Contest
“Cooking with Flowers”
Cooking with Flowers is a gastronomic competition that began within the framework of the Flower Festival in its 5th edition.
Antigua Guatemala boasts a wealth of culinary talent, and in 2025, the culinary celebration must continue. We invite various food businesses, hotels, food lovers, and pastry chefs to participate and have the opportunity to be recognized with this cultural initiative. "Cooking with Flowers" aims to provide a platform for each participant to showcase their dishes, beverages, and desserts, allowing us to explore local and regional culinary art through the lens of flowers.
Date
About the event
→Date: November 8, 2025
→Hours: 9 am to 4 pm
→Location: Finca Carmona Trails, KM 3.5 Carretera a Santa María de Jesús, San Juan del Obispo.
Showcase your creativity
→You must decorate your stand with flowers and include in your decoration items that represent this year's theme "Ancient City of Arts, where stars bloom, inspired by Artists who have broken the mold" (Cruz España, Fernando Botero, Carlos Mérida, Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh, Luis de Lion, etc).
→(In the judges' rubric, there will be a rating of the Stand) Size 2 m x 2 m, includes table (1.50 m in diameter), white tablecloth, over tablecloth umbrella (2.10 m in diameter) and two chairs.
General participation requirements:
→Each participant may register in only one category.
→Dishes and drinks must: Include edible flowers as a main or complementary ingredient | Incorporate at least one Guatemalan product (cocoa, corn, coffee, rum, local fruits, spices, herbs, etc.) | Be an original and creative proposal.
Participants must bring their own ingredients and utensils. The organizers will provide work tables and basic access to electricity and water.
→The maximum preparation/presentation time will be 60 minutes (except for mini cakes, which can be prepared in advance and only presented).
Mixology Category
→Prepare a drink with or without alcohol that incorporates edible flowers.
→At least one Guatemalan ingredient must be included (rum, coffee, cocoa, tropical fruits, local herbs).
→The taste, originality, harmony of ingredients, presentation and concept of the drink will be valued.
→Relate the cocktails directly to one or more details that involve the theme of this edition
- Two or more edible natural flowers (at least one of them inside the preparation, the other can be decorative).
- Each drink must contain at least 3 Guatemalan ingredients (they can be in the preparation or as decoration).
- The base of the drink is up to each participant's choice (it can be infusions, creams, milk, water, etc.)
- It must contain liquor (the amount and type of liquor to be used is at the choice and discretion of each participant).
- It can have temperature variations (ice, flames, etc.)
- Each drink must contain a small edible decoration or "garnish".
- Add art-inspired ingredients.
Each participant must present the judges with 3 identical drinks (2 that the judges will taste, and the third must remain as a presentation on the table for the guests to see the proposal) in addition to the small tasting portions.
You must send the description of your drink (what inspired you to create it) to the email cocinandoconflores@gmail.com, you have until November 1st to send it.
You must meet all the items mentioned in each category to be evaluated on the day of the competition.
