Editing American cuisine (section)

====Desserts====
[[File:SweetPotatoPie.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sweet potato pie]]]]
[[Dessert]]s in the South tend to be quite rich and very much a legacy of entertaining to impress guests, since a Southern housewife was (and to a degree still is) expected to show her hospitality by laying out as impressive a banquet as she is able to manage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.timesdispatch.com/entertainment-life/traits-of-a-true-southern-woman/article_37092461-fec6-5a6f-b6fb-72da162d360c.html?mode=jqm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141203020720/http://m.timesdispatch.com/entertainment-life/traits-of-a-true-southern-woman/article_37092461-fec6-5a6f-b6fb-72da162d360c.html?mode=jqm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 3, 2014|title=Traits of a true Southern woman|work=Richmond.com|access-date=January 16, 2015}}</ref>

Desserts are vast and encompass [[Lane cake]], [[sweet potato pie]], [[peach cobbler]], [[pecan pie]], [[hummingbird cake]], [[Jefferson Davis pie]], [[peanut brittle]], [[coconut cake]], [[fritter|apple fritters]], peanut cookies, [[Moravian spice cookies]], [[chess pie]], [[doberge cake]], [[Lady Baltimore cake]], [[bourbon ball]]s, and caramel cake.

[[File:Red Velvet Cake Waldorf Astoria.jpg|thumb|left|Red velvet cake]]
American-style [[sponge cake]]s tend to be the rule rather than the exception as is American [[buttercream]], a place where Southern baking intersects with the rest of the United States. Nuts like pecan and hickory tend to be revered as garnishes for these desserts, and they make their way into local bakeries as fillings for chocolates.