Smith island cake

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.

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Steeped in history and tradition, get a peek of Smith Island Baking Company, the Maryland bakery making the cakes!

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

The state dessert for Maryland is the Smith Island Cake. It is 8-12 moist layers of yellow cake with decadent fudge frosting.

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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A recipe for a Smith Island Cake! This decadent dessert pairs multiple layers of yellow cake with a rich chocolate frosting.

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