National Boston Cream Pie Day is coming up later this month, and that means you need to get your fill of the world-renowned treat that day.
The dessert, which is not actually a pie but two cakes with a vanilla custard and topped with chocolate frosting, is the Massachusetts state dessert.
Cream pies are made all around the country, but Boston has earned a reputation for having the best ones, particularly at one Boston location where the treat was supposedly invented.
When is National Cream Pie Day? And what’s the story behind it’s invention in Boston?
Here’s what to know.
When is National Cream Pie Day?
According to WhatNationalDayIsIt.com , it falls on Oct. 24.
What is a Boston Cream Pie?
A Boston Cream Pie isn’t a true pie. The dessert is actually more of a cake than a pie, according to NewEngland.com.
” Boston’s Parker House has long taken credit for just calling the thing ‘Boston cream pie,’ but whatever possessed them to do it they have never seen fit to tell,” according to Yankee Magazine . “Even Evan Jones’s respected “American Food” reports that although Boston cream pie has been on the menu at the Parker House since the day it opened, ‘the fact that it is really a cake disguised by this misnomer remains unexplained.'”