Experience: "I've never entered the Bake-Off before, but I've bought the magazine of the winners at the grocery store. I did win the grand prize a few years ago at the Draper Chocolate Affair, and third place the following year."

The prize money: "I wouldn't buy a new house or car, I'd get new shutters for my house. I'd let everyone in the family pick one luxury item. Both my husband and I have jobs with no retirement plan, and I'm getting to the age where I'm thinking we'll need some money to live on."

Advice: "Don't think that anything you've made is wrong, just go ahead and enter it. I almost didn't enter my recipe, because I didn't know if it was good enough, even though it tasted good to me."

JUMBO HONEY-ROASTED PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH COOKIES

Prep time: 25 minutes

Start to finish: 1 hour 10 minutes

2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (Jif preferred)
2 tablespoons honey

1. In large bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter and honey with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add powdered sugar; beat just until smooth. Cover; refrigerate at least 1 hour while baking and cooling cookies.

2. Heat oven to make cookies as directed on package. Cool completely.

3. Spread 1/3 cup cream cheese mixture on bottom of 1 cookie; top with another cookie, bottom side down. Press cookies together slightly so cream-cheese mixture just extends past edges of cookies. Roll edge of cream cheese mixture in chopped peanuts to generously coat. Repeat with remaining cookies.

4. Serve immediately, or store in single layer tightly covered in refrigerator up to 4 hours (cookies stored longer become very soft). Makes 8 sandwich cookies.

Nutritional information per serving: 730 calories, 47 grams fat, 70 mg cholesterol, 560 grams sodium, 60 grams carbohydrate,16 grams protein, 2 grams dietary fiber, 16 grams protein. Percent Daily Value: 15 percent vitamin A, 6 percent calcium, 10 percent iron.