Baking for a badge

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Makayla Cales (from
left), Kay Marie Straley, Amna Souai, Lindsay King and Makayla Gast pose with pies. Their Girl Scout
Cadette troop baked pies from scratch. (Photo provided)

Easy as pie?
Some Girl Scouts from Bowling Green Cadette troop 10906 participated in a pie-baking contest last month.
Each girl was to make a pie from scratch – crust and all.
"They were not allowed to use canned fruit or boxed pie mixes," said troop leader Rebecca King.
"They were not allowed to have any help from anyone, they had to do this all on their own."

Five of the seven girls in the troop participated,
Before this contest, none of the girls had ever made a pie from scratch, and a couple of the girls had
never baked before, King said.
"Working around the kitchen was a new experience for some of the girls. The pie baking contest was
meant to be a fun project, as well as, a new learning experience," she said.
When assistant leader Salesa Wills and King first brought this up to the girls, "half of the troop
responded with excitement, the other half had the look of fear written all over their face," King
said.
Some of the girls started practicing baking pies two weeks before the April 24 contest.
There were challenges. A couple of the girls ended up with a few cuts from peeling and cutting fresh
fruit.
"Lindsay King and Makayla Cales said they are sick of peeling and cutting apples, and they don’t
want to see another apple for a while," King said.
Judges were Cindy Hofner, Paula Hermes, Emily Kenney and Kristy and Steve Nicolo.
Makayla Gast made a chocolate pumpkin pie that looked like pure chocolate, but you could taste the
pumpkin, King said. There was also a strawberry pie and an apple-cranberry pie. Amna Souai demonstrated
a perfect pastry pie crust for her pecan pie.
The winning pie was baked by Lindsay King, with her brown bag apple pie. Lindsay said she baked the pie
in a brown paper bag, a recipe passed down from her great-grandmother.

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