The Great Cincinnati Bake Off 2025

All-you-can-treat yourself sweet bites! Over 20 stations of desserts, cookies, pies, cakes, candy, and more! Don’t worry, we’ll have a few savory options, too. This is the perfect sweetheart date night or chance to grab your girlfriends for a night of indulgence.

VIP Tickets include: 

• 30-minutes early access at 5:30pm

• VIP Lounge at a bar inside overlooking Xavier basketball court

• 2 Complimentary drinks good for beer, wine, cocktails, mocktails, soda 

• The BonBonerie decorative box to place sweets in throughout the event.  

General admission Includes:

• Receive 1 drink ticket to use for wine, beer, soda, water.

• The BonBonerie decorative box to place sweets in throughout the event.

  **Additional drinks can be purchased at the cash bar.

What makes this event more fun? The competitions! For weeks the best bakeries and local professional and amateur chefs have been baking up their best dishes to compete to see who has the best dessert. Categories include:  

• Cake Decorating, amateur and professional 

• Pies, amateur and professional 

• Cookies + Brownies, amateur and professional 

• Bread – Artisan Bread Showdown, amateur and professional 

• Cheesecakes - amateur and professional 

In addition to the sweets, we have a wonderful non-profit partnership with the Incubator Kitchen Collective. Their team will be on-site for you to learn more about how they are investing in the Tri-state's small locally catering business. Plus, when you donate to their cause you’ll have the chance to win their fabulous raffle! 

Join us and your favorite local bakeries, support small local businesses from Rachel DesRochers’s Incubator Kitchen Collective, enjoy meeting the Xavier’s Musketeer Mascot, take a quick tour with students on the Cintas Center, find out who will win the coveted golden rolling pin awards announced by a local celeb and more at The Great Cincinnati Bake-Off.