Get ready to satisfy your Sweet Tooth at the inaugural Sweet Treats Festival presented by Dayton Most Metro! Guests will have a chance to indulge in cupcakes, candies, and cookies on Sunday, January 27th. This epicurean adventure will showcase over 20 of the area’s top bakeries, chocolatiers, pastry artisans or home-based businesses known for creating decadent desserts. Attendees will be asked to help select Dayton’s Best Sweet Treat by voting for their favorite at the event. The line up for treats so far includes cookies, cupcakes, candies, truffles, whoopie pies, biscotti, chocolate dipped fruit, fudge, toffee, peanut brittle cake pops, brownies, baklava and so much more!

Whoopie Pies from Thistle Confections

Held at Commander Aero, located just south of Austin Road on St Rt 741 in Miamisburg, the event will run from 1 – 4pm. Tickets will be sold for $25 in advance, $30 at the door. There is even a special group ticket deal- buy a bakers dozen (13) for the cost of just 10 tickets ($250). Admission covers a taste from each vendor, a bottle of Aquafina water and insights and lessons from the vendors on the Kroger Demonstration Stage. Tim Horton’s will be on hand serving up coffee as well.

Sweet Treats was originally conceived as an opportunity to showcase the growing number of small independent cup cake shops that have popped up in the Miami Valley in the last couple of years. As Dayton Most Metro started researching possible participating bakeries, we were amazed that there were well over 50 locally owned shops in the area. We quickly reached and exceeded our goal to have 20 participating vendors and already have a waiting list and a number of entrepreneurs asking to be kept in the loop for next year. We’ve got bakers that will be offering up sugar free treats, gluten free goodies and even vegan sweets like the whoopie pies pictured to the right at Sweet Treats.

Cupcakes from Cake, Hope & Love

Sweet Treats is made possible with support from Tim Hortons and Austin Landing. Part of our mission in creating this festival is to give back to our community. As our first charity partner we’ve chosen A Kid Again.

Their mission is enrich the lives of children with life threatening illnesses and their families by providing healing times of respite through our fun-filled group activities and destination events, which we call adventures. They offer year round adventures that foster laughter, joy, normalcy and supportive networking opportunities. Their goal is to offer our children, siblings and parents a cost free occasion to enjoy quality time together and to create lasting memories. Representatives from A Kid Again will be on hand at the festival to share more about their program and ways you can help.

Tickets available online at www.SweetTreatsFestival.com and will be available at participating vendors by 1/12/13.

Moore Dessert Please award winning cupcakes as seen on the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars.

Can’t make the festival? Dayton Most Metro’s Food Adventure team, SuperFry and The Big Ragu will be on hand to taste on your behalf and will be sharing their votes for best Sweet Treats in a wrap-up article on the fest.

For those of you who are trying to keep that New Year’s get in shape resolution, but still want to support this event, you can make an online donation on the Sweet Treats website.

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