Are you one of those cooks who love to be in the kitchen impressing your friends with your culinary creations?  Then you need to enter an original oatmeal recipe into Bertram’s Oatmeal Festival Cook-Off, sponsored by 3-Minute Brand Oats. 

Contestants can enter their oatmeal Cook-Off dishes in seven categories:  breads, cakes, pies, cookies, bars, snack mix and low fat/low cholesterol.  Each category will have two divisions:  junior (age 18 and under) and adult (age 18 and over).  All are encouraged to enter their favorite oatmeal recipes in several of these categories. 

Entries will be accepted on from 9:03 a.m. to 11:33 a.m at the Lewis Building located in downtown Bertram at 107 Grange Ave., on the corner of Grange and Vaughan Street on Saturday of the festival.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the winners of each category in both divisions.  Also receiving money will be the grand champion in each division and the best Cook-Off recipe.  All cash awards are donated by the Ralston Corporation.

Contestants are encouraged to obtain further important information contained in Cook-Off brochures available at Bertram City Hall, Joann Cole Mitte Memorial Library, Farmers’ State Bank or any restaurants in Bertram.

Click here for more information and entry form and click here for last year's winners.  For more information contact cookoff@oatmealfestival.com.