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).
Dessert Category
→Create an innovative dessert that uses edible flowers and Guatemalan products.
→Cold, hot or pastry desserts are accepted.
→Technique, creativity, flavor, texture and final presentation will be evaluated.
→Relate the dessert 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 dessert must contain at least 3 Guatemalan ingredients (they can be in the preparation or as decoration).
- It can be cold, hot, or a combination of temperatures.
- It must have a dough (of your choice) as a base; for example: shortcrust pastry for a fruit tart.
- It must have a filling (of your choice).
- It should have a crunchy topping.
- Serve with a sauce.
- Place a "surprise" ingredient in the preparation, one that is not easily visible.
- The use of artificial sweeteners (Splenda, Stevia, etc.) is not permitted.
- Cakes or cupcakes as such are NOT allowed in this category.
Each participant must present the judges with 3 identical desserts (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 dessert (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.
