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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 Cookie

  • Best Vegan Cookie

  • Best Gluten-Free Cookie

Judging Criteria

  1. Appearance: 25%

  2. Texture: 25%

  3. Crumb: 25%

  4. Taste/Flavor/Appeal: 25%

 

Contest Rules

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

  2. You must be an amateur baker. 

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

  4. You must make the cookies yourself.

  5. You must submit 10-12 cookies from the same batch.

YOU CANNOT ENTER IF

  • Your cookies 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 in a clear food grade Ziploc bag. Please write the name of your entry on the bag.