Tag: Gold Medal Flour

Lemon Chess Pie

Lemon Chess Pie: learn how to make this delicious and easy blue ribbon winning pie from the State Fair of Texas, Lisa Arnold (2015).

Sometimes you want a simple and delicious dessert. Chess pies are classic and easy to make. This citrus sweet treat is a crowd-pleasing winner. It won “Best of Show” at the 2015 State Fair of Texas. Lisa Arnold took home top honors with it and a “Best Baker Award” from Gold Medal Flour.

You know a pie is delicious when it stays in rotation as long as this lemon chess pie has.

Make it with her favorite home-made crust recipe, or if you need a wonderful time-saver, try it with a pre-made pie crust. Either way, you will be in pie heaven!

-Cyndi

p.s. Do you love lemon like we do? Do a search for lemon on this page and find a plethora of citrus creations to make.

Double Chocolate S’more Sandwich Cookies

Double Chocolate S’more Sandwich Cookies: S’more inspired treats are so much fun. So decadent. So delicious.

Sheet pan full of cookies

Barrie Linberg at the 2013 L.A. County Fair won a blue ribbon for these sandwich cookies; 1st place, Gold Medal Flour best cookie contest. The young baker grew up baking with her mother, who is also a blue ribbon baker.

Barrie Linberg Blue Ribbon Cookie Home Baker

Barrie named her creation “S’Mookies” for S’more cookies. She said they were inspired by cupcakes she saw on TV. She took the concept and morphed it into an entirely new recipe. Barrie’s Double Chocolate S’more Sandwich Cookies are a delight to bake and taste.

Double Chocolate S'more Sandwich Cookies closeup

There is both cocoa and chocolate chips in the cookie dough. They end up soft and almost cake-like in texture, but also chewy. So delightful. Inside you have a rich marshmallow/vanilla cream and graham cracker crumb filling.

Double Chocolate S'more Sandwich Cookies in pan

Wow. Don’t miss out on making these tantalizing treats.

-Cyndi