Sanders Hot Fudge Cream Puff appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Sanders hot fudge cream puff · Detroit
Sanders hot fudge cream puff is a choux pastry split, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with warm Sanders hot fudge sauce. The Michigan birthday dessert.
Frederick Sanders Schmidt opened his first Detroit candy store at Woodward and Gratiot on June 17, 1875. By the 1910s Sanders shops were serving hot fudge cream puffs at counter, and by the 1950s the chain ran 57 retail stores across the Great Lakes. Hot fudge is the canonical Sanders product; the recipe survived the chain's bankruptcy and reformation, and is now produced by Morley Candy Makers in Clinton Township. The cream puff is a Michigan birthday-dessert staple.