Here are some cooking games you can try at your next girl’s night out or even a couple’s dinner so that you all get to eat homemade food while having fun at the same time.

Cooking in Reverse

This is a popular cooking game as instead of cooking something from a list of ingredients provided to you, you actually have to write down the ingredients from the dish served. You can obviously tell the main things like whether it is chicken with broccoli served with noodles.  But the sauces and seasonings used and how everything was put together can be a challenge. Depending on the skill and interest level of your friends, you can take it up a notch by even asking them to provide the quantity of the ingredients used and giving a prize to the person who ends up being closes to the original recipe.

Mixing Courses

Mixing courses is a fun cooking game because it lets you really think out of the box. It basically means finding innovative ways to serve breakfast staples at dinner and salads instead of dessert. How you whip up pancakes and waffles as a dinner entrée and how you can make your dessert the first thing on the table and a salad the last is up to you. That is what the cooking game is all about. It even gets people thinking of creative ways of incorporating cereal on pizza and orange juice with filet mignon.

Blind Tasting

This is a very old but still popular cooking game and is very simple. You basically blindfold the testers and ask them to guess what they are sampling. Always be sure of allergies anyone may have as you wouldn’t want to ruin your party with someone being rushed to the emergency room as they were allergic to strawberries, peanuts or shellfish. Also, some people may have religious or other dietary restriction such a being a vegetarian so always be sure you know your gests likes and preferences. You could add a fun twist to this by getting a blindfolded friend chew on a jalapeno or some other spicy thing and see him clench his teeth!

The possibilities are endless when you have fun food and friends in the equation. Have fun!

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Healthy Cooking Contests

Everybody knows that good health and healthy eating are interrelated, and healthy cooking contests encourage healthy eating. One example of this type of contest is the healthy college cookbook contest, where the winner gets their recipe published in a cookbook, gets a copy of the cookbook, and a $25 cash prize if the recipe is one of the top 25.

Another healthy cooking contest is the Get Fresh With North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Recipe Contest, which awards $500 prizes in each of four categories: soups, salads, sides, and sweets.

Dessert Cooking Contests

Who doesn’t love dessert? If you make a mean pecan pie, a creative coconut cake or a bodacious batch of cookies, a dessert contest is your chance to shine. Hershey’s Cocoa has sponsored a classic cake-baking contest for the last twenty years. Cakes and frosting must be made from scratch and must use Hershey’s cocoa. Cash prizes are offered for the winning entries, but the best prize is bragging rights for winning this prestigious competition. The Annual Sesame Street Cookie Baking Contest is another popular cooking contest. This one was featured in the 1979 Cookie Monster Storybook and, according to legend, the Cookie Monster is one of the judges of this fun cooking contest.

Vegetarian Cooking Contests

Want to win an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii? Of course you do; who wouldn’t? The Blossoming Lotus restaurant in Kauai hosts a contest called, “The Most Remarkable Vegan Recipe Contest In History.” The winner of this cooking contest, which requires entrants to use a recipe containing no animal products whatsoever, wins a one week trip for two to Hawaii, all expenses paid.

You can find contests to enter in magazines that specialize in food, menus, and recipes. Enter local contests first, to build your confidence. Local contests don’t attract nearly as many entrants as nationwide recipe contests. Once you have a few local contests under your belt, go ahead and start entering national contests.

Read food articles in magazines and newspapers to stay current on trends, and incorporate those trends into recipes you submit for contests. Examples of recipe contest trends are meals that can be prepared quickly, low-fat meals, and meals with trendy ingredients, like sundried tomatoes or figs.

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