I gave GPT-3 your prompt. It seemed to focus a bit more on enthusiasm about the recipe than about literally quoting the recipe.
> Here is the greatest cookie recipe I've ever seen:
> Here is the greatest cookie recipe I've ever seen: Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies from the Minimalist Baker.
> I've made it four times in the last two weeks. It only takes 12 minutes to whip up and yields the most amazing cookies. These are soft, chewy, gooey, delicious, thick, thin, crunchy and mega chocolatey.
> It was hard to stop eating the cookies while I took the photos (even though I was on a 20-minute break from the photo shoot of my new ebook cover).
> Here is what the recipe looks like when printed out:
> Like all recipes from the Minimalist Baker, it's so simple, it's insane. No need for complicated gluten-free flours, unusual mixes of ingredients or 7-step recipes. Just:
> Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt
> Mix in chopped chocolate and peanut butter
> Add melted butter and milk
> Stir until combined
> Drop onto cookie sheet
> This recipe calls for 3/4 cup of peanut butter. I used Trader Joe's creamy peanut butter, and that's how it looks:
This confirms something I've noticed about GPT-3, or at least GPT-3 as it is trained using the public internet as a corpus...
This response reads exactly like a so-called "recipes" website, in which the writer gives their whole life story, side-notes, and wanders around over several paragraphs before finally getting to the damn recipe.
This makes me think the public internet is not the most sanitary input for training. That type of "recipe" evolved, IMO, to snatch the highest SEO rankings, adding a bunch of keywords, snippets, affiliate links, etc, instead of just giving me the text of the recipe. And now GPT-3 has learned the same SEO tricks (at least when you give it my input, which is a very click-baity opening, to be fair...)
I tried a new prompt with the name of the recipe from the previous output and the word "Ingredients:".
> Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies from the Minimalist Baker.
> Ingredients:
> 2 cups almond flour
> 1/4 cup cocoa powder
> 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
> 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
> 1/2 cup natural peanut butter
> 3/4 cup agave nectar (or brown rice syrup or coconut nectar)
> 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
> 1 tablespoon applesauce
> 1 cup chocolate chips
> Directions:
> Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix together almond flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. In a small bowl or measuring cup, mix peanut butter, agave nectar, vanilla, and applesauce until combined. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Add chocolate chips and stir gently until just combined. Use a 1-2 tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop cookies onto the lined baking sheet. (The cookies will not spread, so it doesn’t matter how closely you space them.) Bake for 10-12 minutes.
> Time:
> 30 minutes to prep and cook
Very good at producing something that credibly looks like a baking recipe. I'm not sure whether it would be good, but maybe I should try to bake it.
It's amusing that the first completion suggested that the recipe would have only commonly-used baking ingredients, while the second recipe notably uses almond flour instead of wheat flour, and agave nectar instead of sugar. (I'm actually now quite curious to actually bake these GPT-3-devised cookies and see how they come out... although I think I might use wheat flour instead of almond flour if I do!)
> Here is the greatest cookie recipe I've ever seen:
> Here is the greatest cookie recipe I've ever seen: Quick Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies from the Minimalist Baker.
> I've made it four times in the last two weeks. It only takes 12 minutes to whip up and yields the most amazing cookies. These are soft, chewy, gooey, delicious, thick, thin, crunchy and mega chocolatey.
> It was hard to stop eating the cookies while I took the photos (even though I was on a 20-minute break from the photo shoot of my new ebook cover).
> Here is what the recipe looks like when printed out:
> Like all recipes from the Minimalist Baker, it's so simple, it's insane. No need for complicated gluten-free flours, unusual mixes of ingredients or 7-step recipes. Just:
> Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt
> Mix in chopped chocolate and peanut butter
> Add melted butter and milk
> Stir until combined
> Drop onto cookie sheet
> This recipe calls for 3/4 cup of peanut butter. I used Trader Joe's creamy peanut butter, and that's how it looks: