Cake

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 categories:

  • Best Chocolate Cake

  • Best Cake (not chocolate)

  • Best Vegan Cake (across all categories)

  • Best Gluten-Free Cake (across all categories)

Judging Criteria

  1. Appearance: 25%

  2. Texture: 25%

  3. Crumb: 25%

  4. Taste/Flavor/Appeal: 25%

 

Contest Rules

  1. You may register up to four entries (1 per category). Please complete one form for each entry.

  2. You must be an amateur baker. 

  3. Entries do not need to be baked from an original recipe.

  4. All entries must be handmade from scratch. No mixes (cake, cookie, pudding, jello, frosting, icing or other mixes) will be accepted as ingredients in the product. You must make the cake yourself.

YOU CANNOT ENTER IF

  • Your cake cannot 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.

The DC State Fair organizers are not accountable for lost items, so please your entry on either a heavy-duty paper or a plastic plate or box. Please write the name of your entry on the box.