The Dessert Expo is excited to announce that three of South Africa’s top food and baking bloggers will be sharing their recipes, tricks & tips over the expo weekend. In no particular order, we would like to introduce to you:

KATELYN ALLEGRA – TheKateTin.com

Katelyn Allegra is a food stylist, food photographer and recipe developer with over 10 years of experience in television and magazines.

Her baking and dessert blog, TheKateTin.com, has won Best Food Blog in South Africa for the last 3 years and has been featured on BuzzFeed, Fine Dining Lovers and in a host of local South African print and online publications. After studying to be a professional pastry chef at the Institute of Culinary Arts in Stellenbosch, Katelyn worked in restaurants and hotels before becoming Top Billing’s food editor.

Her journey in print and television continued on the Expresso Breakfast Show where she became well-known for her insatiable sweet tooth and creating recipes that are accessible to all who her share her obsession with baking. Katelyn lives in Cape Town with her chocolate-maker husband.

CLAIRE WINSTANELY – Good Looking & Cooking

After training at the SA Chefs Academy, Claire worked as a pastry chef in Hong Kong for 5 years before returning to SA to work as a food stylist at The Expresso Show and then moved on to host the cooking segments on the Afternoon Express show. She then left the TV world for the digital one and started the first YouTube cooking show in South Africa called ‘Good Looking and Cooking’. She now works as a full-time freelance food stylist and recipe developer with the sole mission of making food look utterly delectable.

ASTRID FIELD – The Sweet Rebellion

Astrid is a food scientist, food stylist and recipe developer living in Cape Town. Her blog, The Sweet Rebellion, has been nominated for the Saveur Best Baking and Sweets Blog 2018 and is the only South African blog to make it to the finals.

After completing a degree in Food Science, Astrid worked in a flavour laboratory for several years.

In 2013 Astrid was diagnosed with MS. She left the commercial food industry but missed the creative aspect of developing products. This combined with her incurable dessert addiction led her to start a blog documenting her baking experiments. The Sweet Rebellion is all about unapologetically sweet, decadent treats. The recipes vary from simple to showstopper – there is something sweet for any baker.

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…And it’ll make all your sweet-tooth dreams come true! Dessert aficionados are invited to embark on an indulgent journey into the deliciously vibrant world of all things dessert at South Africa’s first ever Dessert Expo!

By Roxy Greeff

Expo visitors will find everything from cakes, macarons, pastries, gelato, hand-made chocolate, cookies, and fudge, to doughnuts, ice cream, truffles, brownies, cupcakes, dessert cocktails and more – it’s a dessert foodie paradise! Dessert enthusiasts are invited to get ready to treat themselves to a range of indulgent delights.

Move aside Willy Wonka! The Dessert Expo is here! Whether you just love all things dessert, you’re in the industry or you just wanna see what it’s all about, there will be something at this amazing event for you.

Greenpoint Stadium will be packed to the brim with South Africa’s elite pastry chefs, chocolatiers, confectioners, ice cream shops, frozen dessert makers and more, everything a sweet or savoury dessert enthusiast could dream of.

In addition to all the deliciousness you will be tasting over the duration of the expo, you will also be entertained with local celebrity cooking demos, bake-offs, competitions and workshops. And we’ll be there too!

Keep your eyes peeled on our website to find out who will be making an appearance.

To make things even more exciting, MyKitchen will be giving away 50 double tickets to The Dessert Expo (Western Cape MyKitchen subscribers only) to the value of R240 (R120 pp).

Not a subscriber? Not to worry! Buy the November issue of MyKitchen (on sale in stores 13 October), where all MK readers get 50% off by entering the voucher code on page 69 when buying tickets to the 2018 Dessert Expo at quicket.co.za.

What are you waiting for?

THE DETAILS

When: 23-25 November 2018
Where: Greenpoint Stadium, Fritz Sonnenberg Road, Green Point, Cape Town, 8051
Tickets: quicket.co.za
Website: dessertexpo.co.za

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