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12 Best Fall Carnival Foods for Autumn Harvest Festival
These are fun fall party food ideas for appetizers and fall snacks — fun party recipes for hosting fall party!
Autumn Party Foods for Festivals and Carnival Recipes
- Fall Caramel Apple Bites
- Homemade Kettle Corn
- Festival Country Lemonade
- Fair Fried Oreos
- Pickle Corn Dogs
- Crockpot White Bean Chicken Chili
- Festival Grilled Corn on the Cob
- Carnival Toffee Popcorn
- Peanut Brittle Carnival Candy
- Festival Fudge
- S’mores Station
- Sheet Pan S’mores
Keep scrolling for all of these fall festival carnival recipes!
Recipes For Fall Festival Or Harvest Recipes
Festival Fall Caramel Apples
I love the caramel apples at festival (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 fall festival 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 FALL CARAMEL APPLE SNACK BOARD
Fair Kettle Corn Recipe
If you’ve been to county fairs, carnivals, 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!
Homemade Lemonade Recipe Like Fairs and Festivals
Lemonade is also another favorite that we go for at any festivals or fairs.
Homemade lemonade with fresh lemons is an easy carnival drink for your fall festival.
This drink recipe will take you straight back to that county fair lemonade you loved as a kid!
Fried Oreos Recipe
Fried Oreo cookies became all the rage a few years ago and they are still a favorite festival, carnival and fair food 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 Carnival Recipe
I first had a pickle corndog at the fair and I became obsessed and now it seems like I see them at festivals everywhere.
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
Slow Cooker White Bean Chicken Chili
If you want fall carnival comfort food ideas, add this crockpot white bean chicken chili.
It’s an easy recipe for a crowd and really simple to scale up and keep warm in large crockpots like this during the entire festival.
GET THE CROCK POT CHICKEN CHILI RECIPE
Festival Corn On The Cob Recipe
What says festivals more than that juicy corn on the cob?
You can easily recreate grilled carnival corn at home.
Here’s the trick to getting that juicy grilled fair corn recipe taste:
GET THE FAIR CORN ON COB RECIPE
Festival Fudge Recipe
Fudge is another fair food and festival treat that you see at carnivals.
You can easily recreate that creamy fudge recipe at home with just two ingredients.
(For real!)
Fall Carnival Toffee Popcorn Recipe
Readers have called this crunch toffee popcorn recipe “better than caramel corn” and I completely agree!
If you’re looking for a carnvial caramel corn recipe, you might want to try this instead.
It’s a lighter, buttery, sweet and savory popcorn recipe.
Festival Peanut Brittle Recipe
Peanut brittle is another old-fashioned candy that you’ll see at carnivals, usually 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. You won’t be disappointed!
RECIPE TIP: Be sure to read through all the recipe tips in the post before making the peanut brittle candy.
Traditional Campfire S’mores
If you have the capacity for a supervised campfire at your fall carnival, definitely add camp fire smores to your festival foods!
This recipes is for that nostalgic campfire smore recipe you made as a child or you make with your kids in the backyard firepit or while camping with your kids.
This is an easy recipe and you just need marshmallows roasted over the fire, graham crackers, and chocolate bars.
BEST RECIPE TIP EVER: We love these telescoping roasting sticks as the best sticks to use for roasting marshmallows and you can even use them for hotdogs, too!
GET THE RECIPE FOR CAMPFIRE SMORES
Sheet Pan Smores In The Oven
Here’s How To Make S’mores Indoors Without A Campfire!
If you don’t want to add in campfire for your fall festival, try these make-ahead oven smores that you can make and take to the carnival party.
I hope you enjoy these easy fall carnival foods!
