LA Cookie Con and Sweets Show

LA Cookie Con and Sweets Show: the West Coast's biggest convention for bakers, pastry lovers, sweet tooths and food TV fans!

Fun for the Whole Family

From the littlest sous chefs to lifelong bakers, we have fun programming and delicious food for the whole family to enjoy. Your ticket includes:

• Hundreds of delicious free samples from national and local vendors, offering an extravaganza of cookies, candy, chocolate, coffee, ice cream, beverages and savories, too.
• Previews of the best new baking and cooking tools for amateurs through professionals.
• Classes, demonstrations and activities all day including fondant work, pastry decorating, baking, candy apple making, photo booth by The Social Booth Co and more.
• Packed celebrity guest lineup headlined by world-renowned cake artist Ron Ben-Israel, star of Food Network's hit show "Sweet Genius", plus popular contestants from Masterchef, Masterchef Junior, TLC's Cake Boss: Next Great Baker and Next Food Network Star.
• 1st Annual World Dessert Table Championships, Novelty Cake Contest and Charity Raffle to benefit Children's Hospital Los Angeles
• Kids Zone by Nestlé NESQUIK® with free face painting by LA Parent, crafts, snacks and games by Toddler Camp, fun with Club MomMe and mini-manicures by Kidlicks with their organic edible nail polish.
  1 free child age 12 or under per paying adult.
• VIP Lounge hosted by SunCafe Organic with exclusive bites, free massages by Massage Envy, sips by Stella Rosa and Harmata Family Wines Presented by AMLI Lex on Orange, celebrity meet and greets and swag

Meet Your Favorite Culinary Celebrities

Many of your favorite TV personalities will be on hand for free autograph signings and to judge our charity Baking Contests, including: Ron Ben-Israel, Masterchef Season 5's Ahran Cho and Daniel McGuffey, Masterchef Season 3's Monti Carlo, Masterchef Junior Season 1's Sarah Lane, Troy Glass and runner-up Dara the Bow Girl, Cake Boss: Next Great Baker's Greggy Soriano and Next Food Network Star's Stacey Poon-Kinney. Join them in helping us support Children's Hospital Los Angeles!

Thank You to Our Sponsors

This amazing event would not be possible without support from:

• Keurig - brewing free coffee fresh onsite with their new Keurig 2.0 brewer
• Amoretti - sampling amazing flavors for both professional and home kitchens
• Stivii - presenting their brand new line of stevia-sweetened dark chocolate
• Whole Foods Market - your source for the best baking supplies
• Nestlé NESQUIK® - presenting our fabulous Kids Zone for all to enjoy
• Jen & Joe's Cookie Dough - baking cookies live onsite
• Davidson's Safest Choice - gently pasteurized eggs so you can eat the dough
• Core Home - showcasing new Core Cookie Stamps for fun and sassy cookies
• Drop - iPad-connected kitchen scale to prevent baking fails
• Caljava/Fondx/Icing Genius - the best in baking decor and fondant

Professionals/Press: Discover New Favorites

Bloggers, vloggers, media, and press: Click Here to apply for press passes. Bloggers, please include links to your website and social media links with follower counts, plus an estimate of your monthly pageviews (if applicable). Note: our final round of blogger/vlogger press passes will be issued Tuesday, January 20th. After this date press passes will be available only for print, radio and broadcast journalists.

Restaurant owners & managers, buyers for convenience stores, markets, cafes, and gift shops, etc. as well as event planners and production (catering) coordinators: Click Here to apply for pro passes. Please include your business's name, your role/title, and your full contact information. Professionals, please note our final round of pro passes will be approved on Tuesday, January 20th. After this date pro registration is reserved for event planners and buyers from markets and restaurants only.

To stay in the loop, RSVP on Facebook! Click here: https://www.facebook.com/events/324281194423609/

*Celebrity lineup and programming schedule subject to change.