Recipe contests reward you with big prizes for coming up with great new recipes. This cooking contest list is full of current recipe contests that you can enter to win today.
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1. Phyllo.com - Athens 1-2-3-4 Mini Fillo Shells Contest
Submit recipes using Fillo dough that fit with each month's theme and you could win $100 monthly prizes or a grand prize of $1,234 cash.Entry Frequency: Unlimited entry per person
End Date: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: US residents who are NOT food professionals, 18+
2. Bays English Muffins - Top This Pizza Challenge Recipe Contest
Submit your best idea for a pizza recipe that would taste great on top of a Bays English Muffin and you could win a trip for two to Italy worth $10,000 or other prizes in Bays' Top This Pizza Challenge Recipe ContestEntry Frequency: Unlimited entry per person, as long as each entry is unique
End Date: May 31, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. ET
Eligibility: Contiguous US (-HI, AK), above the age of majority
3. Foster Farms - Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest
Submit your best locally-sourced and regionally-inspired chicken recipe into Foster Farms's Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest and you could win cash prizes worth up to $10,000 and more.Entry Frequency: Unlimited entry per person
End Date: June 03, 2012
Eligibility: Open to residents of CA, OR, and WA, 18+
4. Maple Leaf Farms - 2012 Discover Duck Chef Recipe Contest
If you are a professional chef, or if you're in training to become one, submit your favorite easy and unique duck recipe into Maple Leaf Farms' 2010 Discover Duck Chef Recipe Contest for your chance to win cash prizes worth between $1,500 and $5,000.Entry Frequency: Three entries per person
End Date: June 08, 2012
Eligibility: US residents who are professional chefs or who are currently enrolled in a culinary school, 18+
5. Nestle Kitchens - All Things Chocolate Recipe Contest
Submit your best chocolate recipe into Nestle Kitchens' All Things Chocolate Recipe Contest on Facebook and you could win $1,000 cash or one of two runners-up prizes of a Nestle gift basket.Entry Frequency: One time per person
End Date: June 08, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. PT
Eligibility: USA, 18+
6. Taste of Home - Instant Upgrade Dinner Recipe Contest
Share your best recipe that uses a shortcut to make it easier for busy cooks and you could win cash prizes in Taste of Home's Instant Upgrade: Dinner Recipe Contest.Entry Frequency: Unlimited entry per person, as long as each recipe is unique
End Date: June 15, 2012
Eligibility: Unspecified
7. Allens - Feast Your Veggies on This Recipe Contest
In celebration of Eat All Your Veggies Day, Allens has brought back the Feast Your Veggies on This Recipe Contest. Enter your recipe which uses Allens vegetables and Wholly Guacamole products for the chance to win free vegetables for a year and more.Entry Frequency: Unspecified
End Date: June 17, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. ET
Eligibility: Contiguous US (-HI, AK), 21+
8. Arnold and Oroweat Bread - Slice of Gold Contest
Submit a delicious, healthy recipe made on Arnold, Brownberry, or Oroweat breads or Sandwich Thins rolls and you could win a trip to go to a volleyball clinic in Los Angeles with Olympic Gold Medalist Misty May-Treanor from Arnold and Oroweat Bread's Slice of Gold Recipe Contest on Facebook.Entry Frequency: 1 x daily per person
End Date: July 02, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. ET
Eligibility: Contiguous US (-HI, AK), 18+
9. Johnsonville Sausage - No Ordinary Burger Contest
Submit your best burger recipe that uses Johnsonville products into the Johnsonville Sausage No Ordinary Burger Contest for your chance to win a trip to New York to compete in a cook-off for the grand prize of $10,000 cash.Entry Frequency: 1 x daily per person/email
End Date: July 03, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. CT
Eligibility: USA, above the age of majority
10. Reser's - America's Best Potato Salad Challenge Recipe Contest
Enter your most delicious potato salad into Reser's America's Best Potato Salad Challenge Recipe Contest and you could win one of five prizes of $1,000 and a $1,000 travel voucher to go to the World Food Championships in Las Vegas. The grand-prize is $10,000 cash.Entry Frequency: One time per person
End Date: July 31, 2012
Eligibility: USA, 21+
