Chocolate cake, pecan ice box cookies, deep dish brownies, coconut bars, apple streusel, red velvet layer bars, and yeast breads were just a few of the goodies for sale at the 110th annual Inter-State Fair’s bake sale on Monday, August 13.
One hundred-four items were up for auction in three classes: 4-H, open class and educational.
Olivia Saucedo’s rooster cake brought $80 and was purchased by Coffeyville Feed and Farm Supply.
The twelve-year-old is no stranger to baking: in addition to her rooster cake, she entered banana bread, Swiss onion bread, and chocolate meringue cookies at the fair.
Saucedo, Cherryvale, likes to bake but especially likes to decorate cakes. Her rooster cake had candies such Sprees, Runts and circus peanuts as part of the decoration, and the rooster had a frosted yellow beak, brown body and orange head.
She also had arts and crafts projects entered in Coffeyville: a fairy garden, dream catcher, and stained glass, and at the Cherryvale Youth Fair last month, she showed meat and dairy goats and bucket calves.
As for the money she earned by auctioning off her cake, it will go towards expenses for her livestock. She also has her eye on a baby llama she saw, but she’s going to have to work on getting her mother convinced. Her mother’s response when Saucedo asked if she could get the llama was “she would have to think about it.”
Saucedo is the daughter of Carrie Cascarano and Howard House.
For another youth, baking is just one of his many interests.
Cord Dodson is skilled in working with yeast and made a maple tea ring that was auctioned off to Chuck and Linda McFate for $200.
Dodson, of Liberty, Kan., has baked since he was young but a 4-H class in making tea rings six years ago piqued his interest.
A lady in Thayer, Kan., who makes 150 tea rings a year for benefits, charities and fundraisers, taught his family, along with the class, how to make the tea rings, and gave Dodson advice as well. He also makes yeast rolls and bread. “I prefer to stick with yeast (items),” he said. “I like breads that rise.”
Dodson, who is sixteen years old, described his maple tea ring as a “giant pull-apart cinnamon roll with three layers: dough, filling, icing and nuts on top.”
As a junior at Cherryvale High School this fall, Dodson will play football and wrestle. He is president of his school’s FFA chapter and has a 4.0 grade point average. After high school, he’d like to attend college in Texas and compete on the meats judging team.
The maple tea ring was Dodson’s only entry in the baked goods, but hehas a steer, two sheep and a pig to show during the livestock shows. But there’s plenty of time for fun. He’ll “run around” with friends at the fair. “That’s the best part, meeting new friends and getting to see friends from other schools that you don’t get to see all year.”
He is the son of Jeremy and Cheri Dodson.
The auctioneers for this year’s bake sale were Marty Hill and Dale Baker. Superintendent was Janet Sandusky.
