Butter, baseball and a brand-new train: Indiana State Fair returns Friday

By: Casey Smith, Mackenzi Klemann

Outlets: Indiana Capital Chronicle

Published: August 7, 2026

Words: 1,489

Last Updated: 1 week, 5 days ago

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If there was any question whether Hoosier cuisine could find new uses for butter, deep fryers and over-the-top fixings, this year’s Indiana State Fair sets the record straight.

Consider the butter-dipped ice cream: vanilla soft serve coated in melted butter, which hardens into a golden shell finished with flaky sea salt.

Or the deep-fried Lindor Dubai chocolate truffles, skewered three at a time, dunked in funnel cake batter and fried until golden.

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