We published a post about Making Money with Your Recipes that provided hints on how to enter recipe contests. Here is a list of recipe contests with deadline in August that you might want to consider entering.
Taste of Home Cookout, Grill & BBQ Recipe Contest 
Grab the tongs and pull out your juiciest recipes. Go for the grill marks on veggies, fruit and buttery pound cake. And hey, Texas, Carolina, Memphis and KC, time to stake your claim to the mightiest ‘cue in the land. If you’ve got a sizzlin’ recipe with 12 ingredients tops, pass it this way. You could win cash and the spotlight in an upcoming issue of Taste of Home.
One Grand Prize winner will be awarded $500.00; One winner each for first place $250.00; second place $150.00; third place winner $75.00.
Deadline: August 5, 2016
Prize: One Grand Prize winner will be awarded $500.00; One winner each for first place $250.00; second place $150.00; third place winner $75.00.
Maple Leaf Farms 2016 ‘Strut Your Duck’ Recipe Contest 
They are looking for creative, original recipes using Maple Leaf Farms duck products.
Deadline: August 31, 2016
Prize: One Grand Prize Winner will be awarded $5,000.00 and free Maple Leaf Farms duck products for a year. One First Place Runner-Up Winner will be awarded $2,500.00. One Second Place Runner-Up Winner will be awarded $1,000.00. One People’s Choice Award Winner for favorite duck dish will be awarded $250.00.
“Mionetto Cocktail Challenge” presented by Food & Wine
Submit your cocktail recipe by selecting the type of prosecco to be used and providing your original recipe for your cocktail.
Deadline: August 31, 2016
Prize: One Consumer Grand Prize includes trip for winner and one guest to Italy.
One Bartender Grand Prize includes a feature in Food & Wine Magazine for the Bartender Grand Prize winner.
The three Consumer Finalists and three Bartender Finalists will attend the Finalist Challenge at the FOOD & WINE Test Kitchen in New York City to compete in a live cocktail challenge.
Bill Rice is Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories.