Smith Island Cakes Prove Popular This Christmas

CRISFIELD, Md. — Maryland’s official state dessert has apparently become a holiday tradition for many outside the state.

The Smith Island Baking Company, which makes the 10-layer Smith Island cakes, says that for Christmas it shipped out hundreds of cakes as a result of the company’s online business.

The five-year-old business on remote Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay has had so much demand it’s doing its baking both on the island and in an old seafood restaurant in Crisfield, back on the mainland.

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