Boston cream pie

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Boston cream pie (countable and uncountable, plural Boston cream pies)

  1. A round cake that is split, filled with custard or cream, and frosted with chocolate, the official dessert of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
    • 2011 October, Judy Rosenberg with Nan Levinson, “Boston Cream Pie Cake”, in The Rosie’s Bakery All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Layer Cakes), page 35:
      More Boston than baked beans (which seem to exist mostly in cans around here), this cake creates the taste of Boston cream pie with layers of golden cake layered with a rich vanilla custard and fudge frosting.

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