Overview
- The Wisconsin State Fair Park Board unveiled the "Tony Evers Bakery" inside The Dairy Building at the fair's opening, formally attaching the governor’s name to the facility that produces the fair’s Original Cream Puffs.
- The board framed the move as a ceremonial honor for Evers’s longtime enthusiasm for the dessert and his public promotion of the pastry, including a widely noted eating method reporters call “Evers Style.”
- The Original Cream Puffs are baked by the Wisconsin Bakers Association in The Dairy Building, and the fair sells as many as about 400,000 of the pastries each year according to State Fair Park officials.
- The Dairy Building reopened in 2025 after a $12.5 million renovation that was approved and funded through the Wisconsin State Building Commission, which Evers chairs, and the updated bakery is part of that project.
- Fair leaders say the naming signals continued public support for State Fair Park facilities and aims to boost the park’s profile while keeping the cream puff tradition at the center of the annual fair experience.