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2025 Flavour Forecast recipe challenge

This year’s Flavour Forecast® recipe challenge, designed for Year 9 and Year 10 students, encourages them to respond to a design brief and create two original recipes that reflect the flavour trends for the year.

All students who enter will receive a certificate, regardless of whether their entry is complete.

About 2025 flavour trends

The three flavour trends identified in the Flavour Forecast 25th Edition are:

  • Tropical Vibes
  • Charred & Smoked
  • Deliciously Unexpected

These trends are detailed in McCormick's 2025 Flavour Forecast.

Design brief

  • 2025 recipe challenge design brief [coming in April 2025]

Entry form

  • 2025 entry form [coming in April 2025]

Resources to support the recipe challenge

[Videos to come]

  • Discretionary choices
  • Handy recipes [coming in April 2025]
  • Justification tips [coming in April 2025]
  • Photography tips
  • Recipe challenge costings
  • Terms and conditions [coming in April 2025]
  • Trend 1 handy hints [coming in April 2025]
  • Trend 2 handy hints [coming in April 2025]
  • Trend 3 handy hints [coming in April 2025]

Past winners of the Flavour Forecast recipe challenge

Many schools across Australia from all states and territories have participated in the recipe competition. Explore past winners and the fantastic, creative, original recipes they created. Further details about past winners are coming soon.