AKT Foundation Presents
The Soup Cook Off
October 18, 2026 | Harrisburg

Sample, Savor, Vote

Welcome to The Soup Cook Off!

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Proceeds From The Event Benefit

AKT Foundation

The AKT Foundation, a 501c(3) nonprofit, is dedicated to providing essential household necessities to families in extreme poverty and those impacted by domestic violence.

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Soup Tasting Festival

The Soup Cook Off is a soup tasting event. Your purchased ticket gets you access to the event where over 20 chefs both professional and amateur prepare their best soup for you to taste, and vote on.

If you’ve never been to a soup cook off, you’re missing out! Let us walk you through a typical event, as you’ll experience it. You will get a spoon, voting card and a brochure at the registration table. Keep your spoon. Then, you’ll enter the ballroom and there will be chef tables lining the entire room. Our chefs serve up their best soup, chili, chowder, bisque or stew.

Get Inspired

It’s not just soup: It’s an experience! Taste a variety of soups prepared by Professional and Amateur chefs.

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Compete As A Chef

Do You Like
To Cook?

Show off your culinary skills and compete against other chefs to see if you can win the Soup Cook Off Trophy. We have three divsions of chefs- Professional, Amateur and Junior division.

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Discover The Soup Cook Off

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The Essence Of The Soup Cook Off

1:30 min

Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup

5:52 min

Soup Cook Off Promotional Video

1:00 min

3 Ways To
Participate

Purchase Tickets

Love eating soup? Purchase Tickets And Come Enjoy The Event!

Become A Chef

Are You A Chef? Make Your Best Soup And Enter In The Competition!

Sponsor Event

Have A Product Or Service To Sell? We Have Vendor And Sponsorship Opportunties Available!

Don’t Take Our Word
Read The Reviews

Melinda G

I absolutely love the soup cookoff! Relaxing and fun, all in one! Amazing soups and vendors! I love offering tarot card readings at this event!!! Can’t wait until the next one!!!

Tania S

I went to the Soup Cook-off to celebrate their 10 years and wow what a crowd. The event was filled with a ton of people and a great variety of soups. Some I have never tried before. There was a fun silent auction including a cake in the shape of a soup bowl and some vendors in the back. Great job to the organizers for a successful event and helping our communities homeless and poor..

Kim I

The 10th Annual Soup Cook Off was awesome!!! The attendance was in incredible!! Maddie and Sami passed out over 900 samples each!! Thank you so much for adding the Junior Division! What a great experience for the kiddos! It was so fun and such a great experience for them to pick their soup, work on and tweak their recipe/taste/flavors and then to present the soup/samples and get reactions from those taste testing!

Doug K

“Wow. Great event this year. The amount of people that came out to support this charity was awesome. I never expected to see that big of a crowd. The organizers did a fantastic job and all the soups were delicious. Kudos to all the chefs both amateur and professional. I will be happy to attend every one of these events and I will bring crowds with me. Thank you for devoting your time to charity. God bless!!!”.

Kathy N

“Amazing!!!! The food, the people,the fun, the atmosphere, and all for a great cause!”

Donna G

“The soup was amazing. The people were friendly! The soup cook off did an amazing job!”

Mark S

“The soup cook-off is a wonderful event. Every year we grow bigger and bigger. Not only is it great fun for the entire family, but we continue to raise more and more money for charities.”

Jodi P

“HAD THE BEST TIME AS ALWAYS!!!! Such hard work . Everyone did such a great job how do you choose! Look forward to the bake off in December and next years cook off. GREAT DAY!!!”