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They have coffee and a variety of desserts, including Boston cream pie. If you don’t have time, drop by a gift shop called Morsel’s inside the hotel. Although, there is also Martin’s Tavern of Georgetown that claims the proposal happened in their booth 3. The hotel is gorgeous and worth a visit just to marvel at the beautiful architecture. You can request the table for dinner if you are planning a romantic getaway in Boston. The hotel states that it is in this restaurant at the table 40 that John F. Today individual sized pies are still served in Parker’s Restaurant. So the Parker House cake might have become well known for its rather innovative use of chocolate”.Ĭan you believe that before this timeless dessert was invented the words “cake” and “chocolate” didn’t belong together? Can you imagine a world without chocolate frosted cake? What a sad world that would be! Eat Cake and Be Married! “When the Parker House opened, chocolate was mainly consumed at home as a beverage or in puddings. The use of chocolate icing on top was revolutionary. This lax approach to labeling is likely why Sanzian’s French-inspired concoction débuted as “Chocolate Cream Pie” in 1856, and why subsequent versions continued to be called pies rather than cakes”.īut there’s still more to its unique history. “at that time, pie and cake tins were often considered interchangeable, as were the words themselves. Why is it called pie then? As Yankee Magazine points out, For that’s what it is.īoston cream pie is a cake made of two layers of sponge, filled with rum infused custard cream and topped with chocolate ganache frosting. That would be my reference in the world of pies that are not really pies, but cakes. That would set a bar for all the other versions. But my first ever Boston cream pie had to be the original one.

Many reviews online say it is not the best cream pie in Boston and it’s too expensive at $8.56 a piece. “the recipe was originally called the Parker House “Chocolate Cream Pie”, and was created and served at Parker’s Restaurant from the opening of the hotel in October 1856”. You can find Boston cream pie in many bakeries and restaurants around the country, but does it get any better than trying it in the place where it was invented? The pie is a culinary creation of Boston’s Parker House, now widely known as Omni Parker House. Boston cream pie was proclaimed the official state dessert in 1996. Let me also further embarrass myself by saying it took me just a little over a year to try the official dessert of Massachusetts, although I live mere 50 miles away from Boston and have been there multiple times. Let me start by saying that I had no idea there is such a thing as the official dessert of the state.