Welcome to Cook with Us #7!

News Flash

The Cook with Us team is constantly looking for ways to best serve our wonderful contestants. We are currently re-evaluating the Winners Circle, and will soon implement some changes. Please tune back for further announcements.

The theme for Cook with Us #7: Cookie Jar

You know that smell. Vanilla beans, caramelized sugar and butter fill the air with anticipation. It is sweet, familiar and comforting. It is the smell of cookies baking. Cookies are such a delicious and important food in our culture. They appear at so many of our social gatherings and they are beloved by everyone.

Baking cookies is often our first experience preparing food, in the kitchen, as children. We remember those times so fondly of helping to measure the ingredients, mixing up the batter and of course scooping up a little sample of dough to make sure it tastes good! Then when we are older we get the pleasure of teaching our children how to bake cookies and we get to watch their excitement as they learn all the steps and get to taste the finished cookies.

Well, now it is your turn to share with the Cook with Us community your favorite cookie or bar. Share with us the story behind your cookie. Who taught you how to make it? Is it a family recipe or from a favorite book? Think about these questions as you tell us about your favorite cookie or bar.

And of course, let's not forget the little ones. This is the perfect opportunity to get your children involved!

If you have any suggestions for future themes, let us know. And please don't forget to comment and upvote each other's posts in the Cook with Us community.

We wish you good luck and look forward to your creations!

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The Cook with Us Contest

The Cook with Us team - @chefsteve , @pandamama and @offoodandart - is very excited to welcome you and look forward to getting to know you as we cook or create dishes together. It is our intention to build a community of people that enjoy cooking and sharing with each other. We are pleased to announce the following prizes for this challenge:

• First place - 5 SBD

• Second place - 3 SBD

• Third place - 1 SBD

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Cook with Us Official Contest Rules

Please take some time to review the contest rules below. We have made a few changes. We understand that a lot of work is put into every post and we do not want to disqualify anyone for not following the rules. If you are unsure about any of them, just ask us for some clarification. We will be happy to help you.

Contest Entry Rules

• The title of your post should look like this: Cook with Us #7 – Name of your dish. For example, Cook with Us #7 - Chocolate Chip Cookies.

• The first tag on your entry must be: cookwithus.

• Please upvote and resteem this @cookwithus post that you are submitting an entry for.

• The first time you enter this competition, submit a proof photo. This can be in the form of a handwritten note with your Steemit name, the name of the dish, and the date with your entry - or it can be a photograph of yourself with your dish. Thereafter, you will not need a proof photograph going forward as we will know who you are. Please do not use Photoshop for the proof photo.

• Include a description of the dish. Some examples are the taste of the dish, its origin, or the story behind it.

• Describe why your dish works. Give a brief description about why you put these ingredients together.

• Post a link to your entry in the comments section of the weekly challenge. This is the post that announces the start of the week's contest

• You can only enter one dish per entry (a dish means a single version. Not one dish two or three ways). You may only enter one entry per week.

General Contest Rules

• Contest ends every Monday 12:00 UTC.

• Results will be published no later than Thursday 12:00 UTC, three days after the contest is closed.

• Entries do not have to be original. However, if not original, please provide the source.

• While there is a calendar showing future themes, entries can only be submitted for the current week's contest and only after the official post for the contest is made. Entries submitted before the official start date or after the deadline will not be considered valid entries.

• The Cook with Us contest will cover many topics and disciplines. Make sure you check for weekly contest rules that may change due to the nature of the challenge.

• By entering @cookwithus, the contestant agrees to their material being used by the organizers for any purposes and will not be compensated should the material be published. But you, the author/photographer, will be given written credit.

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The Cook with Us Calendar

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Acknowledgements

There were many people that helped us to get this competition up and running. We would like to say a BIG thank you to them all and express our sincere gratitude for their contributions.

We are delighted with the caricatures made for us by @bazbiscuit and already people are asking where they can get these delightful little characters. Thank you Barry!

@jacklimberis made our banner and gif for us. Thank you Jack - we really appreciate all the hard and beautiful work!

Thank you @edenmichelle for making the youtube video for us.

Please follow @jacklimberis, @bazbiscuit, @edenmichelle, @theywillkillyou, @world5list, @world-travel-pro and @heyitshaas. We hope to add to this list of supporters of our competition. If you would like to be a supporter of @cookwithus, please contact us. We would love to hear from you.

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