GREAT British Bake Off winner Candice Brown will be will be among the visitors to a major food festival in Birmingham.

Candice will be joined by junior Great British Bake Off winner Amari Koryang to answer questions from fans and fellow bakers at the Birmingham Foodies Festival.

The festival will take place at Cannon Hill Park on June 23, 24 and 25 and feature a variety of attractions for all tastes.

Candice Brown said: "I'm excited to return to Foodies Festival for eight of their festivals across the UK this summer, with two baking demonstrations a day giving me the chance to share my favourite recipes with so many of my fans and fellow bakers."

The festival will give visitors a chance to experience a baking masterclass or to enter the Foodies Bake Off competition with a KitchenAid Mini for the winner.

The Chocolate, Cake and Dessert Village with freshly baked breads, sponges, tarts, jellies and desserts offers people the opportunity to taste, decorate and learn from experts.

Afternoon tea will be available in the decorated Vintage Tea Room, where teas, handmade cakes and scones with clotted cream and jam are served on china from a tea trolley by vintage styled tea ladies and gentlemen.

Dean Edwards, resident chef on ITV’s Lorraine and runner-up in Master Chef 2006, will be joining the line up in the Chef’s Theatre with his feel-good family food and healthy recipes.

The Chef's Theatre will focus on culinary wellness, with farm-to-table dishes, sugar-free cooking and feel good food trends.

The Kid's Cookery School at the festival is a chance for the whole family to join in while the children are introduced to new food and flavours from around the world.

There will be fun science-inspired kids cookery with Kiddy Cook leading classes on Marvellous Microbes, science experiments you can eat, making sherbet and ‘Fizz! Bang! Wallop!’ classes on how Co2 makes dough rise as they make bread bubble bombs, carbon dioxide rockets and delicious dough balls with homemade garlic butter with the kids.

In addition there will be outdoor activities, simple crafts, toys, books, bouncy castles and trampolines, giant hula hoops, giant Jenga, chess and garden games. Private toilets and a nursing area will also be included.

Expert mixologists and sommeliers, including Neil Phillips and Charles Metcalfe, will host a full timetable of masterclasses on wine, whisky and champagne and cheese tastings in the Drinks Theatre each day.

For those with a taste for the unusual there will be a Vietnamese Street Food Stand demonstrating how to cook with bugs and the health benefits of doing so.

People will be able to learn about the benefits of chocolate-dipped and candy-coated worms, scorpions, locusts, ants, caterpillars, mealworms and crickets.

Now in its 12th year, Foodies Festival attracts street food vendors from around the world. Japanese, Thai, Malaysian, Argentinian, Turkish, Indian, Korean, Mexican, French and African are just some of the flavours to feast on this summer.

Other attractions at the festival will include live music, pop-up bars and a VIP experience with champagne tasting sessions in the VIP area.

For tickets, visit foodiesfestival.com.