How’s your whoopie pie recipe? Pretty solid? Then read on. (If you don’t have any idea WTF a whoopie pie is, skip to the bottom of this post.)

On July 21 at 11am, Oddfellows Cafe will host a whoopie pie bakeoff. Professional and amateur bakers will submit their cakeburgers to a panel of judges.

Judges include Molly Moon Neitzel, owner of Molly Moon’s Ice Cream, and Christopher Frizzelle of the Stranger. Categories include best traditional, most original, and crowd favorite.

Event organizer Tallulah Anderson wasn’t ready to reveal which pro bakers are competing in the contest, so I can’t tell you whom, exactly, you’ll be baking against. But if you want to enter anyway you should email her at [email protected]. There are 10 spaces left.

Anyone’s welcome to stop by the cafe to sample the whoopies, vote for crowd favorite, and watch the judging.

A whoopie pie is basically a patty of frosting sandwiched between two round pieces of cake, traditionally chocolate or devil’s food. This from Wikipedia: “According to food historians, Amish women would bake these (known as hucklebucks at the time) and put them in farmers’ lunchboxes. When farmers would find these treats in their lunch, they would shout "Whoopie!” As a native of Pennsylvania Dutch Country (a hotzone of whoopie pie activity on the East Coast), I’m inclined to think this claim comes less from “history” and more from the marketers employed by the Ye Olde General Store tourist traps that line the highways of my hometown.