Strawberry Pie Competition

Sunday, May 18th 2025

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 14th

Think you’ve got the berry best pie in town? Enter your sweetest creation in the Fayetteville Strawberry Festival Pie Contest.

Categories

Experienced Baker

- Experienced bakers would describe themselves as more than just Thanksgiving pie

bakers. These bakers may be professional bakers or chefs or a homebaker who really

knows their stuff and makes a MEAN pie. The pies entered by these bakers will be

elevated in technical skill and reflect years of experience.

Junior Baker

- Junior bakers would describe themselves as hobbyists or budding enthusiasts. They’re

learning the technical skills to make a really great pie. These bakers are

non-professionals who have less experience, but no less deserve the opportunity to

compete among their fellow similarly skilled pie makers

Kids Mud Pie Contest (up to age 12)

- Our youngest community members are invited to create a strawberry patch in the style of

a classic chocolate pudding mud pie. The patch must be made entirely of edible

products (no real mud or plastic please, friends) and should reflect the child’s effort

though we hope it will be a fun activity for parents to engage with as well.

Prizes

Best in Show

- Best across all categories, best taste, flavor combination, and presentation, who’s to say

it won’t go to a mud pie?

In Experienced and Junior Categories

Best Taste Award

★ Love at first bite, ranked 1 to 10. 1 being boiled feet in a rancid rat

reduction and 10 being ecstatic “light of love at last I found you” bliss

Wombo Combo Award

★ Best combination of flavors, use of ingredients to compliment one another.

1 to 10. Judges should evaluate how the various ingredients present

themselves and Compliment each other without flavors or aromas

overpowering or bruising each other. Lower scores in this category would

reflect flavors that are not distinct from one another or cause an

astringent, bitter, or otherwise unpleasant bite. Higher scores will reflect

flavors that bring out other flavors and aromas and are distinct and

pleasant.

Prettiest Pie Award

★ You can judge a book by its cover! High scores in this category will reflect

a cohesive design to the presentation of the pie and technical ability such

as the texture of the crust, whether or not the filling has boiled over and

other such aesthetic considerations. Lower scores will represent lesser

technical skill applied and less intentional fulfillment of the pie’s design.

High scores will reflect higher technical skill particularly in the texture of

the crust and over execution of the pies design.

Kids Mud Pie Contest

Muddiest Patch Award

★ This award goes to the strawberry patch with the most creepy, crawly,

slimy, bugs and worms. A real ecosystem of gummy bugs, mud, and dirt

Sour-est Patch Award

★ Our brave judges will adjudicate the most lip pursing, brow furrowing,

make-you-turn-inside-out sour patch

Pristine Patch Award

★ This award will go to our most fairy friendly and tidy patch