Biscuit

Registration Ends: Monday, Sept. 5, 11:59pm
Entry Drop Off: Saturday, Sept. 10, 10am-12pm
Winners Announced: Sunday, Sept. 11, 12pm

Ingredients List Due: Wednesday, Sept. 7, 11:59pm

Winners will be announced on the Fair Main Stage and on the DC State Fair website.

DC Gateway Pavilion
St. Elizabeth’s East
2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE
Washington, DC, 20032

 

Awards Given

Blue, red, and white ribbons will be awarded in the following category:

  • Best Overall Biscuit

  • Best Buttermilk (Plain) Biscuit

  • Best Flavored Biscuit (Savory)

  • Best Flavored Biscuit (Sweet)

Best overall biscuit selected from best of three biscuit categories.

Judging Criteria

  1. Appearance: 25%

  2. Texture: 25%

  3. Crumb: 25%

  4. Taste/Flavor/Appeal: 25%

 

Contest Rules

  1. You must be an amateur baker. 

  2. You can enter up to two recipes per category.

  3. Your biscuits must be made from scratch (no prebaked, premade/packaged mixes).

  4. You must make the biscuits yourself.

  5. You must submit 6-8 biscuits from the same batch.

YOU CANNOT ENTER IF:

  • Your biscuits contain any of the following: uncooked cream, cream cheese, Jell-O/gelatin, raw eggs, or other products that are high risk for spoilage. No items that require refrigeration will be accepted. 

  • You are a food professional including a licensed baker/caterer; oversee/supervise the preparation of food in a restaurant, bakery, carryout, grocery, deli, cafeteria, food truck, or any place where food is prepared and sold; own a food making/baking business; or a professional food writer who writes recipes for pay.

Please bring your entry on either a heavy-duty paper or a plastic plate in a clear food grade Ziploc bag. Please write the entry name (Example: “Amy’s Buttermilk Biscuits”) on the bag. Please do not write your name on the bag.