Here are 15classic American dessertsthat have, for the most part, disappeared.
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Whoopie Pies
You may remember this fluffy, subtly-chocolate dessert from when you were a kid.
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Get the recipe for Chocolate Biscoff Whoopie Pies fromGimme Some Oven.
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Tomato soup spice cake
You say tomato, we say tomato soup cake.
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The cake went on to have many incarnations, including a Halloween Spice Cake in the ’40s.
Get Veggie Desserts' recipe forTomato Soup Cake.
From most accounts, the origin of the cake’s name remains an enigma.
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Get Martha Stewarts' recipe forLady Baltimore Cake.
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Fast forward to 1947, when General Mills bought the recipe and Betty Crocker shared it.
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The rest is history!
Get Cookies & Cups' Recipe forLemon Chiffon Cake.
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Get Small Town Woman’s recipe forBrown Betty.
The homely hermit disappeared for the most part, although the cookie comes out of reclusiveness occasionally.
Get the Lemon Bowl’s Recipe forHermits.
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Get Jam and Clotted Cream’s recipe forJunket.
It’s made with rich buttery crumbs and molasses.
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Get Southern Living’s recipe forOld-Fashioned Shoofly Pie.
Baked Alaska is created with ice cream and cake and topped with meringue.
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Kirsch or liqueur is added, and the dessert is set ablaze.
Get Preppy Kitchen’s recipe forBaked Alaska.
Get Life, Love and Sugar’s recipe forBananas Foster.
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Mock apple pie
There were no apples in this pie.
Instead, buttery crackers mocked the apples in the recipe.
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The pie was popular during the Great Depression (some reports date it even before that).
Nabisco even printed the recipe on its Ritz Crackers box.
Get The Spruce Eats' recipe forMock Apple Pie.
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It has English trifle roots and went on to become a popular Southern dessert.
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Get Preppy Kitchen’s recipe forBoston Cream Pie.
Get Cooking Classy’s recipe forChess Pie.
Don’t be afraid to make substitutions and to make the flavors yours.
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A previous version of this article was published on October 17 2020.
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