Frog cake also been released in the colours of the Adelaide Football Club. Frog cakes have long been regarded as a South Australian icon, and have at times been used to help promote the state. For example, in 2001 frog cakes were given to judges during Joan Hall's final pitch in a successful bid to win the 2007 World Police and Fire Games for Adelaide. While there have been tongue-in-cheek and satirical suggestions to build monuments to the frog cake, such as that made by Peter Goers, a more realistic recognition of the frog cake came in 2001 when it was one
Gooey butter cake to its popularization by celebrity chef Paula Deen. There has been some controversy from the Loyet family in St. Louis, Missouri that gooey butter cake originally was created in the popular Loyet Bakery. Despite these viral claims on social media, some family members believe that the Loyet Bakery never even existed. Many St. Louis area grocery stores sell fresh or boxed gooey butter cakes. Haas baking sold a widely distributed, square and packaged version in a box that depicts a colorful, if anachronistic scene of aviator Charles Lindbergh's plane the Spirit of St. Louis flying past downtown St. Louis, the