VERO BEACH — Guard your secret ingredients and get your mixers ready.
The Jeane Graves Charity Cupcake Challenge is a competitive bake off to raise money for charities, including The Michael J. Fox Foundation, and is looking for cupcake baking contestants.
This very sweet event will be held on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m. at The Heritage Center in downtown Vero Beach.
Bakers will compete in two divisions: Professional Baker or Restaurant and Individual Bakers.
The fee to enter is $10 for Individual Bakers and $20 for Professional Bakers or Restaurants.
Contestants are to bring 5 dozen cupcakes made with standard 2½” cupcake papers. All decorations must be edible. One dozen will be displayed; the rest of the cupcakes will be cut into bite sized pieces for tasting and voting by attendees.
Tickets to the Cupcake Challenge are $10 and can be purchased at the door. Ticket holders will have ten votes to use for their favorite cupcake, or can vote for several of the ones they like.
Cupcakes will be tasted by the ticket holders between 2 and 4 p.m. Audience votes will be counted after 4 p.m. The cupcakes with the most audience votes will move to the judges for awards.
Winners will be announced as the judges’ votes are tallied. Prizes will be given in each category for Best Taste, Best Decoration, and Best Cupcake in the category. One cupcake will be awarded Best Overall Cupcake 2013.
Cupcake bakers are asked to submit a brief (75 words or less) paragraph about themselves or their Bakery or Restaurant that can be used for publicity purposes before and after the Cupcake Challenge.
Entry forms are available on the Jeane Graves Charity Cupcake Challenge Facebook page, or interested bakers can call (772) 473 3410 to have an entry form emailed to them.
Any donations can be made out to The Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Deadline for completed entry form is Saturday, Sept. 28. The form, contestant information, and entry fee can be dropped off at Law office of Julia Graves, 2205 14th Ave. in Vero Beach, FL or mailed to Cupcake Challenge, Care of HGX, P O Box 6190, Vero Beach, FL 32961.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s Disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensure the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson’s.
Jeane Graves died in April of 2010 after suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. This event is put on by her daughters Janie Graves Hoover, Judy Graves, Jeane Graves Bartlett, and granddaughter Amelia Graves, with the help of family and friends.
Team Fox members raise funds for the foundation through local fundraisers and by participating in sporting events. For more information about Team Fox, please visit the website www.TeamFox.org.
Please contact Janie Graves Hoover at (772) 473-3410 or by email at Janietv@yahoo.com for more information.