Sunrise Flour Mill invites you to be part of the second annual Jack-O’-Loaf Halloween Heritage Bread Contest. The winner of the contest will receive free Heritage Bread Blend Flour for a year.
At Sunrise Flour Mill, we consider baking as a pure act of creativity, taking humble ingredients and transforming them into something extraordinary—or in this case, frighteningly fun.
This spooky season, we encourage you to bake a loaf of bread, use your imagination to transform it into a spooky decorative piece, and send it to us for judging.
There are only two rules: your creepy creation must be bread, and all the bewitching decorations must be edible. (Non-edible decorations like candles, lights, or props can be used only for presentation but should not dominate the design.)
Other than that, we want you to express your ghoulish creativity however you choose. You can bake a baguette monster with handmade pasta hair or a sandwich loaf centipede with 100 candy legs, or you can bake a braided bread loaf that looks like an embalmed mummy or a sourdough bread bowl filled with witches brew—we cannot wait to see what kind of haunting heritage loaf you come up with!
The Jack-O’-Loaf Halloween Heritage Bread Contest starts today, and submissions will remain open through Tuesday, October 27. The winner of the contest will be announced on Halloween, October 31, along with two runners-up who will each receive a $100 gift card to Sunrise Flour Mill.
Email at least two (2) photos of your Jack-O’-Loaf bread, along with a short description about your creation, to jackoloaf@sunriseflourmill.com before midnight on Tuesday, October 27.
Don’t carve pumpkins this Halloween. Instead, bake with Sunrise Flour Mill, have a scary good time turning your bread into devilishly delicious decoration, and enter to win free Heritage Bread Blend Flour for a year.
Below are Last Years Winners!
1st Place
Notes: "Sourdough bread baked in a bundt pan. Served with spinach dip. Painted with food coloring and decorated with poppy seeds, fennel seeds, and chili seeds for the eyes. Dill on the captured fly that has potato chip wings. Spiderweb made from string cheese."
Meet the runner-ups
Notes: "I made gingerbread, sugar cookies, boney breadsticks, and the Jack-O-Loaf — all using the Heritage White Flour. The Jack will get cut and filled with sauce to dip the bones."
Notes: "The bread is made with beet juice in the dough and covered with black cocoa powder. The eyes are sugar, and the fangs are almond slices."
Check out all the amazing entries from last year below!
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A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. Eligibility
The Jack-O’-Loaf Halloween Heritage Bread Contest (the “Contest”) is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees, officers, and directors of Sunrise Flour Mill, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and their immediate family members (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) and/or those living in the same household are not eligible. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited.
2. Sponsor
The Contest is sponsored by Sunrise Flour Mill, www.sunriseflourmill.com (“Sponsor”).
3. Contest Period
The Contest begins on October 1, 2026 at 12:00 a.m. Central Time and ends on October 27, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time (“Contest Period”). Entries submitted before or after the Contest Period will not be eligible.
4. How to Enter
To enter, bake a loaf of bread, decorate it in a Halloween or spooky theme using edible decorations, and submit at least two (2) photos of your creation along with a short written description to jackoloaf@sunriseflourmill.com during the Contest Period. Limit one (1) entry per person. Entries that do not comply with these Official Rules or that are incomplete, illegible, or inappropriate may be disqualified at Sponsor’s sole discretion.
5. Entry Requirements
Bread must be homemade.
Decorations must be edible.
Photos and description must be the entrant's original work.
By entering, you represent and warrant that your submission does not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.
Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry deemed offensive, obscene, or inconsistent with the spirit of the Contest.
6. Judging and Winner Selection
All eligible entries will be judged by a panel selected by Sponsor based on creativity, originality, and overall execution. The decisions of the judges are final and binding. One (1) Grand Prize Winner and two (2) Runners-Up will be selected. Winners will be notified via email on or about October 31, 2026.
7. Prizes
Grand Prize (1): One (1) year of free flour, fulfilled as a free monthly subscription of one (1) 5-pound bag of Sunrise Flour Mill Heritage Bread Blend, beginning November 2026 and ending November 2027. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $240.
Runner-Up Prizes (2): Each runner-up will receive one (1) $100 Sunrise Flour Mill gift card. ARV: $100 each.
Total ARV of all prizes: $440.
Prizes are non-transferable, non-exchangeable, and may not be redeemed for cash. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the stated prize is unavailable.
8. Winner Notification
Winners will be contacted by email using the information provided at entry. If a potential winner cannot be contacted within five (5) days, fails to comply with these Official Rules, or declines the prize, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner.
9. Publicity & Rights Granted
By entering, participants grant Sponsor a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, and display their entries (including photos, descriptions, and likeness) for promotional purposes in any media without further compensation or approval.
10. General Conditions
Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Contest if fraud, technical failures, or any other factor impairs the integrity of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, or misdirected entries, or for any technical or human error that may occur in the administration of the Contest.
11. Release and Limitations of Liability
By participating, entrants agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the Contest or receipt or use of any prize. Sponsor makes no representation or warranty of any kind regarding the prize.
12. Privacy
Information collected from entrants will be used in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, available at https://www.sunriseflourmill.com/pages/privacy-policy.
13. Disputes
Except where prohibited, entrants agree that all disputes shall be resolved individually, without resort to class action, exclusively by the appropriate court located in Minnesota, and governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota.
