The Red Velvet Revolution at the Indiana State Fair

Posted on August 19, 2014January 28, 2017 by Matt Todd

Funnel cakes.

They’re awesome. They’re probably my favorite non-Fall Festival fair food. Sure, they’re pretty horrible for you. But there really isn’t much that can beat the warm, sticky, fried dough goodness of a fresh funnel cake.

I remember when I first tried a funnel cake topped with cherries. I think I was at Kings Island. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. I didn’t think there was anything that could have made a funnel cake taste any better than it already was. After all, you can’t improve upon perfection. Adding cherries? That took funnel cakes to an impossibly amazing level.

After discovering cherry-topped funnel cakes, I was convinced that we had reached the pinnacle of fair food awesomeness. After our trip to the Indiana State Fair this weekend, I came to realize that I was wrong.

Oh so wrong.

Red velvet took over our visit to the Indiana State Fair this year. We tried deep-fried red velvet Oreos that were covered with cream cheese and powdered sugar. They were pretty amazing and worth the wait in line (probably around 10 minutes). Some our family thought it was the best thing they ate while we were at the Fair.

I, however, was more impressed with the red velvet funnel cake that we tried.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, someone went and blew away all of my preconceived notions about what makes a good funnel cake. The red velvet funnel cake was mind-blowing.

It might not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts. It’s fairly straightforward. Red velvet batter that’s deep-fried and topped with powdered sugar and cream cheese icing. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Who is the genius who thought of this? I would like to shake this person’s hand. Shoot, I might even give him or her a giant bear hug. We experienced a red velvet revolution at the Indiana State Fair this weekend.

And our lives will never ever be the same. Ever.

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Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"