How Sweet It Is: 9 desserts you must try this year at the NYS Fair - syracuse.com

Geddes, N.Y. — You know how when you’re at a nice restaurant, and the server asks if you saved room for dessert and you politely decline because you ate too much already? Well, that shouldn’t happen at the New York State Fair. For one, this isn’t a nice restaurant. This is a once-a-year event that brings us together to eat portable food on a stick while walking miles and miles in the wet heat. Plus, you can afford to live a little here.

After wolfing down a prime rib sandwich at Bosco’s and a turkey leg at Porky’s Palace, it was time to satisfy our sweet tooth. We (reporters Charlie Miller and Sunny Hernandez) spent the day searching for our favorite desserts. These aren’t outrageous creations that you’d never eat outside the fairgrounds. These are actually good sweets that can balance out all that salt you ingest.

Here are nine of our favorites:

Chocolate peanut butter espresso milkshake

Dessert at the 2021 New York State Fair — Desserts to try at the 2021 New York State Fair. Chocolate peanut butter espresso milkshake from Recess Coffee inside Gate 1, behind Chevy Court.Sunny Hernandez | ahernandez@nyup.com

Where: Recess Coffee inside Gate 1, behind Chevy Court

Cost: $9

If peanut butter cups are your favorite treat, you will fall for this cold delicious shake from local coffee roasters Recess Coffee Co. You can also get the shake made vegan, or without espresso, though the coffee flavor didn’t overpower the chocolate or peanut butter. For more frosty treats, Recess serves oat milk latte slushies, and lemonade slushies.

Caramel apple pizza

Where: Toss & Fire on Restaurant Row

Cost: $15

Popular pizza joint Toss & Fire is serving up three new specialty pies for the 2021 NYS Fair. Among all of their savory offerings, their caramel apple pizza is a sweet surprise. Made with roasted New York State apples, the pizza delivered on being dripping with warm caramel, icing, and a light sprinkling of crumb topping.

The wood-fired dough base is just the right thickness to balance out the sweet toppings and feels like a twist on an apple dumpling. The only thing that might make it better would be a big scoop of vanilla ice cream in the middle.

Maple Glazed Bacon Funnel Cake

Where: Ma & Pa’s Kettle Corn on Restaurant Row

Cost: $10

Who says you can’t eat dessert for breakfast? We did, and it was marvelous. James Bell, the owner of Ma & Pa’s Kettle Corn in Liverpool, introduced this high-end version of the funnel cake in 2019. “It’s pretty much the best thing I’ve ever eaten,” he said during a break on Saturday.

This is a deep-fried funnel cake coated with a healthy dose of maple sugar glaze. It’s not your typical breakfast syrup. Then they spread a handful chopped local bacon across the top. This is like a Belgian waffle, but better.

Mexican Fried Ice Cream

Where: Oh My Darling near the Midway entrance

Cost: $10

This dessert comes from Luna Loca, the California Tex-Mex restaurant Ryan and Leigh Ann Benz recently opened in Columbus Circle. They take a ball of high-quality vanilla ice cream and roll it in crushed Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and give it a deep freeze. They plop it into the hot oil for a few seconds to turn that cereal into a crunchy shell. They spoon a homemade chili chocolate sauce over the cooked frozen cream, add some whipped cream and sprinkle more pulverized cereal over the top.

The faint taste of the powdered chili is a perfect touch for a cold dessert, and it was perfect for a hot day.

Sweet potato cheesecake

Where: Omanii’s Lemonade Heaven, inside the Van Robinson Pan-African Village

Cost: $6

On the opening day of the fair, owner Ashanti Dickerson said one of their top sellers at Omanii’s Lemonade was their sweet potato cheesecake. When we purchased a slice on the second day, the server asked if we’d every had it and assured us it would be great.

It lived up to the hype. Smooth and deliciously creamy, this cheesecake had a graham cracker crust, a cinnamon spiced layer of sweet potato filling, and a light layer of what may be a sweetened sour cream. If you love pumpkin pie or pumpkin cheesecake, this is a must-try at the fair. This is just one of Omanii’s several desserts which include pecan pie, sweet potato pie, bean pie, sweet potato pound cake, triple threat chocolate cake, banana pudding cake and more.

Coconut Cream Donut

Coconut cream doughnut — The coconut cream doughnut from Peachey's Baking Company at the State Fair.Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com

Where: Peachey’s Baking Co. on the West End near the petting zoo

Cost: $9

There’s nothing like a dessert that is both hot and cold, all in one bite. The Peachey family from Sarasota, Florida, have figured it out.

They mix and fry their own yeast doughnuts (Or is it donuts?). When you order, you’re going to get the most warm doughnut on the rack that was just glazed. We watched as Gene Smacker scoops a hefty amount of coconut cream and whipped cream before he scatters it with toasted coconut. Because the doughnut just came out of the fryer, it’s still chewy and hot.

Be sure to eat it quickly, before the cold coconut cream cools it down.

This is too big for one person. Two of us couldn’t get through the whole thing.

Blue York Shark Bait

Where: Beak & Skiff’s 1911, outside The Eatery (also available near the Chevy Park stage inside Gate 10)

Cost: $14

If you want a dessert that’s not for kids but is young at heart, look no further than the new Beak & Skiff’s 1911 state fair cocktail, the “Blue York Shark Bait.”

Made with their 1911 blueberry vodka, frozen lemonade and fresh blueberries, it is a cold candy-like sweet tart. That theme carries throughout the drink with sour gummy candies, and a few gummy sharks. There is even an edible candy straw.

For those whose chocolate is still their dessert of choice, 1911′s classic Tipsy Cow cocktail with chocolate milk, coffee, vodka—and a cider donut— is back for another year at the Fair.

S’mores Edible Cookie Dough

Where: The Sweet Praxis in the Dairy Products Building

Cost: $8

This is a mound of edible cookie dough covered with chocolate fudge sauce, marshmallow fluff and graham cracker crumbs. It’s garnished with a piece of a chunk of chocolate and a large marshmallow that’s toasted with a torch right in front of you. Like some other desserts we tried, this has a nice balance of warm with cold elements.

Maple Ice Cream

Where: New York Maple stand in the Horticulture Building

Cost: $6

For something so seemingly simple, a cone of maple ice cream from this State Fair stalwart can be so complex. The true maple flavor mixed into the fresh heavy cream, eggs and sugar reminds you that fall is just around the corner. The only sad thing about this cone is that once the fair ends, it’s hard to find such a dessert. Maple ice cream, for us, has become a State Fair must-eat over the years. It should be a close third behind the sausage sandwich and pizza fritte.

You can get this ice cream on a cone, in a cup or turn it into a milkshake.

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Charlie Miller and Sunny Hernandez are journalists with The Post-Standard and syracuse.com. Charlie finds the best in food, drink and fun across Central New York. Contact him at (315) 382-1984, or by email at cmiller@syracuse.com. You can also find him on Twitter @HoosierCuse.

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