SugarFest
Sample some sweets or go straight to the source with a bite of sugar cane, at West Baton Rouge Museum's annual SugarFest.
West Baton Rouge Museum 845 North Jefferson Avenue, Port Allen, Louisiana 70767
Thamizhpparithi Maari
The West Baton Rouge Museum returns with its annual SugarFest, a sweet celebration of the sugar cane harvest that has twice been named a Top Twenty Southeastern Tourism event. This is a full day of family-oriented activities, live music, and hordes of kids in the throes of a massive sugar rush. This old-fashioned good time sports attractions like a mule-driven cane grinder in action, praline making, blacksmithing, woodworking, and other historic craft demonstrations; Louisiana musicians perform Dixieland jazz, spirituals, folk, Cajun/zydeco, and blues; there are hands-on activities for the kiddos, sugar-related exhibits inside the museum, wagon rides, and fresh sugar cane to gnaw on. The sweets contest takes the flavor up a notch with homemade sugary cakes, candies, cookies, and cupcakes. Ever wanted to enter grandma's cake recipe in a good, old-fashioned sweets contest? Here's your chance. Oh, and—naturally—a rum tasting. 11 am–4 pm at the museum. Free. westbatonrougemuseum.com.
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