Key lime pie, Florida

The iconic key lime pie's origins have been called in to question in recent years, and Floridians aren't happy about it.

Gooey butter cake, Missouri

Missouri's state dessert he dense, flat cake with a gooey center is for sale all over St. Louis -- in classic form or with a twist such as lemon or butter pecan flavor. It's often dusted with powdered sugar.

Shave ice, Hawaii

Shave ice came to Hawaii via sugar plantation workers from Japan, where kakigori had been a popular sweet dessert for centuries. Soft flakes of ice shaved from a solid block soak up the sweet syrup of your choice.

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A chocolate nut pie that shall not be named, Kentucky

Legal battles have been fought over a delicious chocolate walnut pie from Kentucky. Kern's Kitchen in Louisville says there's only one such pie, first created in 1954, and it has a registered trademark on Derby-Pie®

Moravian sugar cake

This coffee cake makes a delicious holiday brunch treat or a sweet coffee accompaniment any time of day. The cake has roots in Moravian Church settlements in North Carolina and Pennsylvania dating back hundreds of years.

Buckeyes, Ohio

Peanut butter and chocolate with no baking necessary. What's not to love? This candy hails from the Buckeye State,a tree with nuts that resemble the eye of a deer.

Bananas Foster, Louisiana

This banana dish involving butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, rum and banana liqueur -- and set on fire tableside and served over vanilla ice cream -- was dreamed up at Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans.

Smith Island cake, Maryland

With up to 10 thin layers of yellow cake separated by fudge frosting, this cake originating on Maryland's Smith