CannonBelles Cheese is a family friendly award winning artisan cheese company. We also own CannonBel Our shop is located between Rochester and St.
CannonBelles started with three friends, Jackie, Kathy, and Deeann. We began as cheesemakers, making our first commercial cheese in August of 2016. Entrepreneurship was successful for us, so we decided to do it again, opening CannonBelles Coffee and Ice Cream on April 1st, 2019 (no joke)! CannonBelles Cheese makes Gouda, Queso Fresco, Cheddar, and many types of Cheese Curds. Our cheese can be foun
d in local stores and ordered through our website: http://cannonbelles.com. CannonBelles Coffee and Ice Cream is a community coffee and ice cream shop located in Cannon Falls, MN. We offer a variety of coffee and espresso drinks, over 16 flavors of parlor ice cream, breakfast and lunch options, and our very own CannonBelles Cheese! Paul, making a perfect meeting location between the two. In addition, Cannon Falls is located at the head of the Cannon River Bike Trail, making us a great place to fuel up for your ride! Visit us and enjoy our fun atmosphere, great drinks, and delicious foods!
04/24/2025
🚨NEW DRINK DROP!🚨
Focus Fuel Energy Drinks have landed at CannonBelles Coffee & Ice Cream — and they’re ready to turbocharge your taste buds ⚡️
Whether you need a pick-me-up, a brain boost, or just something cool and craveable, Focus Fuel is here to energize your errands and power your patio hangs.
💥 Bold flavors
🧠 Brain-boosting ingredients
❄️ Ice-cold & ready to roll
Swing in, sip up, and stay sharp — because energy tastes better at CannonBelles.
04/23/2025
🧀✨ Say cheese, Comstock! CannonBelles Cheese has officially landed at Comstock Cheese & Sausage in Comstock, WI — part of the legendary Louie’s Finer Meats family!
Your taste buds are about to throw a dairy-fueled dance party. Swing by and take a bite outta the Midwest’s cheesiest dream.
04/20/2025
🌸🐰**Happy Easter from CannonBelles!**🐰🌸
Just a reminder — we're closed today (Sunday) to enjoy the holiday with our families (and maybe sneak a few extra chocolate eggs). 🍫🐣
Wishing you a joyful day filled with laughter, love, and possibly a competitive egg hunt or two. 🥚💐
We’ll be back tomorrow, serving up your favorite scoops & sips with extra spring in our step!
See you Monday! ☕🍦
04/17/2025
🐣🌷**Heads up, CannonBelles Crew!**🌷🐣
We’ll be CLOSED this Sunday for Easter so our team can spend the day hunting eggs, eating jellybeans for breakfast, and celebrating with their peeps (both the marshmallow kind and the human kind). 🐰💐
So hop in before Sunday to grab your ice cream fix or coffee boost—because the Easter Bunny isn’t bringing cold brew. 😉
We'll be back Monday, fully caffeinated and sprinkled with joy.
Happy Easter from all of us at CannonBelles Coffee & Ice Cream! 🍦🐣☕️
04/15/2025
🧀🎥 VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP ALERT! 🎥🧀
Grab your hairnets and curiosity—CannonBelles Cheese is going LIVE!
Join the MN Ag in the Classroom crew on
📅 Thursday, April 17 at 2 PM (Central)
for a LIVE behind-the-scenes tour of how local milk becomes award-winning cheese. 🐄✨
🧒 Geared for K–5 students, but fun for all ages!
🎓 Teachers, parents, and homeschoolers — this is your gouda opportunity to bring the farm and factory to your classroom or kitchen table.
04/15/2025
We can't wait to meet our new friends at Haskell's Wine & Spirits while we take part in CannonBelles cheese pairings with wine :)
04/11/2025
Say hello to the CannonBelles Cheese Makers: Action Figure Edition!
Complete with all the essentials—coffee mug, Grim Reaper Cheddar, ice cream cone, and a trusty cow companion—these fierce fromage females are ready to rule the dairy aisle (or at least your dreams).
Disclaimer: This image is AI-generated and just for fun. These figures aren’t for sale—but our award-winning cheese? Oh, that’s 100% real and ridiculously delicious.
Tag your cheese-loving crew and let us know what your action figure would come with!
04/11/2025
🧀 Virtual Cheese Adventure at CannonBelles! 🧀
📅 Thursday, April 17 at 2 PM (CT)
🎥 Live on Zoom + YouTube
👧🧑 Geared toward elementary students (K–5) – but everyone is welcome to watch, no matter where you live!
Join the Minnesota Department of Agriculture for a 30-minute Virtual Field Trip and explore how locally sourced milk from Square Deal Dairy in Randolph, MN is transformed into artisan cheese at CannonBelles Cheese! 🐄➡️🧀
🏫 Perfect for classrooms, homeschoolers, and curious cheese lovers of all ages
📺 Can’t watch live? A recording will be available afterward!
We’re brewing up something special this season—our Spring Drink Menu has officially sprung! 🌿☕✨
🌼 Matcha Garden – A calming matcha latte with a floral twist of lavender syrup
💧 April Showers – Blue raspberry & cherry syrups with fizzy club soda and a splash of cream
🍑 Stay Peachy Latte – Cozy peach and cinnamon syrup in a smooth, comforting latte
Fresh, fun, and only here for spring—swing by and try them all! 🌈
📍 CannonBelles Coffee & Ice Cream | Open daily
04/04/2025
🧀🧀 HOLD ON TO YOUR CRACKERS 🧀🧀
CannonBelles Cheese has officially hit the shelves at Jensen’s Market in Champlin, and we’re bringing the whole cheese board squad! 🎉
🥁 Introducing the dairy dream team:
🧀 Gouda (because you're totally gouda enough)
🌶 Queso Fresco (fresh, zesty, and ready to party)
💀 Grim Reaper Cheddar (not for the faint of taste buds 😈)
🌿 Tuscan Cheddar (cheddar with a passport)
🍒 Cranberry Cheddar (sweet, sassy, and sophisticated)
🌵 Painted Desert Cheddar (bold enough to need its own fan club)
Whether you're snacking solo or building the world’s most epic charcuterie board, we’ve got your back (and your crackers). 😎
📍 Find us in the cheese case at Jensen’s Market in Champlin
🛒 Taste local. Eat happy. Cheese boldly.
04/01/2025
🎉🎈 We’re turning 6 on April 1st... and no, this isn’t an April Fools' joke! 🎈🎉
CannonBelles Coffee & Ice Cream is officially 6 years old, and we’re throwing a party worthy of our age — which means ice cream, brats, and possibly too much sugar. 😜
Come celebrate with us on Monday, April 1st, and enjoy:
🍦 $1 off ice cream – because birthdays deserve extra sprinkles.
🌭 $5 Brat Meal Deal – we’re not brattin’ around.
🎁 Enter to win a $50 CannonBelles gift card – because who wouldn’t want free ice cream AND caffeine?
We promise no prank cones or mystery flavors (probably). Just great food, good vibes, and our awesome community.
📍 402 Mill Street W, Cannon Falls
🕒 Open all day – come party like it’s 2018!
03/29/2025
Tim Penny has had a huge impact on our business. We will miss him, but we know we are in good hands at SMIF.
One of the things I have enjoyed most about my 18-year tenure as president and CEO of Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) is visiting with entrepreneurs when I travel across
03/28/2025
We can’t wait to share the fun of cheesemaking with classrooms!
Join us to explore the process of cheesemaking at CannonBelles Cheese! You will see how locally sourced milk from Square Deal Dairy in Randolph, MN is transformed into delicious artisan cheese at CannonBelles cheese plant. This is a 30 minute virtual field trip that is targeted to K-5 students.
This virtual field trip will also be streamed live on YouTube and a recording will be available for later viewing.
CannonBelles Cheese has officially landed at Hy-Vee Mankato – Hilltop! 🙌
That’s right — your favorite locally crafted, award-winning cheeses are now just a grocery run away. 🛒💛
Stock up on the good stuff, from classic cheddars to bold, aged beauties (looking at you, Grim Reaper 👀💀).
📍 Find us in the specialty cheese section at Hy-Vee Hilltop, Mankato!
🧀 Eat local. Support local. Cheese happy.
03/25/2025
🎉🎈 We're turning SIX on April 1st... and it's no joke! 🎈🎉
(Seriously, we double-checked. Definitely not an April Fool’s prank. Probably.)
To celebrate, we’re rolling out something as sweet and sassy as we are:
The Waffle Cone Latte — available ONE DAY ONLY on our birthday! ☕🍦
It’s coffee. It’s dessert. It’s a cup full of happiness.
Come raise a mug to 6 years of scoops, sips, and sweet community vibes!
Because what better way to say "Happy Birthday to us" than highly-caffeinated dairy in a cup?
📍 CannonBelles Coffee & Ice Cream
🗓️ April 1st ONLY
🧇 + ☕ = ❤️
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Back in the Fall of 2012, Deeann and Jackie decided to try to make cheese for the first time. They had been making beer and wine together for a few years, but just couldn’t keep up with what they were making. Jackie had also married a Dairy Farmer, so she had a fresh supply of great milk.
The first cheese we ever made was a quick mozzarella. We thought it was great at first, but an hour later realized it was a flavorless cross between mozzarella and “the blob”.
We decided to try again, but this time we used cultures to make a cheddar cheese from a recipe we got from a local beer making supply store which also sold some simple cheese making ingredients. This time, it looked, felt, smelled, and tasted like cheese! We thought we’d keep trying, and it just got better.
We liked our cheese so much that we thought we could start to sell it. Our friends and family seemed to really like it, so why wouldn’t everyone else. We knew we needed the help of a dairy expert, so we asked our friend, Kathy if she’d like to join our venture. I don’t think we got the question out completely before she said yes. She grew up on a dairy farm, used to have her own herd, and has a degree and animal husbandry.
With the 3 of us ready to go, we really began researching what we needed in order to make this a successful business.
We’ve visited numerous cheese plants in Minnesota and Wisconsin, asking questions of anyone we can. We joined the American Cheese Society. We took courses to learn as much as we could. We found contractors who are helping us develop business plans and grant proposals.
In the Fall of 2015, Jackie got a message from the Cannon Falls, MN Director of Economic Development and Planning, Dave Maroney. He had heard we were looking for a home, and asked us to come meet with him. We did, and loved what we heard. Thus was born our relationship with our new hometown, Cannon Falls.
The story doesn’t end, it just continues. So many exciting things are happening for us. We hope you keep visiting our site to see what new things have occurred and where you can find our cheese. We can’t wait to share our locally made, family friendly, artisan cheeses with you!
CannonBelles Cheese is a family friendly award winning artisan cheese company. We also own CannonBel Our shop is located between Rochester and St.
