Cupcakes & Shopping at the Fancy Flea

The semi-annual home & garden flea market, voted one of the Top 10 in the country, returns this weekend! Browse through all of the shabby chic decor, antiques, vintage clothing & jewelry, repurposed finds, art, cottage glam and homemade sweets that the Fancy Flea Vintage Home and Garden Market has to offer Saturday from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Downtown Lakeland shoppers will be greeted by over 200 vendors lining Kentucky Avenue at this one-day event.

See photos from the last Fancy Flea event held in April in our past blog,  Saturday at the Fancy Flea.

Cupcake Contest

New to the event this month is the 1st Annual Fancy Flea Cupcake Contest presented by Today & Tonight Magazine. Cupcake contestants will bring 12 presentable cupcakes to submit for judging, and judges will then determine the winner based on criteria including: icing/frosting, flavor and texture and presentation/creativity.

Contestants are also asked to bring additional cupcakes to share with the public, and the more cupcakes they bring, the better because a ”People’s Choice Award” will be presented after the official judging. The more people that a participant gets to taste their entry, the better chance they have of walking away with the trophy.  The audience will be allowed to taste the entries on a first come, first serve basis.

The Grand Prize winner of the overall competition will not only receiving bragging rights and the cupcake trophy, but will also enjoy “fame and fortune as a true baking diva” with special coverage in Today & Tonight Magazine.

The Cupcake Contest will take place Saturday, November 3 between 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. There is a $10 fee for participants to register.  The audience is free to watch.