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For YWCA, A Chocolate Chip Cookie Revival

Winning contestant Patricia Walls, left, receives congratulations from fellow bake-off contestants Stacey Blisset Boyd, right, and Pamela Parker. Walls used graham cracker crumbs, blackstrap molasses and white chocolate bits. (By Rich Lipski -- The Washington Post)

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One judge called for more milk.

Then it was over, and the sheets were tabulated.

Croake, creator of the salty pretzel and peanut butter cookie, was the second runner-up.

Brown, who made the roasted hazelnut chocolate chip cookie, was the first runner-up.

And the winner was Walls, a home cook and baker with a background in nursing. She entered Stratford's culinary school this spring hoping to start a business with her daughter that will teach clients about healthy eating. Walls had named her graham cracker crumb and molasses cookie "the new-fashioned chocolate chip cookie."

Williams pronounced it "just the way a chocolate chip cookie should taste -- not too crispy or too chewy."

Orders for the new-fashioned cookie can be placed by going tohttp://www.ywcanca.organd following the prompts from "news and events." The Y is working out the price with local bakeries. Quantities will be limited.

Freelance writer Michaele Weissman last wrote for Food about office coffee clubs.

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