Gardiner Cupcake Festival Bringing Over 30,000 Cupcakes This Year

Fellow cupcake lovers rejoice! It's back and bigger than ever. The sixth annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival will be held this Saturday from 12-6 at Wright’s Farm, a 453-acre farm with a 100 year history currently run by three generations of the Wright Family.

The Day will start with the Cupcake Classic 5K through the orchard starting at 10:45. In addition to the cupcake vendors, there will also be an amateur cupcake contest for best decorated, best tasting, and most creative! Bring the whole family, there will be activities for kids including face painting, cupcake decorating, helicopter rides, pony rides, wagon rides and five bouncy houses. Plus, it's a dog friendly environment.

According to the festival's website, in addition to cupcakes from Wright’s Farms, the festival will showcase creations from Deising’s Bakery from Kingston; Kokopelli Cookie Company from Washingtonville; Eat This Bakery from Montgomery, with a wide variety of cupcakes along with her gluten free cupcake; and  Peace, Love and Cupcakes from Woodstock just to name a few. Other food vendors include Brookside Farms from Gardiner with their very own grass feed hamburgers and hot dogs, Pasquale Pizza also from Gardiner and Handsome Devil from Wallkill with his fabulous BBQ.