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111 N. Main Street, Le Sueur, Minn. 56058 507-665-0023 froggyscottoncandybar.com Facebook: @ froggyscottoncandybar Instagram: froggyscottoncandybar E-mail: froggyscottoncandybar@ gmail.com
Robin Seger spins up a serving of her tasty cotton candy, which comes in more than 300 flavors, at her shop, Froggy’s Cotton Candy Bar in Le Sueur. (Tom Nelson photo)
Froggy’s Cotton Candy Bar puts a flavorful spin on the traditional treat BY TOM NELSON
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ometimes when you want something done, it’d best to take matters into your own hands. Such was the beginning of the awardwinning Froggy’s Cotton Candy Bar in downtown Le Sueur. The concept for the sweet shop located in the distinctive green building at 111 N. Main Street in Le Sueur started as a desire to help build the audience at the community’s weekly summer farmers market in 2020. “The idea for the shop got started at the farmers market in Le Sueur,” said Froggy’s Cotton Candy Bar owner Robin Seger, who also serves as a vice president for the farmers market. “We wanted to bring out something sweet at the farmers market for the kids during COVID-19. We weren’t able to find anyone to come out and I figured ‘what the heck, it couldn’t be that hard to do this myself.’ I did some research into making cotton candy, bought my first machine and it just snowballed after that.”
Prior to the her debut at the farmers market, Seger had been a stay-at-home mom raising her four children and also doing direct sales with products such as Tupperware, which was her initial connection with the Le Sueur farmers market. “I was a stay-at-home mom and had never done cotton candy before, but it was just something we wanted to bring to the farmers market, so I just decided to take the leap,” Seger said. “I thought I would just do it for fun at first, and then it just started going big. People wanted our cotton candy and it just did the snowball effect. We opened up in July last year and were then booked until the end of November last year with private events and small festivals.” From those beginnings at the farmers market, Seger’s business quickly grew. “People started asking us where they could get our cotton candy when the market was over,” Seger said. “I didn’t want people to start coming over to my home, so we started looking in town for a location. Everything just fell into place for us, we found this building (111 N. Main
Froggy’s mascot keeps a close eye on the cotton-candy making. (Tom Nelson photo)
St.) and started renovating it in October (2020) with the goal of opening on Jan.
1 (2021). It actually got pushed ahead to CONTINUED ON PAGE 24
