These fair foods recipes will take you back to your favorite childhood fair snacks and festival memories — from country fair style lemonade recipe, to juicy grilled corn on the cob just like you get at the state fair, to new addition pickle corn dogs and gooey fried Oreo fair cookies and more!
Best Fair Foods Recipes That Make You Swear You’re At A Local Fair Or Festival
Who doesn’t love the foods at festivals and snacks from fairs? Trying all the crazy fair recipes is one one of our favorite things to do when we go to the state fair or any local festival.
Why not try making your own foods from fairs right at home with these easy copycat recipes and fair-inspired treats like:
- Fried Oreos
- Pickle Corn Dogs
- Homemade Fair Kettle Corn
- Grilled Corn on the Cob
- Mexican Corn in a Cup
- “Better Than Caramel Corn” Toffee Popcorn
- Country Fair Lemonade
- Festival-Inspired Caramel Apple Bites
- Fair Fudge
- Country Fair Fried Biscuits
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Festival Churros
- Fried Ice Cream
- Sweet Tea
- Chocolate Popcorn
- Peanut Brittle Fair Candy
These are fun foods to make with kids and great party foods, too!
Keep scrolling for all of these fair recipes!
Fried Oreos Recipe
Fried Oreo cookies became all the rage a few years ago and they are still a fair food favorite for many!
With this recipe, you take out the oil and deep frying and instead make them in a few quick minutes in the air fryer, but they still have that same gooey cookie flavor that you get at the fair.
Be sure to dust with a little powdered sugar before serving.
Pickle Corn Dogs Recipe
I first had a pickle corndog at the fair and I became obsessed!
If you’ve never had them, your in for a treat. It’s basically a large pickle with a hotdog inside, dipped in corn dog batter, and fried like a corn dog.
(It sounds weird, I know, but trust me on this — especially if you like pickles and / or corndogs!)
I adapted the fair corn dog recipe with pickles to mini corn dog bites for our recipe, but they taste just like pickle dogs from the fair!
GET THE PICKLE CORN DOG RECIPE
Fair Corn On The Cob Recipe
What says fair more than that juicy corn on the cob?
You can easily recreate grilled fair corn at home.
Here’s the trick to getting that juicy grilled fair corn recipe taste:
GET THE FAIR CORN ON COB RECIPE
State Fair Kettle Corn Recipe
If you’ve been to county fairs or local festivals, there’s always a big cast iron pot of kettle corn cooking.
If you love that sweet and savory kettle corn flavor, you’ll be surprised how easy it is to make festival kettle corn at home!
Corn In A Cup Recipe
Mexican street corn off the cob is usually corn that is served in a cup at fairs.
It’s a great alternative to regular grilled fair corn.
Also try Mexican Street Corn On The Cob
Homemade Lemonade Recipe
Lemonade is also another favorite that we go for at our state fair.
Homemade lemonade with fresh lemons makes the best DIY summer drink and this drink recipe will take you straight back to that county fair lemonade you loved as a kid!
Fair Caramel Apples
I love the caramel apples at the fair (and the candy apples!). But, I always have a hard time eating them with the sticky caramel and the caramel apple toppings or without the apple falling off the stick.
To recreate that nostalgic fair taste of caramel apples, I made a caramel apple board that allows you bite-sized apple pieces that you can top with your choice of apple toppings!
MAKE A FAIR-INSPIRED CARAMEL APPLE SNACK BOARD
Fried Biscuits Recipe
Nothing says fair food like fried dough, amirightoramiright?!
Theses fried biscuits can be dipped in cinnamon sugar, sprinkled with powdered sugar, or eaten plain to get your fair fix for for fried dough in just minutes!
Churro Recipe
If you’re lucky, you’ll find Churros at your state fair.
Churros are a light and fluffy sweet treat dusted with cinnamon and sugar.
If you get them at a festival, be sure to get a dipping sauce if they have it. (I like chocolate dipping sauce for Churros.)
If not, they’re great on their own, too.
GET THE RECIPE FOR HOMEMADE CHURROS
Fair Style Fudge Recipe
Fudge is another fair food and festival treat that you see. You can easily recreate that creamy fair fudge recipe at home with just two ingredients. (For real!)
Fried Ice Cream Recipe
I occasionally see fried ice cream balls at fairs or festivals and I get really excited!
If you’ve never had fried ice cream, it’s ice cream that has an outer coating that is frozen and then quickly fried to form a crunch coating.
I’m not a huge ice cream fan and I LOVE this fried ice cream recipe.
We made a cheater version without the deep frying and air fried ice cream for our recipe, but the flavor is just the same.
GET THE RECIPE FOR FRIED ICE CREAM
Chocolate Coated Fair Popcorn
One of the things I love about fairs and festivals is all the different popcorn recipes you can try!
Make this yummy chocolate coated popcorn in any color or flavor that you want at home.
GET THE RECIPE FOR CHOCOLATE FAIR POPCORN
Toffee Popcorn Recipe
Readers have called this crunch toffee popcorn recipe “better than caramel corn.”
If you’re looking for a fair caramel corn recipe, you might want to try this instead. It’s a lighter, buttery, sweet and savory popcorn recipe.
Fair Sweet Tea Recipe
My daughter and husband go straight for the old-fashioned sweet tea at the fair.
While my tea recipe isn’t exactly the same as festival tea recipes, this sun tea flavor gets really close.
Fried Green Tomatoes Recipe
Again, fairs love fried foods and if you’ve been to a country fair you may have seen and tried fried green tomatoes.
If not, you’re in for treat!
They are one of my favorite fried vegetable recipes!
GET THE FRIED GREEN TOMATOES RECIPE
Peanut Brittle Recipe
Peanut brittle is another old-fashioned candy that you’ll see at county fairs (right around where they sell caramel corn and candy apples).
Readers have told me that this is the best peanut brittle recipe they’ve ever had! If you always buy it at fairs and festivals, definitely try making your own peanut brittle at home.
RECIPE TIP: Be sure to read through all the recipe tips in the post before making the peanut brittle candy.
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I hope you enjoy these fair foods recipes!
