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Candy, savory, and stuffed beignets at Beignet Fest in Metropolis Park


NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — When you love beignets and wish to strive quite a lot of them, then Beignet Fest is the right occasion for you.

Beignet Fest is holding its seventh annual celebration this yr, and there will probably be over 30 distributors promoting quite a lot of beignets, together with candy, savory, stuffed and coated beignets.

At Cafe Beignet, they’re getting ready to participate on this yr’s Beignet Fest. For the previous two years, their conventional beignet gained “Finest Conventional Beignet” on the fashionable fest.

“Sometimes we promote over 1,000 beignets at Beignet Fest,” Kevin Clark, gross sales supervisor at Cafe Beignet stated.

Clark went on to say, “We have been prepping for 2 days to ensure we’ve sufficient dough. We undergo 100 kilos of dough every day at every location.”

At this yr’s Beignet Fest, Cafe Beignet will probably be promoting their seasonal beignet, pecan praline beignets and their conventional beignet.

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Amy Collins, co-founder of Beignet Fest stated, “We’re tremendous excited as a result of this yr our competition will probably be in November as an alternative of September, so it will be cooler.”

At this yr’s competition there will probably be over 35 totally different sorts of beignets, and over 80 menu objects together with gumbo, jambalaya, scorching canine and hamburgers.

Beignet Fest may even embrace a Child’s Village and an incredible music line-up, together with Amanda Shaw and the Cute Guys, Creativeness Movers, Large Sam’s Funky Nation, Sierra Inexperienced and the Giants and Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gents.

All this sweetness is for a candy trigger.

“The factor about Beignet Fest is it provides us a platform to speak about youngsters and people on autism spectrum and lift cash for native applications that serves them,” Collins stated.

Beignet Fest is ready for Saturday Nov. 16, at Metropolis Park, close to the Christian Brothers Faculty, from 10 a.m. to six p.m.

For ticket data, click on right here.

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