The most popular dessert in the 1900s was Jell-O.
Jell-O was heavily promoted in the 1900s as "America's Most Famous Dessert, after it's 1904 marketing surge.
While Jell-O was introduced earlier, Jell-O also surged in popularity in the early 1900s as an affordable and quick as well as fashionable dessert that is often served with fruit or even in elaborate molds.
Other desserts that were the most popular in the 1900s were ice cream cones, sponge cakes and simple cakes, baked apples and even chocolate cakes.
Chocolate cakes gained their popularity as a popular and loved dessert in the 1900s as cocoa powder became more accessible.
Baked apples also became a standard, comforting and simple dessert in the 1900s.
Sponge Cakes and Simple cakes, especially the sponge cakes often filled with jelly or fruit preserves were common in the 1900s due to their affordability.
Ice Cream Cones were popularized in 1904 at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, which is a portable dessert became a staple treat in the 1900s.
In the 1900s the 1900s marked a shift towards easier to make and often also molded desserts, which took advantage of improved household refrigeration as well as manufacturing of food.
The 1900s was the decade that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909.
The Edwardian era covers a similar span of time.
The term "nineteen-hundreds" is sometimes also used to mean the entire century from January 1, 1900, to December 31, 1999.
The 1900s were a decade of transformation for the world, but especially for the United States, which saw the rise of motion pictures, motor vehicles, and experimental flight; the influence of presidents Roosevelt and Taft; and disasters such as the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
A staple food item in the 1900s was potatoes.
If a family didn't grow their own potatoes in the 1900s they could purchase 70 pounds of potatoes for $1.00.
Beef steaks today are expensive but in 1900 a family could purchase 7 ½ pounds of steak meat for $1.00.