Calling All Bakers! (And Chefs)!
Join in the Fun at the 12th Annual Ocracoke Fig Festival
Cakes are due at the Berkley Barn by 1:30 PM on Saturday. August 2, 2025. 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:
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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.
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Innovative Dessert (Anything goes, as long as it's sweet and figgy!)
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Fig Kids (Anything goes, as long as it's figgy – and the cook is 16 or under!)
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2025 Special Category: Figs of the Sea! (Creative pairings of Ocracoke figs and Ocracoke seafood)
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 2025, our special guest if Chef Dean Neff from Wilmington, NC. Chef Dean will judge the Figs of the Sea category and join Ocracoke residents in judging the Traditional, Innovative, and Kids entries.
Enter the Ocracoke Fig Festival Bake-Off!




