The 2025 Minnesota State Fair's Best New Items
The 2025 State Fair also features the unexpected, two entries from the lauded team at Patisserie 46: a pull-apart doughnut packed with local Honeycrisp apples; and a banana s'more made of brown-butter crumb cake topped with graham cracker streusel and baked with bananas, marshmallows, and chocolate chunks.
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The Apple Glaze from Patisserie 46.
Sweet lumpia — also known as turon — is available, made with ube butter banana French toast.
This hoagie comes with bison and bacon meatballs from Minnesota-based Eichten's Bison.
Tandoori Chicken Quesaratha from Holy Land.
Hot Honey Jalapeño Popper Doughnut from Fluffy's Hand Cut Donuts.
New vendor Irie Jamaican serves oxtail (jerk or barbecue) with festival (a sweet, fried bread).
Soul Bowl's Chicken-Fried Bacon Fries.
Chocolate Strawberry Cup is a new vendor for 2025.
Kora & Mila's Cookie Dough presents Birthday Cake Cookie Dough On-A-Stick.
Cheese curds fried in funnel cake batter from the Blue Barn.
Mancini's al Fresco's Cannoli Gelato Nachos.
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