<strong>Gooey butter cake in St. Louis:</strong> Versions of gooey butter cake have since surfaced in other cities but the best edition of the super-rich treat remains in St. Louis, where the cake was invented in the 1930s. Click through the gallery for more desserts around the USA.
St. Louis: Gooey butter cake —
Gooey butter cake in St. Louis: Versions of gooey butter cake have since surfaced in other cities but the best edition of the super-rich treat remains in St. Louis, where the cake was invented in the 1930s. Click through the gallery for more desserts around the USA.
courtesy Cindy Feraro
<strong>Banana pudding in Nashville:</strong> Arnold's Country Kitchen, a James Beard Foundation America's Classics Award holder, serves a popular banana pudding with homemade vanilla custard sauce, layered with vanilla wafers and fresh, ripe bananas sliced thin. Oh, and that's all topped by a meringue.
Nashville: Banana pudding —
Banana pudding in Nashville: Arnold's Country Kitchen, a James Beard Foundation America's Classics Award holder, serves a popular banana pudding with homemade vanilla custard sauce, layered with vanilla wafers and fresh, ripe bananas sliced thin. Oh, and that's all topped by a meringue.
courtesy Arnold's Country Kitchen
<strong>Wild huckleberry slump in Seattle:</strong> Anthony's Restaurants' version of wild huckleberry slump is made of sugar, flour and heavy cream -- versus a traditional crisp or cobbler topping that's more like pie dough and made with butter.
Seattle: Wild huckleberry slump —
Wild huckleberry slump in Seattle: Anthony's Restaurants' version of wild huckleberry slump is made of sugar, flour and heavy cream -- versus a traditional crisp or cobbler topping that's more like pie dough and made with butter.
courtesy Anthony's Restaurants
<strong>Tres leches cake in Houston:</strong> Originally from Nicaragua, the moist tres leches cake has found a new hub in Houston. The city's Ibiza Food and Wine Bar serves one of the more refined versions of tres leches in town -- topped with browned Italian meringue and accented with fresh-cut strawberries.
Houston: Tres leches cake —
Tres leches cake in Houston: Originally from Nicaragua, the moist tres leches cake has found a new hub in Houston. The city's Ibiza Food and Wine Bar serves one of the more refined versions of tres leches in town -- topped with browned Italian meringue and accented with fresh-cut strawberries.
courtesy Clark Cooper Concepts
<strong>Bread pudding souffle in New Orleans:</strong> The light, fluffy, French-meringued spin-off of a bread pudding is an all-year item on the menu of New Orleans' Commander's Palace.
New Orleans: Bread pudding souffle —
Bread pudding souffle in New Orleans: The light, fluffy, French-meringued spin-off of a bread pudding is an all-year item on the menu of New Orleans' Commander's Palace.
courtesy Commander's Palace