

44th Annual Pillsbury Bake-Off - 2010 Contest Rules

The next scheduled date for the Pillsbury Bake-Off is scheduled over several days from April 11 -13 2010 in Orlando FL. All eligible entries must be received by April 20, 2009, and can be easily submitted online at pillsbury.com/BakeOff - the contest's official site.

The twist to the Pillsbury Bake Off is that contestants must use at least two products from a list of products made by Pillsbury. Beyond that, they aren't many regulations, and past winners have made a wide variety of dishes — from cookies to pies to paninis.

Finalists who send in their recipes and make it through the judging process will have their recipes hosted on the official bake off website, where they are judged by visitors to the site. Past winner and finalist recipes are also, of course, hosted on the website, and have detailed cooking instructions as well as ratings, reviews, and plenty of mouth watering pictures...

More about the Pillsbury Bake-Off around the Web:

Pillsbury Bake-Off - The official site featuring submission tips, entry form, FAQ, photos and featured recipes from contests past.

Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest Offers Fame/Fortune - Feature story with complete entry and eligibility rules, recipe categories, and judging criteria.

Pillsbury Bake-Off - Advice from the contestants - Knox News with a feature a video offering interviews with recent bake-off contests, related stories.

The Pillsbury Bake-Off - About.com guide with insider details and complete recipes from past winners.

Pillsbury Bake-Off - Wikipedia - Brief overview with a list of every recipe that took the grand prize from 1942 to the present, with related references and resources.

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