What is your State's dessert?

[madringal]

Sugar creme pie - never heard of it.

[cinnamoncox]

MA

Boston cream pie

I was thinking that was it but I double checked because I was thinking maybe chocolate chip cookies.

[speckledfrog]

Pecan pie. No surprise there.

[DeeDee]

Wisconsin

Kringle

What is a kringle, you ask? Why, just head over to kringle.com, which tells you everything you need to know: The home page bears several photographs of the ring-shaped, fruit-filled, streudel-like pastries and a large insignia reading “Official State Pastry of Wisconsin.” Wisconsinites know that the best kringles are found in Racine County, whose Danish immigrants have made it “America’s Kringle Capital.”

[circa1978]

I knew this was going to be gooey butter cake.

[gault]

BARRRRRRRS.

Lots of nasal R in there and you're good to go.

[jinkies]

Banana Split. Lame.

I thought it would either be Hershey's chocolate or Shoo Fly Pie.

[emjacobs]

CHESS PIE
Chess pie (the name is possibly a corruption of “chest pie” or “cheese pie”) is filled with a custard containing eggs, butter, flour, sugar, and usually cornmeal. Chess pie is awarded to Virginia because the very first written recipe for such a pie, hiding under the alias “transparent pudding,” appeared in The Virginia House-wife in 1825.

Never heard of it.

[cinnamoncox]

Aug 25, 2014 12:42:21 GMT -5 deej said:

Ours is fudge.

Oh I love fudge so much!

[Eagles]

I had no idea the banana split was created in PA. Poor Jerz, getting stuck with salt water taffy.

[luckyval]

Sweet Potato Pie! Yuuuuum

Sweet potato pie is one of those pan-Southern desserts, a mainstay of soul food with roots in slave cooking. So why does North Carolina get it, instead of, say, Georgia, Virginia, or Mississippi? Tar Heels grow more sweet potatoes than residents of any other state, which gives them dibs on the tuber’s most illustrious dish.

[wowhead]

Ohio
Buckeye candy
Buckeye candy is so called for its resemblance to the nut of the buckeye, the state tree of Ohio and nickname for its residents. Like a cross between peanut butter fudge and peanut butter cups, Buckeye candies consist of a ball of sweet peanut butter dough dipped in melted chocolate. Congratulations to Ohio for producing a confection that actually looks like the thing it’s supposed to look like, and that’s delicious to boot.

[Eagles]

Aug 25, 2014 12:43:39 GMT -5 jinkies said:

Banana Split. Lame.

I thought it would either be Hershey's chocolate or Shoo Fly Pie.

I'm indignant on behalf of my Pennsylvania Dutch forebears.

[revolution]

Aug 25, 2014 12:43:39 GMT -5 jinkies said:

Banana Split. Lame.

I thought it would either be Hershey's chocolate or Shoo Fly Pie.

I was expecting Shoo Fly Pie, too.  It did get a mention, though.

[chiclet]

Pecan Pie, which I hate.

[jinkies]

Upon further reflection, I don't think I have ever personally seen anyone eat a banana split, ever.

[sherbanator]

I have never even heard of my state's dessert. Nanaimo bars for Washington.

[dexteroni]

Aug 25, 2014 12:51:53 GMT -5 wowhead said:

Ohio
Buckeye candy

Same! It's the only thing it really could have been. Also mmm now I want buckeyes.

[PeonyParty]

Sweet Potato Pie. No shocks here.

[speckledfrog]

Aug 25, 2014 12:53:20 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Aug 25, 2014 12:43:39 GMT -5 jinkies said:

Banana Split. Lame.

I thought it would either be Hershey's chocolate or Shoo Fly Pie.

It says in the beginning that they weren't going to use any brands for the sake of this article.

Good thing, otherwise MA might be stuck with the Necco wafer.

[escrow]

Bahaha, sorry if someone else already posted this.

Colorado

pot candy

The legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado at the beginning of this year opened the floodgates to a vigorous and controversial edibles industry. It was never any question that Colorado’s state dessert would be laced with THC—the question was, what kind of sweet edible should get the crown? Cookies? Brownies? Gummy bears?

Thankfully, Maureen Dowd recently settled matters in an instant-classic column describing a “caramel-chocolate flavored candy bar” that made her “convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.” If you’d like to make weed-laced caramel-chocolate bars at home in Dowd’s honor, here is one of many recipes available online.

[lostlenore]

Aug 25, 2014 12:51:53 GMT -5 wowhead said:

Ohio
Buckeye candy
Buckeye candy is so called for its resemblance to the nut of the buckeye, the state tree of Ohio and nickname for its residents. Like a cross between peanut butter fudge and peanut butter cups, Buckeye candies consist of a ball of sweet peanut butter dough dipped in melted chocolate. Congratulations to Ohio for producing a confection that actually looks like the thing it’s supposed to look like, and that’s delicious to boot.

Not surprised!  I love buckeyes!!!

[Deleted]

Utah - Jell-O. It's always Jell-O. Stupid myth just won't die. I really don't think it's THAT popular here anymore.

[katfco]

Nor surprising: Massachusetts, Boston Cream Pie and Ohio, the buckeye.

[katfco]

Aug 25, 2014 13:03:34 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

Aug 25, 2014 12:53:20 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

It says in the beginning that they weren't going to use any brands for the sake of this article.

Good thing, otherwise MA might be stuck with the Necco wafer.

I think MA should get chocolate chip cookies as an honorable mention. 

[BaliHai]

I can't be mad about a banana split.

[Bernadine]

Maryland
Smith Island cake
Smith Island is a tiny community of a few hundred people on the Chesapeake Bay. When they’re not catching soft-shell crabs, Smith Islanders spend their time making absurdly exacting cakes of six to 12 layers interspersed with chocolate icing. The Smith Island Baking Company, the only bakery on Smith Island, has proclaimed itself “the #1 Dessert Company in the World,” and assuming they’re judging on a scale of arduousness, I have to agree. Even though Smith Island cakes aren’t commonly made in the rest of Maryland, they became the official state dessert in 2008—a testament to Smith Island’s PR power (and to the paucity of other Maryland dessert specialties).

Eh, they're ok. I like my cake with more cake than icing.

I know they said they weren't doing brands, but really, Berger cookies are my favorite MD dessert, and I can't wait to introduce them to frkls. If she hasn't tried them already. I actually just picked some up. They're the perfect PMS/period food.

[liverandonions]

California: meyer lemon cake

Never had it, never seen it on a menu.

[Deleted]

NY--cheesecake. How...creative. With the usual disclaimer that NY is more than NYC, but they're going with NYC anyway.

[isabel]

Pot candy. But of course.