Blue & Gold Banquet - Dad & Lad Bake-Off

Here are all the details for the Blue & Gold Banquet this month along with the Dad & Lad Bake-Off rules:

Date: Thursday, February 18

Time: 6:45 (Bring Cakes) 7-8:30pm (Banquet & Awards)

Where: Spreckels Gym

Theme: Boy Scouts of America 100th Birthday Party

Food/Service Items: Each den will provide their own potluck food, drinks, serving utensils and paper goods. Each den will need to bring one 6' or 8' table for your cakes. Your den leader will have all those details and assignments.

Dad/Lad Cakes: Be sure to place a card with your den number and Scout's name with each cake for the judging

Bake-Off Awards: A patch will be given to each Scout who brings a cake to enter into the Dad & Lad Bake-Off. Overall Pack awards will be for: Best BSA 100th Birthday Theme, Most Scoutly, Most Original. This year we will also award ribbons for 1/2/3 place for each den for best cake overall.

Dad & Lad Bake-Off Rules:

The purpose of the Dad & Lad Bake-Off is threefold: 1) To provide all Cub Scouts and their male Akelas (brothers, uncles, dads, grandpas, etc.) with an opportunity to wreak havoc in their kitchens. If a Cub Scout doesn't have a male Akela, he can use a female Akela to participate in this contest. 2) To share your delicious dessert with your den. 3) To get recognized for having tried your best to make a dessert that looks and tastes great!

RULES:

1) Only male cooks, advisers and clean-up crews are allowed to participate. No advice, instruction or help of any sort is allowed from females (unless their is no male Akela available).

2) Dessert & icing mixes are allowed; however, it has been past contestant's experience that the more from scratch you make it, the messier it gets. And the messier it gets, the more fun you'll have doing it!

3) ALL CAKES MUST HAVE A VISIBLE LABEL WITH THE DEN NUMBER, SCOUT NAME AND RANK.

Please contact your Den leader with any questions or concerns.