The 37 blokes who cooked cinnamon tea cakes on Wednesday night will help boost total entries in the 146th Regional Australia Bank Dubbo Show.
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Entries in the 2019 show will be counted early next week.
They were still coming in on the eve of the three-day show, running until 5pm Sunday.
"If we get over 5000 entries we will be doing well," said show secretary Sue Hood this week.
The cinnamon tea cake recipe was in the schedule for men wanting to tackle the show's first-ever Men's Cake Challenge.
The response to the challenge adds another layer to the cookery section.
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Chief steward Belinda Edmondson is surprised and thrilled.
"This year we decided to introduce the Men's Cake Challenge to involve men," she said.
"It's predominately been the women and we are lucky enough to have received 37 entries."
Bradley O'Leary, of Elong Elong, was one of the blokes to take up the challenge.
If we get over 5000 entries we will be doing well.
- 146th Regional Australia Bank Dubbo Show secretary Sue Hood
"When we were eight, nine, 10 years old, mum made us enter the cookery section," he said.
"Now older and in the workforce, I thought I'd get back into it and start with the cookery section first.
"It's a great show and we want to support it."
The chief steward said on average the cookery section accepted about 300 adult entries each year.
The judges were to "taste every single cake" on Thursday including the 37 cinnamon tea cakes placed in a display cabinet in a pavilion at the showground.
Cookery is among about 40 sections in the schedule.
They range from beef cattle, merino sheep and yard dog trials to flowers, photography and a ute competition.
Mrs Hood said the drought did not appear to be dramatically impacting livestock entries.
"Look at the prime lambs which has record entries," she said.
Mrs Hood said the show was attracting competitors from across NSW as well as Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.
Judges were coming from as far away as New Zealand, she said.
The show's grand parade from 2.30pm on Saturday will be followed by its official opening by James Cleaver who received the Royal Agricultural Society Rural Achiever award at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.
