Carolyn Gurtz of Gaitherburg, Md. is the newest Pillsbury Bakeoff millioniare. Her Her Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies are brilliantly simple..they build upon a roll of Pillsbury Create 'n Bake refrigerated peanut butter cookies, adding Jif peanut butter and chopped dry roasted peanuts. Wednesday's Food section will have the recipe.

Her win proves that tasting is believing. In doing my homework for this trip to the Pillsbury Bake-Off, I carefully looked through all the recipes and tried to guess which ones would be judged as tops. When I looked at the ingredients in Carolyn's cookies I dismissed them, thinking they'd be way too peanut buttery tasting, perhaps even gritty.

But that just goes to show that the proof is in the tasting. They are delicious...sort of like snickerdoodles in the way they hold together.. a little like the pleasant texture of a molasses cookie. I'm no baker, so the chemistry of the taste and texture eludes me, but I am guessing it has something to do with Carolyn's use of both confectioners sugar and granulated sugar. Tasting these babies made me a believer. You'll love them!