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Cookie crumbles contest

  • Jul 22, 2014

Send us your favorite cookie recipe, and you may win a prize! Be sure to share where the recipe came from and why you love it.

Send your submissions to GiftedYouth@americanmensa.org with the recipe in the body of the email. Pictures you took are welcome! (Please do not send PDF documents.) The deadline to submit your recipe is Oct. 10, 2014.


Winners

The winners of the Cookie Crumbles Contest are:

Bar Cookie:
Buttery-finger Cookie Bars from Melody K., age 7, Broward Mensa

Easy Cookie:
Peanut Butter Cookies by Sofia H., age 9, Denver Mensa

Runner-up:
Haley's Peanut Butter Yummies by Haley B., age 7, Mensa of Jacksonville

Ultimate Cookie:
Selah’s Hawaiian Breeze Cookies by Selah T., age 8, Central Florida Mensa

Family Recipe:
Muesli Chocolate Chip Cookies by Henry L., age 5, North Texas Mensa

Special mention: Pignoli (Pine Nut) Cookies by Tristan G., age 11, Tampa Bay Mensa


Divisions
  • Super Easy – These are the cookies that are so easy, even very young children can make them or they have very few ingredients. This is also the category for recipes that can’t be ruined!
  • Bar Cookies – No time to roll out walnut-sized balls of dough? Excellent! We are looking for bar cookie recipes that bake in a pan.
  • Family Recipe – Does your grandma or grandpa have a family recipe that’s been handed down? If you’re willing to share it, this is the category for it.
  • Ultimate Cookie – Is your cookie the best, most tasty cookie ever? We’re looking for cookies that are wonderful enough to earn the title “Ultimate Cookie.”
  • Holiday Cookie – Is it not Christmas without a special cookie? Send us your holiday cookie recipes (not just Christmas) and share the festive baked goodness.

The Details
  • We can take mailed-in entries, and images, but not PDFs.
  • Entries must include entrant's name and membership number.
  • One entry per person.
  • All eligible recipes will be complied into a special e-cookbook to share with everyone, so please join in.
  • We cannot accept recipes that are copyrighted. Be sure to follow copyright law regarding recipes: “Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients. Copyright protection [does] extend to substantial literary expression — a description, explanation, or illustration, for example — that accompanies a recipe or formula or to a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook.”

Entry deadline is Oct. 10. Enter by emailing your entry to GiftedYouth@americanmensa.org. (Unfortunately, we cannot accept PDF files.) Or mail your entry to 1229 Corporate Drive W., Arlington, TX 76006-6103.