Smith island cake

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This Smith Island Cake recipe boasts eight layers of yellow cake covered in a blanket of chocolate ganache. It's the ideal layer cake for a birthday party.

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Oh. My. Goodness. What else can you say when you see a cake like that?! Well, maybe you say - cut me a slab! Anyway, that picture of loveliness is the famous Smith Island Cake from Smith Island, MD. I have so been looking forward to making (and eating) this cake! A good friend who is from Maryland told me about the Smith Island Cake last year when I started Sweet State of Mine and I was excited to learn more about it. How did such a tiny island come up with such a big cake? Smith Island was…

Smith Island Cake. Smith Island, Maryland may be a small place, but it boasts a cake with a reputation so grand, it recently became the official state dessert.

Smith Island Cake ~ 6 and 12 pencil thin layers of spongy yellow cake separated by thin layers of an old fashioned cooked chocolate icing that sets like fudge.

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The pride of Smith Island, Maryland—and the state's official dessert. Smith Island, Maryland, may be a small place, but it boasts a cake with a reputation so grand, it recently became the official state dessert. With its multiple cake layers and rich, fudgy frosting, Smith Island cake looked impressive, yet didn’t require the precise cutting of layers as we had thought. Replacing milk with heavy cream in our recipe for Smith Island Cake gave the frosting more body. We used an offset spatula…

Smith Island Cake Is the Recipe from the 1800s We Can't Get Enough Of

Smith Island Cake

This Smith Island cake features 9 buttery, vanilla-flavored cake layers, each separated with a not-too-sweet ganache icing for a showstopping dessert.

Smith Island Cake

Smith Island Cake Our recipe for this towering dessert, featuring eight layers of buttery yellow cake with chocolate-fudge icing, was inspired by a decadent version served at Becca's Smith Island Cakes in Tasley, Virgina. (From Saveur's birthday cake list)

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