Trivia: Which of these dishes is actually a cake?
Blood pudding
Ladyfingers
Sweetbread
Boston cream pie
The correct answer is Boston cream pie
So why is this answer correct? : In this case of misleading food names, the culprit is Boston cream pie. The cake was likely named this way in the mid-19th century when pies and cakes were baked in the same tins, so their names were often mixed up. The Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, lays claim to the earliest version of the recipe; their French chef Sanzian reportedly baked this chocolatey custard cake for the first time in 1856.