Calling All Bakers! (And Chefs)! 

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Join in the Fun at the 13th Annual Ocracoke Fig Festival

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Cakes are due at the Berkley Barn by 1:30 PM on Saturday. August 8, 2026. Present your cake to

the Fig Festival merch booth. Judging begins at 2 PM. All cakes will be served to festival 

attendees after the winners are announced (we call that that the Fig-For-All). 

 

FOUR Award Categories:

 

• Traditional Ocracoke Fig Cake Recipe (recipe posted below)

Traditional ingredients are limited to flour, sugar, oil/butter/margarine, eggs,

pecans/walnuts, fig preserves, milk/buttermilk, vanilla, and salt/spices.

A sugar glaze or buttermilk frosting is also acceptable.

 

• Innovative Dessert (Anything goes, as long as it's sweet and figgy!)

   

• Fig Kids (Anything goes, as long as it's figgy – and the cook is 16 or under!)

 

• 2026 Special Category: Savory Figs! (Anything goes, as long as it's NOT a dessert!)

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Enter in one or all categories; cakes are judged on Presentation, Traditional/Innovative Flavors, and Figginess. 

No need to sign up ahead of time! Deliver your uncut Fig Cake entry to the Berkley Barn before 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 2nd. Fig Festival volunteers will get your information and assign a number to your cake for the blind judging. If you’d like to share your recipe, please bring a copy.

 

All Bake-Off entries become the property of Ocracoke Fig Festival and will be served to Festival attendees after the judging. The audience is welcome to join in the Fig-For-All (the eating of the entries) after the Bake-Off is over. 

 

For 2026, our special guest if Chef Jamie Davis from Washington, NC. Chef Jamie will judge the Savory Figscategory and join Ocracoke residents in judging the Traditional, Innovative, and Kids entries.