Pillsbury Bake Off 2010 Winner: Sue Compton's Winning Recipe

Sue Compton Won the Pillsbury Bake Off 2010 Thanks To This Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups Recipe

Sue Compton won the 2010 Pillsbury Bake Off Contest. The 56-year-old mortgage processor from Pennsylvania won a $1 million grand prize for her Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups recipe.

It was her first time entering the Pillsbury Bake Off Contest. Compton beat out more than 10,000 recipes, including 100 finalists who competed at the Waldorf-Astoria Orlando and Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek Hotel near Walt Disney World.

Pillsbury Bake Off 2010 Winning Recipe

Here is Sue Compton's winning Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups recipe.

INGREDIENTS
1    package (16 oz) Pillsbury® Ready to Bake!™ refrigerated sugar cookies (24 cookies)
4    teaspoons sugar
1/3    cup Fisher® Chef’s Naturals® Chopped Walnuts, finely chopped
1/2    cup Hershey’s® semi-sweet chocolate baking chips
1/4    cup Smucker’s® Seedless Red Raspberry Jam
1 1/2    cups vanilla bean ice cream, softened
24    fresh raspberries

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 24 mini muffin cups with Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray. Place 1 cookie dough round in each muffin cup. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.

2. Place 2 teaspoons of the sugar in small bowl. Dip end of wooden spoon handle in sugar; carefully press into center of each cookie to make 1-inch-wide indentation. Cool completely in pan, about 20 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, in small bowl, mix walnuts and remaining 2 teaspoons sugar; set aside. In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High 30 to 60 seconds, stirring after 30 seconds, until smooth.

4. Run knife around edges of cups to loosen; gently remove from pan. Dip rim of each cup into melted chocolate, then into walnut mixture. Place walnut side up on cookie sheet with sides.

5. In another small microwavable bowl, microwave jam uncovered on High about 15 seconds until melted. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon jam into each cup. Freeze cups about 5 minutes or until chocolate is set.

6. Spoon ice cream into cups, using small cookie scoop or measuring tablespoon. Top each cup with fresh raspberry. Store in freezer; let stand at room temperature 5 minutes before serving.

Compton and other Pillsbury Bake Off 2010 finalists appeared on the April 14 edition of the Oprah Winfrey Show.

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