Pie

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 Overall Pie (Best Pie in Show, selected from top category winners)

  • Best Apple Pie

  • Best Fruit Not-Apple Pie

  • Best Savory Pie

  • Best Crust (all entries will be judged for Best Crust)

Judging Criteria

  1. Appearance: 20%

  2. Crust: 20%

  3. Filling: 30%

  4. Taste/Flavor and Appeal (good balance of crust and filling, flavors and textures): 30%

 

Contest Rules

  1. You must be an amateur baker. 

  2. You can enter up to two separate pies (one pie in two different categories). Complete one form per entry.

  3. Your pies must be made from scratch -- crust and filling -- (no prebaked, premade/packaged crusts, or canned pie fillings).

  4. You must make the entire pie yourself.

YOU CANNOT ENTER IF

  • Your pie contains any of the following: uncooked cream, cream cheese, Jell-O/gelatin, raw eggs, or other products that are high risk for spoilage. No pies 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 anyplace 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 we recommend using a disposable pie plate.