The NBIA are the presenting sponsor of the Royal Adelaide Professional Baking Show. The show takes place as part of the Royal Adelaide Show.
The competition is open to all professional bakers, baking apprentices/trainees, and enrolled TAFE students. Competing in the Royal Adelaide Professional Baking Show provides and opportunity to promote your skills as a baker and your baking business to attendees of the Royal Adelaide Show.
The bread classes include unsliced white sandwich loaf, unsliced white hitop, light rye loaf, continental loaf, artisan style bread, baguette, and ciabatta. The savoury pastry classes include traditional meat pies, gourmet meat pies, standard pasties, and standard sausage rolls. The patisserie classes include decorated eclairs, individual decorated tart, and decorated round mud cake. The sweet goods classes include vanilla slice, yeast raised finger buns, and yeast raised chocolate donuts.
Other categories include the gluten free category where the product is not specified and the celebrity judge category where the entry is one sweet product and one savoury product. Apprentices who enter the apprentice category are required to produce and submit two half French sticks and four Danish pastries.
All exhibits will be judged by individuals from within the industry against several criteria as outlined in the Schedule.
The Competition Schedule is your source of all important information, so if you are new to the competition or have been involved before make sure you take the time to read through the schedule.
2024 competition details
DATES:
Registration is open from
10 May to 5 July 2024
Delivery 3 September 2024
from 7.00 am to 9.30 am
Judging 3 September 2024
from 10.00 am
previous years Results
2023 RAS Professional Baking Competition
2022
Highest Mark in Bread – Orange Spot Bakery
Highest Mark in Savoury Pastries – CJs Bakery
Highest Mark in Patisserie – Sucre Patisserie
Highest Mark in Sweet Goods – Orange Spot Bakery
Highest Mark in Best Bakery Lunch – CJs Bakery
Highest Mark in Apprentice Category – CJs Bakery
Apprentice Incentive Award – CJs Bakery
Champion Product of the show – Sky City Casino