The grand prize winner of the 48 th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest has been named! After rigorous testing of thousands of entries, four stood out as the best of the best, with the grand prize awarded ...

In 1996, single dad and home cook Kurt Wait became the first and so far only man to win the Pillsbury Bake-Off — in the first year that the contest prize was raised to $1 million.

Throughout my 25-plus years writing about recipes, some of my favorite competitive kitchen stories have come from writing about the annual Pillsbury Bake-Off competition and our local contestants ...

Click here for the Every Single Winning Dish From the Pillsbury Bake-Off Slideshow. The iconic contest has been revolutionizing the way home cooks bake and make quick and easy dinners for 68 years.

The first Pillsbury Bake-Off was held in New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel grand ballroom in 1949. A hundred bakers competed for $100,000 worth of prizes. (Mcelleney, ...

A column I wrote in October, which mentioned the annual Pillsbury Bake-Off, prompted Marie Russo, of Highland, to ask me about the status of this legendary culinary competition.The October column ...

The Pillsbury Bake-Off is considered the queen bee of cooking contests, but Mathews started small, as an avid backpacker who stumbled on a 1980 REI competition to develop freeze-dried camping meals.

Pillsbury has made changes in the contest in recent years. After being held yearly since 1949, the contest changed to every other year and eventually raised the grand prize to $1 million.

When the Pillsbury Bake-Off rolls into Orlando’s Portofino Bay Hotel on Sunday, the table could be set for a few history-making dishes.In 1999, the Bake-Off Hall of Fame was established to help ...

General Mills Inc. officially launched the 51st annual Pillsbury Bake-Off on Monday with a surprising new rule: No ovens allowed, leaning into the rising popularity of alternative cooking and ...

Mary Beth Mandola (left to right), Nancy Olson, Kelly McWherter and Jane Michel are four local contestants in the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest, sample each other's dishes, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 ...