SMITH ISLAND, Md. -- Everybody knows the iconic Smith Island layer cake — tall, rich, and unmistakably Maryland. Mary Ada Marshall is one of the island’s most famous bakers and was pivotal in getting ...

Smith Island Bakery, home to one of the most popular iterations of the Smith Island cake, is now up for sale. Known as Maryland’s state dessert, the Smith Island Cake is characterized by its 10 thin, ...

Do you remember the first time you bit into all 10 of those delicious layers in a Smith Island Cake? In fact, the cake is so good, it was named the Maryland State Dessert in 2008. For as long as we ...

As the legend goes, well over a century ago, the wives of watermen on Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay sought to devise a dessert that would stay fresh when their husbands were out at sea. They ...

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Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. If you observe it carefully, chocolate can tell a story. At least that’s what Jinji Fraser, the founder of ...

If you've ever visited Maryland, odds are high you've stuck a fork into a slice of what's now known as Smith Island Cake. The officially designated state dessert consists of at least seven layers of ...