Friday, March 8, 2013

Penderwick Chocolate-Chip Cookie Bake-Off Results!

Thank you to all the participants of the 1st Annual Penderwick Chocolate-Chip Cookie Bake-Off (PC3BO)!  It was lots of fun and I hope you enjoyed sampling lots and lots of cookies this morning.  Despite there being winners and losers, aren't we all winners?  We all were able to eat yummy cookies!!!  

How did I come up with the results?  With the help of Mrs. Goh (please thank her the next time you see her...nothing happens in our home without her), we inputted every one of the over 350+ scores into MS Excel.  Then, we took out the highest and lowest scores from each category for each cookie (aka the "outliers").  Then I took the average (mean) for each category.  Then, I took the mean of each cookie's scores to come up with an overall score out of 100.  

First, the honorable mentions...
These cookies didn't place in the top 3 but had the highest scores in individual categories (first to third place cookies were excluded).  

MOST BEAUTIFUL COOKIE - Joshua B (Cookie #3)
MOST DELICIOUS COOKIE - Joshua V (Cookie #5)
COOKIE WITH BEST TEXTURE - Madison W (Cookie #12)

Now...for the winners of the 1st Annual PC3BO

1.  Madison Peters (Cookie #8) - Overall Score = 86.1
2.  Rachel Saint (Cookie #2) - Overall Score = 82.6
3.  Addison Vaughn (Cookie #13) - Overall Score = 82.1

The overall results in cookie order.  
Apppearance/Taste/Texture = Overall Score





Cookie #1 (JT) - 74.2/79.7/74.47=76.2



Cookie #2 (Rachel) - 83.1/81.7/82.9 = 82.6
SECOND PLACE!



Cookie #3 (Josh B) - 83.1/71.8/77.7 = 77.5
MOST BEAUTIFUL!



Cookie #4 (Jane) - 76.5/78.9/81.0 = 78.8



Cookie #5 (Josh V) - 82.4/81.9/75.9 = 80.1
MOST DELICIOUS!



Cookie #6 (Katelyn) - 74.9/77.8/76.6 = 76.4



Cookie #7 (Mrs. Goh/Naomi/Taylor) - 73.5/72.4/79.4 = 75.1



Cookie #8 (Madison P) - 87.1/85.0/86.3 = 86.1
FIRST PLACE!



Cookie #9 (Anna) - 83.3/79.5/79.7 = 80.9



Cookie #10 (Alexis) - 76.3/65.6/73.3 = 71.7



Cookie #11 (Cody) - 75.4/72.0/71.6 = 73.0



Cookie #12 (Madison W) - 78.7/69.9/85.5 = 78.0
BEST TEXTURE




Cookie #13 (Addison) - 84.4/80.5/81.5 = 82.1
THIRD PLACE!



Thank you Mrs. Kelso for taking and sending these yummy pictures to me!

Thank you to all the parents who came to taste test too!

8 comments:

  1. That was so fun. :) thank you everybody for rating mee

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  2. I really enjoyed this activity. Congrats to all the winners! Everyone did a great job; it was really hard deciding the scores because they were all so good.

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  3. Thank you for voting me 2nd.:)
    I hope that you all had fun baking and even though I "had" to break my lent, I really enjoyed tasting all the cookies!

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    1. Haha! My cookie was #12. I guess I did pretty good on the texture haha :D I put a slice of apple in my container because it keeps the cookies moist and soft. I recommend it. :)

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  4. Great job 5th grade! I had fun participating in the judging of all your cookies! Quite a few good little bakers!! Have a great weekend! And don't eat too many cookies at home.

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    1. I failed that last sentence.. :/ ugh oh well

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