Ube Dessert Competition
Attention all home bakers! Enter your interpretation of the best use of ube in a dessert. This competition is open to anyone. Complete contest rules are shown below.
Reasons to enter
Honor - You have been raving about your mama’s ube recipe for years. It’s time to share your family’s creation with others.
Personal development - Competition is a great way to enhance your baking skills, build confidence and promote creativity
Help a charitable cause - The Ube Dessert competition is part of the Adobo Throwdown Cooking Competition and Food Expo, with all of the proceeds going to the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce - Central Texas Region Humanitarian Projects
Help promote Filipino cuisine - Your entry will be promoted heavily on all of our social media channels to bring awareness of Filipino cuisine to others
Try something new - Never made ube before? No problem! There are a lot of YouTube videos and Amazon cookbooks to guide you. And remember - you don’t have to be Filipino to enter!
Win - Bragging rights are forever. And check out the cash prizes below -
Prizes:
1st place - $250 + trophy
2nd place - $150 + trophy
3rd place - $75 + trophy
Preparing for the contest
Advance registration is required. Click here to register.
Each entry will cost a $20 registration fee. Registration is non-refundable and non-transferable. The entry fee will include one (1) 2-day pass to the event. You can also purchase additional event tickets for family members at 20% off.
Two weeks before the event, you will be assigned your turn-in time.
Preparing your Ube dessert entry
You will be preparing your dessert off-site.
Each entry must have enough for 12 (twelve) 3-ounce servings. You are more than welcome to include more.
You must turn in your entry in a disposable cake container. You will not get the container back.
Turning in your Ube dessert entry
During the day of the competition, please turn in your entry no more than 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after turn-in time on August 10, 2024, at the Schertz Civic Center - 1400 Schertz Parkway, Schertz TX 78154. Your turn-in time will be on August 10, 2024, sometime from 2:30 pm-3:30 pm.
Please follow the signs pointing to Competitor Registration
The Competitor Registration will check you in.
We will then attach a ticket number to your entry and it will be taken to the judges for tasting.
We would love to take a picture of you and your entry for social media, but this is optional and you can decline.
Judging
All dessert entries will be blind-judged by a selected panel
Dessert judging will be based on 3 criteria
Taste - 50%
Appearance- 25%
Originality - 25%