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2009-2010 Recipe Contests, Cook-Offs, Bake-Offs, Food Videos & Food Related Contests for both amateur cooks & professional chefs
Most of these contests have very good prizes, some up to $1,000,000 in cash for the grand prize winner. If you like to cook, and have a great recipe, why not enter? You just might win!
Click Here for a list of previous Contests with expired deadlines
Contests are listed in order, by the Deadline date for entering the contest.
- Bays Quarterly Recipe Contest - Quarterly Deadlines
A different theme for each quarterly contest. Recipes must use one or more Bays English Muffins, serve 4-6 people and use no more than 8 ingredients (not including Bays English Muffins, water, salt and pepper). Recipes judged on the basis of taste, appearance, imagination, practicality, appropriateness for an English muffin, and fit with the quarterly theme.
Prizes: One First Place Winner will receive a $500 cash prize.
- Mixing Bowl Monthly Recipe Contest - Monthly Deadlines
A new theme and details for each monthly contest. Enter your favorite recipe to win, or vote for someone else's recipe. Recipe & Photo required. Prizes: One $250 Grand Prize for each contest.
- BigTen Cookout Recipe Contest - Final Period Deadline: November 19, 2009
6 Contest Periods: Deadlines: Sept 10 & 24; Oct 8 & 22; Nov 5 & 19
Submit an original recipe using Ro*Tel Diced Tomato Products and Velveeta Cheese Products.
A total of six (6) prizewinners will be selected, one for each Promotion Period. (Deadlines for each period: Sept 10, 24; Oct 8, 22; Nov 5, 19)
One winner in each period receives a Big Ten Network prize package: various Big Ten Network merchandise and a $100 Big Ten Network Store gift card.
- “You Got Boxed” Video Contest - Deadline: November 30, 2009
Black Box Wines is launching the “You Got Boxed” contest to challenge its fans to let their friends in on a secret they have known for some time – quality wines can come from a box. How to Box Your Guests
Boxing your friends and family is easy. Simply host a dinner party, wine tasting or other gathering and serve boxed wine without revealing the package. As the party nears completion, surprise the crowd by showing them that they’ve been enjoying boxed wine and be sure to get their reaction on video.
Consumers 21 and older are encouraged to submit their two minute video that best tells the story of the surprise moment when guests realize they are drinking quality wine from a box. Fans are then invited to vote online for their favorite video. Each month a winner will be awarded $2,000 and the $10,000 grand prize winner will be chosen from the six monthly winners.
PRIZES:
6 Monthly Prizes: $2,000.00 cash each
One Grand Prize: $10,000.00 cash.
- Rνas Baixas Albariρo Wines Recipe Contest - Deadline: November 30, 2009
Amateur cooks across the country are invited to put their culinary skills to the test by submitting their favorite original recipe paired with Rνas Baixas Albariρo Wines for this year’s fourth annual Recipe Pairing Contest. Entries must be your original recipes paired with an Albariρo wine from Rνas Baixas. The recipe should make 6 servings and include no more than 10 ingredients that are readily available (salt and pepper will not be counted in the 10 ingredients). If possible, please include a digital photograph of the prepared dish.
The Grand Prize Winner with the best recipe will win a trip to Los Angeles and two tickets to the 36th Annual People’s Choice Awards® in 2010.
Consumers can also log onto the website to vote for the “People’s Choice”—their favorite recipe from last year’s finalists. One randomly selected voter will also win the grand prize trip and the chance to cozy up to Hollywood’s hottest celebrities!
- Cleanseas Hiramasa Recipe Contest - Deadline: November 30, 2009
For Professional Chefs and Culinary Students of the United States and Canada.
Clean Seas Tuna Ltd., in partnership with the Milestone Culinary Arts Center of Dallas, invites you to submit an original recipe using raw, cooked, or smoked preparations of Cleanseas Yellowtail Kingfish (Hiramasa).
This will be an “East versus West” competition, for all United States and Canada. Each region will have three prize winners: first: $2,000; second: $1,000; third: $500.
A grand prize, determined by "cook off" of the two 1st place winners, to be presented at the International Boston Seafood Show in March 2010, will be a round-trip coach airline ticket to Port Lincoln, South Australia, to visit Clean Seas Tuna Ltd., with room and meals provided for one week.
- CookingTipsTV.com Video Contest - Deadline: December 1, 2009
Get your cooking self in a video and prepare your regional cuisine. You know your local ingredients and recipes so let them shine! Got tips? Be sure to include those too! Your video should be no larger than 100 MB and submit in either: mpg, mov or avi formats. Your video must be owned by you without explicit material.
Professional Chefs and Home Cooks (Foodies) will be judged separately.
There are regional prizes for: Northeast, Southeast, Mid-West, Southwest, Northwest, West Coast, Hawaii and Alaska in the US.
It’s all about regional products and educating people.
Internationally, if your country will allow contests, you’re in.
Grand Prize is Enclume's most popular pot rack model for over three decades. This classic oval design is modeled after the first pot racks created for the King of France by his chefs three centuries ago.
John Boos Cutting Boards, Chef’s Design French Roaster, Dansk Peppermills, Xtreme cookware, Kyocera Knives, Minden Stove Top Grill, and Le Creuset French Oven are some of the regional prizes to be awarded.
Winners will be chosen by CookingTipsTV.com judges and the voting public. Please see contest rules
Don’t forget to have your friends vote for your video!
- Holiday Baking Challenge Starring California Walnuts - Deadline: December 4, 2009
Walnuts are a star ingredient this time of year and the Holiday Baking Challenge is looking for unique homemade recipes that incorporate walnuts in inventive ways to celebrate the season. Whether it’s a time treasured family favorite or a unique baked recipe that’s perfect for holiday gift giving, this contest celebrates tradition and innovation in holiday baking.
Recipes can be entered into one of four food categories with an option of entering the recipe in two additional categories - video and SMART.
The 4 food categories and 2 optional categories:
1. Cookies, Brownies and Blondies: perfectly portioned treats from the oven can double as delicious gifts for friends and neighbors
2. Cakes and Pies: classic baked desserts that delight a crowd, these recipes are well suited for holiday entertaining
3. Breads: walnuts sparkle in quick breads and yeast breads...also in muffins, rolls, loaves...
4. Breakfast / Brunch Baked Items: start the day with cinnamon rolls or coffee cake, but walnuts also add crunch to savory strata or quiche
The video category is a great way for contestants to present their recipe in a number of ways, such as sharing holiday anecdotes or demonstrating their baking techniques!
The SMART category is for recipes that are made over to be less indulgent but still delicious versions of classic, favorite treats. Our Smart Eating Style page has an outline of how to make recipes smarter for those who would like to enter this category.
Grand Prize of a KitchenAid Classic Stand Mixer ($200.00) will be awarded in each of the 6 categories.
In addition to the Grand Prize winners, each week, random winners will be chosen from all new qualifying recipes.
Drawings will take place on Monday for the previous week’s qualifying recipes entered. Winners will receive one of a variety of prizes such as Emily Luchetti’s “Classic Stars Desserts” cookbook, California Walnut Board aprons, spatulas and cookie cutters.
- “Flavors of the Mediterranean” Contest - Contest runs Sept 20 thru December 20, 2009
STAR® Olive Oil invites home cooks across the country to share their favorite Mediterranean dishes in their “Flavors of the Mediterranean” Recipe Contest.
Recipes must be original and feature classic Mediterranean ingredients plus two STAR products, including STAR Olive Oil.
Grand prize winner will enjoy the magic of Catalonia Spain in an all-expense paid culinary adventure featuring daily cooking classes, visits to local wineries, food markets, historic sites and a private olive oil tasting and lunch at STAR’s facilities in Tarrega.
First and second prizewinners receive Sur La Table gift cards and the first 500 entrants will receive free STAR Olive Oil/Vinegar cruets.
Contest begins September 20 and runs through December 20, 2009 with final judging in January 2010. Complete rules, suggested ingredients, product list and official entry form will be available on our website on September 20.
- Uncover the Flavors of Kahlua Recipe Contest - Deadline: December 21, 2009
Submit your recipe made with Kahlua in one of these 5 categories:
Aperitif - Appetizer/hors D'oeuvre - Entree - Dessert - After Dinner Drink
Recipe must must include at least 2 ounces (of any Kahlua Flavor) of Kahlua, Kahlua must be integral to the dish or drink.
One (1) Grand Prize: One (1) Trip For Two (2) To New York City For A Cooking Lesson In The Saveur Kitchen.
- Cuisinart's Culinary Cook-off Video Contest - Deadline: December 30, 2009
3rd contest period of 6 (4 months each contest). One winner each contest period.
Submit an original video of less than 10 minutes. The only requirement for submission is that you use a Cuisinart product in your production. Otherwise the field is wide open. Surprise us! Come up with your own unique presentation. Enter to win now!
Visitors vote for best video, than Cuisinart judges pick winner from 3 most popular.
The winner will select 5 different Cuisinart products of their liking.
Entry Period Four: Jan. 1, 2010 - April 30, 2010
Entry Period Five: May. 1, 2010 - Aug. 31, 2010
Entry Period Six: Sept. 1, 2010 - Dec. 31, 2010
- Peanut Advisory Board Foodservice Recipe Contest Deadline: December 31, 2009
The contest is open to any foodservice trained chefs, educator or student 18 years or older.
Each original recipe must use at least 1/3 cup peanuts and/or peanut butter as an ingredient. A recipe can be entered in any of the 4 categories: Appetizer/Snack; Main Dish; Salad/Side Dish; Dessert.
Recipes will be judged on the basis of: taste/texture (50%); visual presentation/appearance (30%); originality (20%)
PRIZES:
One grand prize will be selected for a cash prize of $2,500.
One first prize of $1,000 will be awarded in each of the following categories:
Appetizer/Snack
Main Dish
Salad/Side Dish
Dessert
- Martha White Muffin Mix Challenge - Deadline: December 31, 2009
Create an original recipe using at least one of the 19 delicious varieties of Martha White® muffin mixes and you could win $5,000!
Each original recipe will be initially judged on five evenly-weighted criteria: taste, creativity, appetizing appearance, ease of preparation and appropriate use of Martha White product(s). After five finalists have been determined, online voting at www.marthawhite.com will help decide the Grand Prize winner.
1 Grand Prize: $5,000 and a $50 Martha White gift basket
4 First Prize Winners: $1,000 and a $25 Martha White gift basket
- Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancake Morning Moments Contest - Deadline: December 31, 2009
Photograph a breakfast moment with your child/children and submit a picture along with a description in 100 words or less, of how you share a delicious, warm moment in the morning with your child/children -- Capture your “morning Moments” on camera for the chance to win a family vacation.
Students who start the day with breakfast perform better at school. Aunt Jemima® Frozen Pancakes make it possible for kids to jump-start the school day with a hearty, homemade tasting breakfast that can be ready in minutes in the toaster or microwave and shared with the whole family. That’s why Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancakes, the brand that helps families add warmth to breakfast, wants parents to photograph their “Morning Moments” with their kids for the chance to win a family vacation to a warm location and other great prizes.
One grand prize winner will receive a warm getaway for a family of four (ARV: $5,000).
Ten finalists will each receive a digital camera to continue capturing their family’s moments (ARV: $200 each).
- CorningWare SimplyLite Recipe Contest - Deadline: December 31, 2009
Submit an original baking recipe, sweet or savory, that must qualify as “lite,” with ingredients that are low in fat and calories.
Recipes can be for a 1.5-qt., 2-qt., 2.5-qt. or 3-qt. dish or pan.
Recipes can be made in a CorningWare® SimplyLite® lightweight glass baking dish or any pan the contestant chooses, provided the volumes conform to those specified.
One Grand Prize of $5,000.
5 Runners-up prizes, each consisting of a 10-piece set of CorningWare SimplyLite glass bakeware (ARV$59.99)
- Mama Mary's Pizza Creations Recipe Contest - Deadline: December 31, 2009
Win $5,000 and a Trip to Disney World!
Quarterly Contest. Each quarter, 4 semifinalists will be chosen in each category.
Categories: Your Mama’s Favorite Pizza or Creative Creations Traditional or Dessert Pizza.
Recipes must specify use of Mama Mary's® Gourmet Pizza Crusts.
Semifinalists will receive a cappuccino machine and a free one-year supply of Mama Mary's® Gourmet Pizza Crusts.
Semifinalists qualify to compete for the Grand Prize.
One Grand Prize winner in each category will be chosen from the year's field of 16 Creative Creations Traditional or Dessert Pizza Recipe and 16 Your Mama's Favorite Pizza Recipe semifinalists.
Grand Prize winners will each receive a trip to Disney World plus $5,000, half of which ($2,500) will be donated by Spartan Foods of America, Inc. to the charity of each winner's choice.
- Better Recipes 2009 Annual Recipe Contest - Deadline: December 31, 2009
Have you created an original recipe? Put your own twist on a classic favorite?
Any type of recipe may be submitted, but the recipe must be original, unpublished and may not have previously won any award or prize.
One grand prize winner will receive $1000 and nine first prize winners will receive $100.
- Bass Pecan Company Recipe Contest - Deadline: December 31, 2009
All recipes entered in the Bass Pecan Recipe Contest must contain pecans as one ingredient.
A feature recipe will be chosen weekly and will be highlighted on our website. This recipe entrant will receive a free one pound bag of our natural mammoth halves.
At the end of each annual contest, one winner will be chosen as the Grand Prize Winner.
This contestant will receive The Grand Prize Of $1000.
- Mad About Mushrooms Recipe Contest - Deadline: January 14, 2010
If cooking and creating recipes is your passion, you are invited to participate in our 3rd annual mushroom cooking contest. We’re a southern Oregon website, www.MadAboutMushrooms, designed to celebrate wild mushrooming on the southern Oregon coast (and elsewhere around the Pacific Northwest). We invite you to share your original recipes and show how they use mushrooms to enhance your culinary life. Recipes may use either cultivated or wild mushrooms. The type of dish is yours to choose: appetizer, soup, salad/vegetable, main dish, miscellaneous (perhaps even a dessert!).
The grand prize winner will receive a locally made Port Orford Cedar plank and Salmon cookbook by Diane Morgan.
Contest rules and additional information are located on the website.
- 4th Annual Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off - Deadline: January 31, 2009
Do you have a kosher main dish recipe hiding in your collection that will make our mouths water? Does it include delicious Manischewitz ready-to-serve broth? Enter your original kosher recipe that uses at least one Manischewitz product PLUS Manischewitz ready-to-serve broth. Your dish should be simple and be able to be prepared from start to finish in one hour or less.
Top entries will be judged in our test kitchen and the 5 finalists will be sent to New York for a live Cook-Off showdown on March 18, 2010. Finalists will be required to prepare their recipes exactly as submitted.
One Grand Prize worth $25,000, including State-of-the-art GE Profile™ Stainless Steel Kitchen Appliances (ARV: $17,500); $500 grocery retailer gift card; a $5,000.00 check from Manischewitz; a home page feature on Manischewitz.com.
Five Finalist Prizes include a 2-day/1-night trip for each Finalist to New York City to compete in the Finalist cook-off; $100 American Express Gift Certificate, plus selected Manischewitz products (ARV $2,000 per Finalist Prize).
- “Make it Fabulous with Fillo” Recipe Contest - Deadline: February 1, 2010
Athens Foods’ is looking for original, quick and simple recipes using Athens Mini Fillo Shells or elegant, restaurant-style recipes including Athens Fillo Dough.
The contest is the perfect opportunity, in a challenging economy, to earn extra cash for doing something you love: cooking and baking.
The finalist prizes are:
$5,000 grand prize
2, $1,500 first place prizes
Unlike other recipe contests where entrants don’t know what they are competing against, Athens “Make it Fabulous with Fillo” recipe contest is a real-time, interactive contest with weekly and monthly prizes leading up to the finale.
44 weekly prizes, $50 each
10 monthly prizes, $120 each
1 ‘Fan Favorite’, $600
The weekly and monthly winners, which are judged by culinary professionals, will be announced throughout the contest on the Athens website, where visitors can comment and rate the recipes as they are entered.
The recipes will be judged using four main criteria for Fillo Dough recipes and four criteria for Mini Fillo Shell recipes. Each recipe can receive up to 10 bonus points: 5 points for a photo submission and 5 additional points for a video submission.
Beginning on July 1, consumers can visit www.phyllo.com to view the contest homepage.
- 4th International Olive Oil Competition Armonia - Alma Trophy
Northern Hemisphere Deadline: February 20, 2010
Northern Hemisphere: Italy, Spain, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Ex Jugoslavia, Albania, Grece, Turchia, Cypro, Iran, Iraq, Sirya, Palestina, Israel, Libano, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco,USA and all other countries producing olive oil.
International Extravirgin Oliveoil Agency in collaboration with
ALMA – The International School of Italian Cooking directed by Gualtiero Marchesi and
CRA – Centro di Ricerca per l’Olivicoltura e l’Industria Olearia (Olive Research institute) announces the:
4th International Olive Oil Competition “ARMONIA” -ALMA Trophy-
for international producers of high-quality extra-virgin olive oil, with the goal of promoting the awareness and knowledge of extra-virgin olive oil through the harmonization of flavor in food-oil pairings in gourmet cooking schools and restaurants internationally
For any clarifications or requests for further information, Ms. Sara Viti is at your disposition at the:
Secretary of the International Olive Oil Contest "ARMONIA"
Via Nursina 2, CRA-Centro di Ricerca per l'Olivicoltura e l'Industria Olearia, 06049 SPOLETO (PG) Italy
Tel. +39 3498965939 - Fax +39 0743 43634
Skype Contact: sara_viti - E-mail: premio.armonia@gmail.com
- California Wild Rice Rocks My World Recipe Rumble - Deadline: February 28, 2010
Contest for Chefs & other Culinary Professionals in California & Nevada.
Chefs, chefs-in-training, caterers and other culinary professionals are invited to compete for a total of $5,000 cash and prizes. The California Wild Rice Advisory Board is sponsoring the contest. The goal of the Wild Rice Rumble is to tap into the creativity of California and Nevada chefs and other culinary professionals by challenging them to craft compelling new ways of using and serving wild rice in restaurants, within catering operations and in other foodservice settings.
In addition to cash awards for the best recipes, photography enthusiasts will have an opportunity to submit photos of their recipe entries for a chance to win cash and prizes. Recipe and photo winners will also receive an array of wild rice products.
There are 3 Recipe Categories (Starters, Salads, Sides) and 1 Photo Category
4 Third Place Prizes of $125 for each of the 3 recipe categories and the best photo.
4 Second Place Prizes of $250 for each of the 3 recipe categories and the best photo.
4 First Place Prizes of $500 for each of the 3 recipe categories and the best photo.
1 Grand Prize of $1500 will be chosen from the three first-prize recipe winners.
All contest winners will receive a gift basket of California wild rice products.
The winning recipes and chef bios, supplied by the winners, will be included in the California Wild Rice Chefs Circle at www.cawildrice.com/chefs_circle.php.
The grand-prize winner and his/her recipe will be featured in a future issue of Culinary Trends magazine.
The other winning recipes and the best photos will be showcased on the California Wild Rice Advisory Board website (www.cawildrice.com) as well as Culinary Trends magazine (www.culinarytrends.net) and Contest Kitchen (www.contestkitchen.com) websites. The California Wild Rice Advisory Board’s public relations agency will produce and distribute a news release announcing the winners. The release will be distributed to the foodservice trade press, blogs, social networks and all daily and weekly newspapers in California and Nevada.
- 32nd Annual Great Gilroy Garlic Recipe Contest and Cook-Off - Deadline: May 1, 2010
(after clicking the link, scroll down the page for the 2010 info)
Recipes must use at least six cloves of fresh garlic, or the equivalent packaged form (3 teaspoon minced or chopped). Recipes must serve 6, be fully prepared, plated and ready for presentation to the judges within 2 hours. A photo of each entry should be included with the recipe submission.
Professional chefs, cooks, food stylists and other food specialists are prohibited from entering this contest.
Prizes are offered only to those finalists who participate in the Cook-Off on July 24, 2010.
The prizes are:
$1,000 for first place
$750 for second place
$500 for third place
$100 for each of the other five finalists.
Click Here for a list of previous Contests with expired deadlines
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