Cotton candy is a favorite carnival snack. The melt-in-your-mouth treat has even been used as a beverage garnish. While cotton candy is popularly served at fairs and festivals, you can also make the ...

Margie Delfelder and Lary Trowbridge pause their cotton candy making on Oct. 30, 2023 to show off their sweet treats. The couple had made about 200 bags by late afternoon, with the goal of making ...

Often found at fairgrounds, carnivals, and circuses, sold on sticks and enjoyed by many, the sticky clouds of brightly colored spun sugar that make up cotton candy are familiar to all. The wispy puffs ...

A dentist and a candy maker walk into a fair. That's not the beginning of a joke — it's a historical fact. In 1904, dentist William Morrison and candy maker John C. Wharton of Nashville, Tennessee, ...

Summer is the season of state fairs, and with state fairs comes fair food, the inevitable accompaniment to the Ferris wheel, the Scrambler, the bumper cars, and the carousel. I’m talking corn dogs, ...