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Bake-Off Grand Prize winner Julie Konecne (Bemidji) tastes her chocolate pecan praline layer cake, 1988.
Contestants in the Junior Division of the Bake-Off Contest in San Antonio, Texas, 1982.
Contestants form the number “21” in San Diego to commemorate the 21st Bake-Off contest, 1970.
Barbara Thornton and Art Linkletter at Pillsbury Bake-Off, Dallas, Texas, 1968.
Tunnel of Fudge Cake, Second Prize Winning Recipe, 1966.
Peanut Blossom Cookies. Winning senior grand national recipe, 1957.
Beatrice Ojakangas from Duluth, MN and Ronald Reagan at the Bake-Off in Los Angeles, 1957.
Breakfast for Pillsbury Bake-Off contestants, Los Angeles, 1957.
The Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson) and Philip Pillsbury sample Lily Wuebel's grand-prize-winning entry, orange kiss-me cake, in 1951.
Pillsbury Mills, Incorporated, CBS Photo, Grand National Bake-Off at the Waldorf Astoria, New York, 1950. Left to right: Art Linkletter, contestant, Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson), Philip Pillsbury.