Enter Your Pie or Cake in the Great American Bake Off This Weekend

Is your pie to die for? Do people quake for your cakes? If your treats are better than our rhyming abilities, enter them in the Great American Bake Off this Saturday, January 21, at the Boynton Beach Civic Center.The bake-off is part of Boynton Beach's second-annual Craft and Treasure Sale,...

By Laine Doss

January 19, 2012

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Is your pie to die for? Do people quake for your cakes? If your treats are better than our rhyming abilities, enter them in the Great American Bake Off this Saturday, January 21, at the Boynton Beach Civic Center.

The bake-off is part of Boynton Beach's second-annual Craft and Treasure Sale, which features crafts and jewelry vendors, pie giveaways, and free food samples courtesy of Publix. The sale runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and admission is free.

The bake-off is open to all individuals or teams 16 and older, with an entry fee of $5 per pie or cake. Each baked treat must be made from scratch and accompanied by a recipe on a 4x6 card (see entry form and complete rules here).

So if people goes nuts over your pecan pie or crazy over your coconut layer cake, this event is for you.

Boynton Beach Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach.

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Laine Doss is the food and spirits editor for Miami New Times, covering the restaurant and bar scene in South Florida. She has been featured on Cooking Channel’s Eat Street and Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race. Doss won an Alternative Weekly award for her feature on what it’s like to wait tables. In a previous life, she appeared off-Broadway and shook many a cocktail as a bartender at venues in South Florida and New York City. When she’s not writing, you can find Doss running some marathon then celebrating at the nearest watering hole.

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