In 2012, Erika started her blog The Pancake Princess as a casual way to share her favorite recipes, but things changed in 2016 when she began her quest to find the very best chocolate chip cookie recipe out there (spoiler alert: Cook’s Illustrated was the clear winner). Erika had no idea that this would be the beginning of dozens of bake offs (she’s currently at over 60 and counting) with anywhere from 9-12 recipes for each of her bake offs.   Join us as we chat on the show about how Erika selects recipes for each bake offs, what it’s like making a dozen of the same recipe, how she chooses tasters to score each bake off, and what life looks like since she’s moved from Houston to New York City.     Erika has won several awards including the Southern Living 2021 Cook Of the Year, Saveur’s blog award for Best Baking & Sweets in 2019, and we know that you’ll want to give her a trophy too after you listen in on how she’s making the world a better place, one bake off at a time.  Resources:   Erika’s first ever bake off (chocolate chip cookies)   See all of Erika’s Bake Offs   Get exclusive recipes & access to more bake offs on Erika’s Substack   Follow Erika on Instagram   Follow Female Foodie on Instagram