Thurmont & Emmitsburg Community Show’s Annual Baked Goods Auction

Do you have a new recipe that you have been wanting to try? Is there a favorite family recipe that has been passed down over generations? Looking for something for the kids to do this summer? If so, get ready to bake away and enter your delicious baked items at the annual Thurmont & Emmitsburg Community Show’s Baked Goods Department! The entry of exhibits information and premium list for all departments with their classes is available on the new website at ThurmontEmmitsburgCommunityShow.com. The 2024 Community Show books and blank entry tags for you to complete and bring with your entries can be picked up in Emmitsburg at Jubilee and Dollar General and in Thurmont at Weis Market and Dollar General. The Community Show book is also available on our website.

Dept. 9–Baked Products is the department where all ages—adults, youth (ages 11- 18), and junior (ages 10 and under)—enter their baked items, with classes for bread, cakes, pies, sugar free, gluten free, cookies, candy, cupcakes, and so forth.

A baking reminder that many entries—such as certain cakes, pies, cookies, brownies, candy, etc.—can be made and frozen about a month prior to being entered in the Community Show. Many baked goods exhibitors bake their cake layers and freeze them. Closer to the Community Show entry dates of Thursday and Friday, September 5 and 6, these baked good exhibitors thaw their cake layers and ice their cake layers right before their entries are due for a potential prize-winning entry!

All baked goods entries will be auctioned at the annual Community Show’s Baked Goods Auction on Friday evening, September 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Catoctin High School auditorium, immediately following the Community Show’s opening ceremonies. At 8:00 p.m., all Grand Champions & Reserve Champions will be sold for all ages. Prior to the start of the auction, bidder registration and bidder card number pickup will be on the auditorium’s stage. Winning bidders can pay for their baked goods items by cash or check only.

In the Adult Baked Goods Dept. (ages 19 and over), the following baked goods will be auctioned to benefit these organizations: Grand Champion Cake – Community Show; Reserve Champion Cake – Catoctin FFA Alumni & Supporters; Honorable Mention Champion Cake – Burall Brothers Scholarship Fund; Grand Champion Pie – Community Show; Reserve Champion Pie – Catoctin FFA Chapter; Grand Champion Bread – Community Show; Reserve Champion Bread – Thurmont Grange; Grand Champion Sugar Free Baked Product – Community Show; Reserve Champion Sugar Free Baked Product – American Diabetes Association; Grand Champion Gluten Free – Catoctin FFA Alumni & Supporters Scholarship; Reserve Champion Gluten Free – Thurmont Grange Scholarship and Decorated Cakes will be the Exhibitor’s Choice.

In the Youth Dept. (ages 11-18), the following baked goods will be auctioned to benefit these organizations: Youth Dept. Grand Champion Cake – In Honor & Memory of Mearl McCleaf for these three funds supporting our community’s youth: Thurmont Grange Scholarship, Catoctin FFA’s National FFA Convention Trip, and the Catoctin FFA Alumni & Supporters Scholarship; Youth Dept. Reserve Champion Cake – Catoctin FFA Chapter; Youth Dept’s Decorated Cakes – the benefitting organization is the Exhibitor’s Choice.

In the Junior Dept. (ages 10 and under), the following baked goods will be auctioned to benefit these organizations: Junior Dept. Grand Champion Cake – Thurmont & Emmitsburg Food Banks; Junior Dept. Reserve Champion Cake – Catoctin FFA Chapter.

A reminder for all baked goods exhibitors that premiums for the cake, pie, bread, and most of the candy classes in the Baked Goods Dept. are: 1st Place—$14.00; 2nd Place—$12.00; 3rd Place—$11.00. For the Youth Dept. and the Junior Dept., the premiums for only the baked items classes are: 1st Place—$14.00; 2nd Place—$12.00; 3rd Place—$11.00. At the Community Show—due to lack of refrigeration—the following baked goods are not accepted: meringue or custard pies, cheesecakes, and cream cheese icings or fillings. Baked goods must be on disposable plates, and pies must be in disposable aluminum pans. No cake mixes or other mixes are to be used. Decorated cakes must have a cake base.

Bakers of all ages in the Catoctin feeder area are encouraged to enter their baked goods at this year’s Community Show and to possibly receive one of the many awards, ribbons, and prize premiums that are offered to exhibitors. All baked good items for all ages are entered at Dept. 9 – Baked Products. Entry of exhibits in the gymnasium and agriculture department is September 5, from 5:30-8:30 p.m.; and September 6, from 8:30-11:30 a.m. The Community Show opens to the public at 5:30 p.m., with opening ceremonies at 6:30 p.m. and the Baked Goods Auction at 7:30 p.m. Let the baking begin! View the advertisement on page 29.