Hog or no hog, this dessert is a picnic classic. Allrecipes/Julia Hartbeck There are certain truths in food that go without saying. Pie is humble. Cucumbers are cool. And cake goes with a pig pickin’.

Drummond shared her recipe for something she called “pig cake” in a 2011 blog post on her Pioneer Woman website. “A classic potluck cake that’s even more delicious if you make it the night before,” ...