Wanderlust goes to Boston! I’m blogging all this week about my weekend in Boston with Sammy and Lauren, starting with how Boston cream pie is a dessert gone extinct. Sammy and I were on a touristy quest to eat Boston cream pie in Boston, and we figured we’d find it encased at every bakery and diner, much like you would see New York Cheesecake in New York. Well, we were wrong. Not even the New England grocer Shaw’s carried it!
Boston cream pie: the most evasive dessert in Boston
So what is so Boston about this cream pie anyways, I wondered? It’s actually a misnomer because it looks like a cake (it was probably named as such because colonists baked pies in cake tins). The pie became popularized after a New York newspaper printed the recipe in 1855 – it consists of two layers of sponge cake, sandwiched together with creme, and topped with chocolate. Maybe someday I’ll bake it.
Minus this letdown, I found Boston to be a beautiful city of other sweet surprises and charm…more to come!
Tags: Boston, Boston cream pie, dessert
