Bacon. Music. Mission.
Join 2,000+ bacon lovers at Texas's largest cook-off for charity Join the SizzleLearn More2025 STATS
$1,000,000
Raised Since 2015
600 lbs
Pederson’s Farms Bacon
135
Volunteers
From Backyard Idea to Bacon Bash Texas
In 2012, a handful of friends met at the Horny Toad Bar & Grill in Cranfills Gap to celebrate two of their favorite things: bacon and community. The group realized their love for bacon could do good by helping kids with Type 1 Diabetes and keeping Texans warm through Niki Warms the Cold, founded in memory of Niki Carlson. More than a decade later, that small idea has become Texas’s biggest bacon festival with 30 cook-off teams, live music, cold beer, and over $1 million raised for families across the state.
Our Mission
Bacon Bash Texas exists to turn good times into good deeds — raising funds and awareness for children living with Type 1 Diabetes and for Texans in need of warmth and hope. Since 2015, we’ve raised over $1,000,000, funded 173 scholarships, and provided hundreds of coats, blankets, and CGM monitors to families across Texas.
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One small idea, done with heart, can change lives one slice at a time.
