The WA Country Women's Association has expressed disbelief at the decision by its Queensland counterparts to allow packet cake mixes in cooking contests.

It is the first time in 90 years that the venerable organisation will allow baking entrants to use a quick-fix mix.

While acknowledging it is a far cry from the tradition of making cakes from scratch, CWA spokeswoman Alison Taylor says it will make the competition more accessible.

"But there is a talent to making packet cakes, it's not as easy as sounds," she said.

"People who do cooking at home, who feel perhaps they can't compete with some of the older CWA bakers who have been cooking for years, it just opens the competition up."

Geraldton CWA member Heather Allen says WA does not have state-wide cooking competitions like those in other states.

However, she says it is sad that entrants can now resort to supermarket cake mix.

"I just think it's pretty sad that they're not going to nurture the young ones and teach them how to make the cakes," she said.

"I was talking to our state president and she said to me: 'Well, if they're going to go to packet cakes, why don't they just go and buy a cake ready made from the supermarket?'."