I had a couple LLMs generate me cookie recipes "with an unusual, unique, or distinctive element," and will attempt to cook and rank them at some point in the near future. I plan on making them one-by-one in random order, releasing each one as a lightly-edited YouTube premier on https://www.youtube.com/@redcathode, but I'm open to suggestions.

Generated using ollama on my own machine, with a random seed. Entries were regenerated if they generated invalid LaTeX, with the exception of Gemma, which always did that. I used a temperature of 0.8 and a top_p of 0.6, and default settings for everything else.

User prompt:

Hi there! You're a contender in The Great LLM Bake Off, tasked with creating a recipe following these constraints and guidelines:

- Limit your ingredient selection to things you could find in a typical grocery store.

- Assume that your chef has at least moderate cooking experience.

- While not a hard requirement, try to keep the combined cook and prep time under 2 hours.

- Recipes should be plant-based, i.e. vegan.

- Avoid adding optional steps or ingredients.

- Add an unusual, unique, or distinctive element to your recipe.

- This round, create a cookie recipe (your choice of variety) that makes 3-4 cookies.

Additionally, here are the formatting guidelines:

- Output your final recipe document using a single LaTeX code block (denoted with ```latex at the beginning and ``` at the end).

- You may, in addition to this, use your response to first outline and plan out the recipe if you think it would help improve the final product.

- Use Imperial measurements.

- The title should be "{R1 Distill Qwen 14B | Phi 4 14B | Mistral Nemo 12B | Gemma 2 9B}".

Judging will be based solely on the quality of the final cookies made by our chef, although a good-looking recipe sheet definitely won't hurt. As a competitor, your goal is for the cookies made using your recipe to be the best cookies we make. Good luck!