The Takeout shares photos, descriptions, and stories behind twelve foods that are commonly served at funerals and wakes or given to grieving people. These include corpse cakes, which actually rose on the bodies of the dead before burial, a Pennsylvania Dutch pie made of raisins, and kollyva, which is a Greek cake decorated symbolically.
Pictured above is a Texas funeral cake, which is a type of Texas sheet cake. It's made with buttermilk and covered with crumbled pecans. The icing is typically but not always baked on to present a glossy top. It's a straightforward recipe for people who cannot dedicate a lot of headspace to cooking.
Photo: Taste of the South
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