{"id":11973,"date":"2020-07-20T07:19:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11973"},"modified":"2021-07-11T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T01:32:12","slug":"the-best-butter-tart-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=11973","title":{"rendered":"The Best Butter Tart Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Best Butter Tart Festival is Canada\u2019s original and largest butter tart festival. It is an annual event in Ontario\u2019s butter tart heartland of Midland. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 festival was cancelled, however the date for next year\u2019s fun is June 12, 2021.<\/p>\n

At the inaugural festival in June 2013, the bakers sold out of the 10,000 butter tarts available for sale by 11 a.m.\u00a0 The number of butter tarts available for sale is increasing each year. In the last few years there has been between 150,000 to 200,000 butter tarts available! In 2019, the festival had a record 65,000 butter tart lovers in attendance.\u00a0Find out more information here: Best Butter Tart Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

The reigning champion of the festival contest is from Alliston. The Carriage House Bakery was recognized as the “Best In Show” and the bakery won in the category “Traditional: Professional Bakers.” Read more on this victory: Alliston bakery wins best butter tart, business has never been sweeter<\/a><\/p>\n

BTW – you can find recent news, photos and comments on the festival on the I Love Butter Tarts Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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By George<\/em>\u00a0has declared July as \u201cButter Tart Month.\u201d\u00a0Here is a menu of our delectable articles<\/a>\u00a0on Canada\u2019s iconic dessert.<\/p>\n

Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Best Butter Tart Festival is Canada\u2019s original and largest butter tart festival. It is an annual event in Ontario\u2019s butter tart heartland of Midland. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 festival was cancelled, however the date for next year\u2019s fun is June 12, 2021. At the inaugural festival in June 2013, the bakers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973\/revisions\/13957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}