Smith cake

A beloved Maryland tradition, the official Maryland State Dessert is a standout on any table. With its thin layers of delicate yellow cake each slathered in a decadent schmear of icing, Smith Island cake would be too beautiful to eat…. if it weren’t so darned delicious! Try it with traditional chocolate icing, or a festive cooked coconut topping for a brighter treat.

Get the recipe for Smith Island Cake, the State Dessert of Maryland. This cake is made of many layers of yellow cake with a rich chocolate frosting.

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.

Smith Island's boldest flavor yet! If you love Old Bay (or even if you don't) you'll LOVE this cake. Sweet, creamy, a little spicy, a little salty, and unmistakably delicious, it features moist vanilla Cake and buttercream frosting that's kicked up with Old Bay seasoning! The Smith Island Cake is the State Dessert of Maryland, beloved since the 1800s, when watermen from the remote fishing village of Smith Island would set out for months on end for the autumn oyster harvest. Their families…

Baking One's Way Through a Sweet Life, with Great Recipes Cooking is a necessity-everyone needs to eat-but baking is different. No one needs a chocolaty cake or a delectable sweet to survive. That is, until that moment when a chocolate cake is exactly what you need to survive. Author Samantha Seneviratne believes that every baking project begins with a spark-a desire, a craving, a memory, or a feeling-and through baking that spark is made real. Inspired by the gumption and charm of the…

Delia Smith's Spiced Apple and Cider Cake is made with Bramley apples, dry cider, raisins, self-raising flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, freshly grated nutmeg, spreadable butter, eggs, and light brown soft sugar. This delicious Spiced Apple and Cider Cake recipe creates a tasty dessert that takes about 1 hour and 45 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 8 people.

Smith Island cake is the official dessert of Maryland. This surprisingly simple cake features 9 delicious yellow cake layers and chocolate icing layers.

Delia Smith’s Rich Fruit Cake is made with brandy, port, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, raisins, currants, sultanas, mixed peel, almonds, orange zest, lemon zest, self-raising flour, brown sugar, butter, and eggs. This traditional Rich Fruit Cake recipe creates a delicious dessert that takes about 5 hours and 10 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 12 people.

Smith Island cake is the official dessert of Maryland. This surprisingly simple cake features 9 delicious yellow cake layers and chocolate icing layers.

This cake is a real showstopper, boasting nine layers of scrumptious yellow cake sandwiched between layers of rich chocolate icing.

Delia Smith’s Simnel Cake is made with marzipan, plain flour, baking powder, mixed spice, butter, golden caster sugar, eggs, milk, currants, sultanas, glacé cherries, unblanched almonds, orange and lemon zest, candied peel, and apricot jam. This traditional Simnel Cake recipe creates a delicious dessert that takes about 3 hours and 20 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 12 people.

Delia Smith’s Classic Christmas Cake is made with currants, sultanas, raisins, glacé cherries, mixed candied peel, brandy, plain flour, salt, nutmeg, mixed spice, dark brown soft sugar, eggs, black treacle, spreadable butter, chopped almonds, and citrus zests. This traditional Classic Christmas Cake recipe creates a delicious festive dessert that takes about 4 hours and 50 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 12 people.

Delia Smith’s Ginger Cake is a delicious dish that calls for self-raising flour, sugar, ground ginger, bicarbonate of soda, margarine, an egg that has been beaten, golden syrup, and hot water. It takes a total of 60 minutes, which makes 12.

The Delia Smith Rock Cake Recipe is a delicious treat made with self-raising flour, caster sugar, baking powder, unsalted butter, dried fruit, an egg, milk, and vanilla extract. This easy recipe takes about 30 minutes to make and makes enough for about 12 people.

Delia Smith’s Dundee Cake is made with currants, sultanas, glace cherries, mixed candied peel, ground almonds, and orange and lemon zest. This traditional Dundee Cake recipe creates a delicious dessert that takes about 2 hours to prepare and can serve up to 8 people.

Delia Smith Coffee and Walnut Cake combines the aromatic flavor of coffee with the crunchy texture of walnuts,..

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…

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