America's Best Regional Desserts

By Siobhan Wallace, Food & Wine

You can get molten chocolate cake anywhere in the U.S., from Washington state to Maine, but good luck finding a fried peach pie in New York or kuchen in Key West. Despite the widespread availability of many foods across America, some dessert traditions remain hyper-regional. Here, Food & Wine names America's Best Regional Desserts.

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Comments

[early epicurean]

10:27 PM on 04/14/2012

I have a bone to pick with F&W. Kuchen is the state dessert of SOUTH Dakota and not North Dakota.

[Palafox]

10:20 PM on 04/14/2012

The list's a bit lean and narrow, no?

[captainspirou]

06:34 PM on 04/14/2012

No Key Lime Pie?!

[thebarbecuemast]

03:47 PM on 04/14/2012

ny cookies are not as good as those in phoenix i lived in manhattan for 12 years and our arizona cookies are so much better

[thebarbecuemast]

03:46 PM on 04/14/2012

the black and white cookies are better at karshs backery in downtown phoenix

[jazznjavasf]

03:35 PM on 04/13/2012

NYC- Black and White cookies? Every NYC bakery seems to have them, but they never appear to be a best seller -- and after tasting a few, I know why -- just not much taste to them; more eye appeal than flavor. Now, NY cheesecake..mmm.

[BLACKCAT66]

03:08 PM on 04/14/2012

Entenmann's (the national brand) makes a wonderful black and white - very moist tender cake.

[James Caroline]

02:35 PM on 04/13/2012

Black and White cookies? Any excuse to list NYC I see. Persimmon Pudding in the Midwest is not only better tasting it's something people might actually cook.

[chadramey]

08:32 AM on 04/13/2012

coca cola cake and 7 up cakes are very popular all over the south....... I've never seen a coca cola cake quite as light in color as that.... they are usually chocolate and flavored with cocoa

[BLACKCAT66]

03:12 PM on 04/14/2012

Being a yankee I've never seen a coco cola cake but it sounds interesting. I haven't had a decent Boston Cream pie in years. This article is inspiring me to spend a little time in the kitchen this weekend.

[crimminy]

01:59 AM on 04/13/2012

I'm sure if a reporter wanted to do a bit more research, he/she could find some pretty great regional desserts in many other states/cities....

[cul8rsb]

05:33 PM on 04/12/2012

We all love desserts.

[GraceNotes]

01:18 PM on 04/12/2012

My mother used to make a Coca-Cola cake, except she baked it as a sheet cake. It was considerably darker than the one pictured, and the frosting featured both mini-marshmallows and chopped pecans. It was delicious!

[chadramey]

08:33 AM on 04/13/2012

that sounds like a missississippi mud cake using the coca cola cake as the base......

[farginbastidge]

06:25 PM on 04/14/2012

I've never seen a coca cola cake that light, or baked as a layer cake either. The coca cola cake I'm used to is a sheet cake with mini marshmallows baked into it, usually with dark chocolate frosting. I suspect the cake pictured in the article lacks cocoa powder and is flavored just with the cola.

[FredDerf]

10:47 AM on 04/12/2012

Oreos and a glass of milk. Simple but oh so good.

[hallo spacedog]

10:19 AM on 04/12/2012

Surprised they missed St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake... one of the things I miss from my time there.

[MrWampler]

04:09 AM on 04/12/2012

Malasadas or Honey Toast in Honolulu.

[c-tom]

01:33 AM on 04/12/2012

Where are the best regional examples found for : Pecan pie, peach pie, sweet potato pie, shoo-fly pie and the ever popular key lime pie? You may have noticed that I like pie.

[JScott]

11:01 AM on 04/14/2012

As Spongebob sez everybody likes pie