Lakes Co Eats

09/03/2026

Well, ya know… somebody had to be the best. Might as well be Minnesota . 🏈❤️💛

Game one tonight. You betcha!
SKI-U-MAH!

09/02/2026

🎡 STATE FAIR FOMO? WE’VE GOT YOU. 🎡

The Great Minnesota Get-Together is breaking attendance records AGAIN! Apparently Minnesotans take their fair food pretty seriously. 😂

And we get it. Fair food is fun. Getting hangry while dealing with the crowds? Not quite as fun.

So for the 10 people skipping the State Fair this year…

Lake? ✔️
Cabin? ✔️
Camping? ✔️
State Fair food? You betcha. ✔️

Grab some Lakes Co Eats Pickle Cheese Bread to make at home, or stop by one of our P.I.C.s (partners in cheese) tagged below.

Because you shouldn’t have to choose between Minnesota summer and cheese bread. ❤️

Pit Stop
Morgan's Meat Market
Wiste's Meat Market
DTs 118 Saloon
Lakeview Resort
Thirsty Beaver Bar
Elysian American Legion
Cleveland Muni
Medford Muni
Le Center Muni
Boxers
Faribault Eagles #1460

09/01/2026

Ope… looks like our friends’ Minnesota's Apple Fries are kind of a big deal now! ❤️🍎🎡

Not to brag, but we had ’em first. 😉

The Minnesota State Fair is catching on to what we’ve known all along these are some seriously yummy apple fries!

Congrats, you guys! ❤️ Couldn’t be happier seeing you get the love and attention you deserve.

You betcha, they’re a 10/10!

08/26/2026

If you know! You know!

Scotcheroos are Rice Krispies, peanut butter, sugar and corn syrup pressed into a pan and topped with melted chocolate and butterscotch chips, and in Minnesota they are the default bar at every function where a bar is expected.

The recipe came off a Rice Krispies box. Kellogg's printed it in the 1960s and it spread through the Midwest the way box recipes did, copied onto index cards and passed between church cookbooks until the origin got lost entirely. Plenty of Minnesotans believe their grandmother invented them.

The construction is simple and the failure points are specific. Sugar and corn syrup get heated until they just start to bubble, then peanut butter goes in off the heat. Boil that mixture too long and you get a pan of concrete. Undercook it and the bars never set. Every family has somebody who has ruined a batch and been reminded of it for years.

The topping is butterscotch and chocolate chips melted together and spread over the top. The ratio is a point of contention. Some go half and half. Some go heavier on the butterscotch, which is arguably the correct answer since the name comes from it.

Cutting them is its own science. Too cold and the topping cracks and shatters off the base. Too warm and everything smears. There is a window and people know it.

They belong to the category Minnesota calls bars, which is not brownies and not cookies and not dessert squares. Bars is the word and the word is not up for discussion.

They appear at funeral lunches, church basement coffee hours, graduation open houses, school conferences, potlucks, hockey tournaments and any garage where more than four people are standing around.

The pan is always 9x13. It is always covered in foil. It arrives already cut.

And it goes home empty, which the person who brought it will mention casually while acting like they had not been watching the whole time.

08/24/2026

OPE… WE DID IT AGAIN! 😂

THE LAST DAY OF THE FAIR and you guys completely cleaned us out of cheesecake! ❤️

What a week. The lines, the familiar faces, the new faces, the people coming back for “just one more,” and all the love you’ve shown our little food truck… we are so dang grateful.

Thank you for making this Steele County Free Fair one we’ll never forget. ❤️

And don’t be sad if you missed out today we’ll be back September 19th at the The Rustic Mamas’ Market event! 🎉

Until then… uff da, we better start making cheesecake. ❤️ Lakes Co Eats Crew

08/22/2026

🚨 IMPORTANT CHEESECAKE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Due to the fact that some of you lovely people apparently came prepared to stock your entire freezer yesterday… 😂

We’re putting a 6 cheesecake limit per customer on today’s cheesecake sales.

Not because we don’t want you to have cheesecake, we very much do. We just want to make sure as many of you as possible get a chance to take some home! ❤️

And YES we made more today. A LOT more. Because apparently you guys are serious about your cheesecake. 😂

Ope. We’re just trying to keep up.

See you at the Steele County Free Fair! 🍰❤️

08/21/2026

UFF DA!! WE RESTOCKED! 🥳

We may have gotten a little carried away yesterday… because you guys cleaned us OUT of cheesecake right at the end of the night! ❤️

But don’t worry!! We’re fully restocked and ready to go today! 🙌

⚫️Snicker Apple
⚫️Scotcheroo
⚫️Turtle
⚫️Fresh Berry

And YES… we’ve got plenty of cheese bread too. 😉

We seriously cannot thank you enough for all the love you’ve shown us at the Steele County Free Fair this week. Seeing so many familiar faces, meeting new ones, and hearing how much you’re loving the food has been pretty darn special. ❤️

We open at 11:00 AM today, and tonight is extra special because my Bestie Cori Kennedy is performin! 🥳🤠

So come see us, grab yourself a cheesecake and a cheese bread and say hi.

See you at the fair! Uff da! ❤️🏆

08/20/2026

🏆 WELL, UFF DA… WE DID IT AGAIN. 🏆

Last year, the Snicker Apple Salad Cheesecake brought home the Sweetest Award, at the Steele County Free Fair.

So naturally, we thought… well, we better see if we can do it twice.

So this year, we brought a little piece of Minnesota nostalgia to the fair with our Scotcheroo Cheesecake
And … WE WON BEST DESSERT! 🥹🏆

From Aunt Carol’s Scotcheroos at family gatherings to now putting them on a cheesecake at the county fair… this one feels pretty darn special.

Thank you to everyone who came out, stood in our lines, told your friends about us and cheered us on!

We’re pretty sure this means we officially have to keep making nostalgic Minnesota desserts now.

🏆 2026 Steele County Fair — BEST DESSERT

Cheesecake + Scotcheroos = apparently a pretty good idea.❤️

08/20/2026

❤️KEYC News Now

Lisa Kaye had a rough assignment this afternoon, helping judge new fair foods at the Steele County Free Fair