TIL my cousin's award winning brownies used a box mix base

Oliver Torres · 2026-03-01T22:35:27.446723+00:00

My cousin won a local bake-off with brownies she passed off as fully from scratch. She told me later she started with a store bought mix and just added extra chocolate. Is it cheating to use a mix as a base in a contest that says all homemade?

emma_jones216mo ago

Remember when my friend's doctored cake mix took first place at our county fair?

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margaret9166mo ago

That's just creative interpretation of the rules.

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fox.mila6mo ago

My friend once won a pie contest with a frozen crust she doctored up, so that "all homemade" rule gets pretty fuzzy.

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