Possum pie

Possum pie is a layered icebox pie associated with Arkansas and rarely seen far outside it. A pecan or shortbread crust carries several layers, commonly vanilla pudding, cream cheese, chocolate custard or sour cream, and the pie is covered by a thick topping of whipped cream. The name comes from the way the pie plays possum, hiding its layers under that topping; the dessert contains no possum meat. Its written history is thin. The earliest mention of the name in the Arkansas Gazette is a 1983 restaurant review, recipes for it only begin to appear in food sections in the late 2000s, and similar layered pies were already being printed by 1982 under the title The Next Best Thing to Robert Redford.