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 in the Baked Products Department!
On our website, thurmontEmmitsburgCommunityShow.com, exhibitor entry information and premium list for all departments with their classes is available. Dept. 9–Baked Products is the department where all ages—adults, youth (ages 11-18), and junior (ages 10 & under)—enter their baked items, with classes for bread, cakes, pies, sugar free, gluten free, cookies, candy, cupcakes, etc.
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 two-cake layers and freeze them. Closer to the Community Show entry dates of Thursday and Friday, September 10 & 11, these baked good exhibitors thaw their cake layers, icing their two-layer cake 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 11 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 purchases by cash or check only.
In the Adult Baked Goods Dept., for ages 19 & 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; Decorated Cakes—the benefiting organization is the Exhibitor’s Choice.
In the Youth Dept., for 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., for 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, and bread classes in the Baked Products Dept. are: 1st Place—$15.00, 2nd Place—$13.00, and 3rd Place—$11.00. Candy, cookies, miscellaneous, sugar free, and gluten free (in the adult department) are: 1st Place—$6.00, 2nd Place—$5.00, and 3rd place—$4.00.
At the Community Show, due to lack of refrigeration, the following baked items are not accepted: meringue or custard pies, cheesecakes, cream cheese icings or fillings. Baked entries 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 school 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. Community Show Eligible Exhibitors are residents of Catoctin area feeder schools: Emmitsburg Elementary, Thurmont Primary, Thurmont Elementary, Thurmont Middle, Lewistown Elementary, Mother Seton School, Catoctin High School, and Home-Schooled students. Sabillasville Environmental School (SES) students need to be a resident of the Catoctin area feeder schools listed or be a SES’s Youth Agriculture Club member.
The premium books will be located at Jubilee Foods and Dollar General in Emmitsburg and at Weis Market and Dollar General in Thurmont around the first part of August.
All baked good items for all ages are entered at Dept. 9–Baked Products. Entry of exhibits in the gymnasium and agriculture department is Thursday evening, September 10, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., and Friday, September 11, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The Community Show opens to the public on Friday, September 11, at 5:30 p.m., with the Opening Ceremonies held at 6:30 p.m., including the annual patriotic Community Organizations Flag Ceremony. The Baked Goods Auction starts at 7:30 p.m., with all of the Grand Champions and Reserve Champions being sold at 8:00 p.m.
The annual Community Show Baked Goods Auction is the largest annual fundraiser of the Community Show. Let the baking begin!
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