There are lots of fudge shops in the Dells, but check out Swiss Maid. A second-generation establishment that first opened in 1962, the owners began by making strictly fudge and over the years expanded to homemade taffy, caramel apples, hand-dipped chocolates and more. Stop in for regular fudge or some of the shop’s innovative flavors, such as banana split, cookie...

Carr Valley Cheese sells good stuff. Really good stuff. Sid Cook, a fourth-generation master cheesemaker, runs the enterprise And he clearly knows what he’s doing. How could he not? Cook started out riding his trike around the family’s cheese vats, crafted his first batch of cheese at 10 and nabbed his cheesemaking license at 16. Today, he’s won more top...