Cake & Choir Fest

Cake & Choir Fest: A Spring Fundraiser for the Southern Oregon Guild
Featuring the IV Community Choir, Great IV Cake Derby, & Silent Auction

Saturday March 1, 2025 from 12pm-3pm at the Guild Gallery in Kerby, OR
To Enter the Cake Derby: CLICK HERE to fill out an online application

The Southern Oregon Guild invites you to join us at our NEW spring fundraiser event, Cake and Choir Fest, on Saturday March 1, 2025 from 12-3pm. Event attendees will enjoy a delicious performance featuring sweet harmonies by the Illinois Valley Community Choir directed by Kate Campbell along with a chance to bid in our silent auction featuring cakes entered in our Great Illinois Valley Cake Derby! Event entry is $10-$15 sliding scale at the door and includes choir performances, a selection of charcuterie appetizers, and 1 glass of wine. All event proceeds benefit the Guild's art programs and operations.

Cake & Choir Fest Schedule:
11:30-12:00pm - Cake Drop-Off
12:30pm - Doors Open to Public & Judging Begins
1:00 - 1:30pm - Music Set #1 by IV Community Choir
1:30 - 1:40pm - 10 minute intermission
1:40 - 2:00pm - Music Set #2 by IV Community Choir
2:00pm - Cake Awards are announced by judges
2:30pm - Auction Closes-Winning Bidders & OSF Raffle Winner announced

CALLING ALL BAKERS to enter our Great Illinois Valley Cake Derby 2025! Donate a cake, compete for ribbons, prizes, and bragging rights, and help raise funds for the Southern Oregon Guild. All bakers are eligible, even professionals, but cakes must be made in home kitchens, not commercial bakeries. Cakes must be entered under the baker’s name and bakers must follow OHA food handler guidelines.

Competitors can win awards in one of four categories – layer or bundt cake, sheet cake, cheesecake, and art cake. You can also enter the same cake in layer, sheet, or cheesecake as well as art cake.  All cakes will be judged first on quality of the cake itself so that, in the first three categories, an especially delicious cake can win a ribbon with a simple presentation. The art cake category will call for creativity in presentation as it will be judged both on the quality of the cake and on uniquely original visual presentation. Artistic presentations can be beautiful, humorous, suggest a theme or holiday, or make a statement. Creativity will be the judges’ guide!

Judges will be gourmet cook, Donna Parrish, master baker, Kate Dwyer, and Rene Eichmann of Bridgeview Winery. The three judges will need cake samples to taste. Three samples might be in the form of cupcakes or slices of a second cake that you make to keep at home. First, second, and third place ribbons will be awarded in all four categories. Following the horse race theme, a Grand Champion and a Reserve Grand Champion will be selected from among the top winners of all categories.

To enter the Great Illinois Valley Cake Derby 2025,  complete the online application form LINKED HERE or pick up an application in Kerby at the Guild Gallery, in Cave Junction at Trillium Bakery, or in Grants Pass at The Kitchen Company. Paper forms can be returned to the Guild located at 24353 Redwood Hwy. Kerby, OR 97531 or mailed to PO Box 1596 Cave Junction, OR 97523 by FEBRUARY 21, 2025. For more cake derby information, call 541-592-5019.