Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000
I turned my grandmother’s cookie recipe into a brand. Being featured in Taste of Home is the moment that makes it all worth it.
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Brown butter, white miso, and dark chocolate chip cookies, my grandmother’s recipe, modernized. The miso adds a quiet depth that makes people stop mid-bite and ask “what IS that?” It’s the cookie that started a brand.
Who is your culinary inspiration?My grandmother, we called her Bubbi. She cooked without recipes, without measurements, and without ever needing to be told it was good. She just knew. I’ve spent years trying to reverse-engineer that confidence, and it’s made me a better cook every time I try.
What would you do with the $25,000?I’m launching Bubbis Cookies, a single-SKU premium cookie brand built around my grandmother’s recipe. The $25,000 would fund my first real production run, proper packaging, and a market pop-up to prove the demand is real. This is the cookie that deserves to be in kitchens everywhere, not just mine
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