Best Desserts In Every State | 50 State Favorites

From shave ice to Boston cream pie, here's

every

state

's favorite dessert. Lane pie became the official

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dessert of Alabama in 2016. Its filling typically includes pecans, coconut flakes, raisins, and a generous amount of bourbon. The indigenous people mixed seal oil, animal fat, fish, berries or other available ingredients to make akutaq. A modern adaptation of the recipe uses shortening instead of animal fat and adds sugar. Sopaipilla is a cross between Latin American fried dough and Navajo fried bread. This fried dough can be served savory or sweet. To serve as dessert, drizzle honey or sift powdered sugar on top.

Possum pie can be found in coffee shops and restaurants throughout Arkansas. Its layers consist of a base, a mixture of cream cheese, chocolate pudding and whipped cream. Donut shops are a quintessential part of California. Whether you like them simple, over the top, or filled to the brim, you'll find one you like here. Duffeyrolls are extremely popular in Denver. They look like cinnamon rolls, but they are lighter and have a flakier texture. The snickerdoodle is a classic cinnamon sugar cookie, but cream of tartar is the key ingredient to a true classic snickerdoodle. Peach cobbler is the state dessert of Delaware.

In the 19th century, Delaware was the nation's leading producer of peaches. Even today, residents love to prepare and eat the state dessert. Key lime pie is synonymous with Florida. The pie filling consists of lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolk. Restaurants and home bakers alike love making peach cobblers in Georgia. To make it more special, add ice cream on top. Shaved ice is an iconic dessert in Hawaii. A block of ice is shaved and then drizzled with rainbow syrups. You can add toppings like adzuki bean paste or condensed milk. It may look like a potato, but it's actually ice cream.

The Frozen Potato can be found at Boise's Westside Drive In. Vanilla ice cream is shaped like a potato and sprinkled with cocoa powder. It's then topped with whipped cream, Oreo cookies, and peanuts. Popcorn became the state snack of Illinois in 2004. Garrett Popcorn serves fresh popcorn to customers and can make between 30 and 150 batches per day. Popular flavors include CaramelCrisp, CheeseCorn, and a mix of the two. Indiana Sugar Cream Pie is a regional specialty characterized by its buttery crust and rich vanilla custard filling. The cake originated in the Amish and Shaker communities that settled in Indiana in the 19th century.

Le Mars, Iowa, is the ice cream capital of the world. Home to the Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor and Museum, you can find more than 50 ice cream sculptures throughout the city. Frozen custard is a denser, creamier version of ice cream. It has pasteurized egg yolk, which gives it a softer texture. Sheridan's specializes in frozen custard and has seven locations in Kansas and Missouri. Put it in a cone or cup and be sure to add toppings. Bourbon balls are a sweet, boozy treat. The bite-sized candy is made from pecans soaked in Kentucky bourbon, butter and powdered sugar and then dipped in chocolate.

Hmm! No trip to Louisiana is complete without trying the beignets at Café du Monde. Square-shaped pieces of dough are fried and sprinkled generously with powdered sugar. Blueberry pie, made with wild Maine blueberries, became the state dessert in 2011. Maine is one of the world's leading suppliers of wild blueberries, which should not be confused with cultivated blueberries. Wild blueberries are smaller and have a sweeter, more tart flavor. Smith Island Cake is a layer cake named after Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Traditionally, it consists of eight to 10 layers of cake with frosting between each layer. Boston Cream Pie is a delicious cake filled with custard or cream, and the chocolate frosting is a must.

It is also the state dessert of Massachusetts. Michigan is well known for its Mackinac Island fudge. Visitors can watch it being poured onto a slab of marble and transformed into a solid mass as it cools and hardens. While a muffin may be considered more of a breakfast food, you can certainly eat it as a dessert, especially since Minnesota's state muffin is the blueberry muffin. Mississippi mud pie is a rich chocolate dessert. The cake consists of a chocolate base, one to three chocolate layers, and a whipped cream topping. The gooey butter cake is a St. Louis original.

It has a yellow sponge cake bottom with cream cheese, egg and powdered sugar filling. Blueberry pie is a favorite dessert in Montana. Blueberries are grown in the northwestern United States, especially in the mountainous areas of Montana. They are sweet and tart, similar to blueberries, and perfect for a dessert cake. Kolache is a puff pastry roll popular in the Midwest and Texas. The soft dough is filled with cream cheese or fruit. It originated in Eastern Europe and came to the United States in the 19th century. You can find chocolate delights all over Nevada at chocolate shops or all-you-can-eat buffets.

Las Vegas also has one of the largest chocolate fountains in the world at the Bellagio, standing 27 feet tall. Cider donuts are a New England favorite, especially in the fall. New Hampshire is home to many apple orchards, including the oldest continuously operating apple orchard in the United States, Applecrest Farms. Saltwater taffy is a candy you can enjoy on many New Jersey boardwalks. It is made by mixing and stretching corn syrup, sugar and butter. There are dozens of flavors to enjoy, including vanilla, strawberry, and bubblegum. Bizcochitos are the state cookie of New Mexico. The anise-flavored shortbread cookie is often eaten at special celebrations such as weddings, baptisms, and holidays.

This recipe was influenced by locals and immigrants from other Hispanic countries. New York-style cheesecake is characterized by its dense, rich texture, made possible by the use of lots of cream cheese and additional eggs and yolks. It's great on its own, but putting strawberries on top gives it an extra sweet flavor. Sweet potato pie is a Southern classic, but instead of empty calories, this pie is filled with mashed sweet potatoes, which is packed with fiber and vitamin A. Krumkake is a Norwegian waffle cookie. While it is still hot, roll the cookie into a cone and fill it with cream.

It was brought to the Midwest by Scandinavian immigrants. Buckeyes are peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate. They should resemble the nut of the horse chestnut, which is the state tree of Ohio. Arbuckle Mountain Fried Pies are famous throughout Oklahoma. These portable treats are perfect for on-the-go and there are over a dozen flavors to choose from, including chocolate and cherry. Marionberry pie is an Oregon favorite. The Marionberry was created by Oregon State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a berry development partnership in the early 20th century. The Amish of Pennsylvania invented the whoopie pie.

Marshmallow Fluff or buttercream is sandwiched between two pieces of cake-shaped cookies. The Doughboy is similar to a zeppole but local to Rhode Island. It starts as a flattened pizza dough, then is fried and coated in powdered sugar. Coconut cake is a must in the south. It is made up of coconut cake, coconut frosting and topped with toasted coconut flakes. The word "kuchen" roughly translates to "cake" in German. The dough has a dough crust and a custard and fruit filling. German immigrants brought it to South Dakota in the 1880s. Banana pudding is made up of layers of vanilla wafers, pudding, and bananas.

This simple but delicious dessert is a Southern staple. There is even a National Banana Pudding Festival held annually in Centerville, Tennessee. Texans love their pecan pie so much that they made it the state pie. You can find this nutty treat in restaurants, dessert shops, and at many family gatherings. Jell-O is the state snack of Utah. It is popular with the state's large Mormon population. To make it sweeter, add whipped cream on top. Nothing warms the heart and stomach like apple pie. Sliced ​​Vermont apples are placed inside a pie crust with a lattice top and baked to perfection.

Virginians love their chess pie. Plain cake is made up of flour, butter, sugar and eggs and sometimes an acid such as vinegar, buttermilk or lemon juice. Although the Nanaimo bar is Canadian by birth, it became popular in the United States thanks to Starbucks, whose headquarters are in Seattle. This no-bake dessert bar is decadent and delicious. Although it was invented by the Pennsylvania Dutch, shoofly cake is very popular in West Virginia. The star of the decadent cake is the molasses. There's even an annual West Virginia Molasses Festival in Arnoldsburg. Original Cream Puffs are a popular dessert at the Wisconsin State Fair.

The puff pastry is packed with cream and is so fun to eat. Cowboy cookies are packed with flavors and textures. This cookie contains chocolate, nuts, coconut, oats and cinnamon. While they are not states, these are favorite

desserts

in Washington, DC and Puerto Rico. Cupcakes reign supreme in Washington, DC. Local

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are Georgetown Cupcake and Baked and Wired. Flan is a custard dessert popular in Puerto Rico and other Spanish-speaking countries and territories. What foods do you think we should cover next? Let us know in the comments and don't forget to subscribe.