If your sweet tooth is always on the lookout for new confections, check out the 3rd annual Butterfly Cupcake Challenge this coming Saturday at St. Albert Centre.
And it’s all in support of the International Children’s Festival springing up on May 28.
The Friends of International Children’s Festival have pulled together 15 teams from festival partners and sponsors. Each team is responsible for decorating four dozen cupcakes and selling them.
The frenzy begins at 11 a.m. in the mall down by The Bay. Each team has 30 minutes to create a super-duper fantastic design on six cupcakes that will be judged by MLA Steven Khan, Randall Fraser of the National Stiltwalkers of Canada and Lynda Moffatt from St. Albert Chamber of Commerce.
For the next hour until 12:30 p.m., the decorators are in charge of icing and pumping out cupcakes donated by Save-On Foods while sellers flog the mini-cakes throughout the mall.
“They can go up and down the mall and use bribery, swag, whatever to sell the cupcakes,” says festival senior marketing coordinator Troy Funk.
There is no set price for the sweets. It’s a donation only event.
Winners are determined by a point system. They will earn points for every dollar in donations as well as from the judges and public votes.
Battling teams gunning for the top include a City of St. Albert councillors’ team, a MuseĂ© Heritage, a Tim Hortons, ATB Financial and a CISN Country team.
St. Albert Children’s Theatre is launching a kids commando squad skirmishing with their equally competitive parents on a Friends of St. Albert Children’s Theatre team.
“It’s a fun event. It’s fun to see how creative people are and it’s a great opportunity to support the festival before it comes out on the festival site.”
