One of Bermuda’s top social media stars has been featured in The Wall Street Journal.

Dylan Hollis, known for his tutorials on baking vintage recipes, put a spotlight on the kiskadee fantasy, a Bermudian pie from the 1950s, in an article published last Wednesday.

“Its unveiling at the barbecue will bring a swift end to any sense of logic or patience in the serving line,” Mr Hollis wrote in the article.

“Kiskadee Fantasy is an object of unmatched affection. It is also cheap and dead simple to make.”

The kiskadee fantasy is made up of a sweetened saltine cracker crust, meringue and chunks of canned pineapple, giving it a look reminiscent of the yellow-chested bird it is named after.

It was designed as an economic sweet treat made mostly out of common pantry ingredients.

In his article, Mr Hollis briefly explored the historical background behind the pie, as well as his personal ties to the recipe.

He said: “Years ago, my father taught me to roll the saltine crumbs, to wait patiently for the meringue to cool, to properly drain the pineapple and to let the pie firm up before slicing.

“All these summers later, this salty-sweet, bright and creamy dessert of the ’50s stands on its own merits — though I certainly can’t claim that my rosy recollection of its preparation and an abiding sense of patriotism have no bearing on my perception of this pie. That’d be nonsense.”

Mr Hollis’s article comes during the roll out of his new cookbook, Baking Yesteryear, which compiles antique recipes created between 1900 and the 1980s.

Baking Yesteryear comes out on July 25 and has been available for pre-order since the start of the year.

Mr Hollis took the internet by storm in 2020 after posting several videos of him testing out vintage recipes, many of which appear in his cookbook, to TikTok.

His humour and energetic style, coupled with the unique and often bizarre dishes, earned him millions of likes and views over the years.

Mr Hollis has also shown off a small Bermudian flag on his refrigerator in almost all of his videos.

He currently has more than ten million followers on his TikTok account, about 1.99 million subscribers on YouTube, and about 995,000 followers on Instagram.

Mr Hollis has had a knack for the vintage ever since he was a youngster.

In a 2012 profile in The Royal Gazette, then a Warwick Academy pupil, aged 17, admitted he was “very much a lover of the early days”.

After moving to the US to attend the University of Wyoming, his interest in music mid-20th century US culture led him to purchase a 1963 Cadillac and, when combined with his talent for music, study big-band jazz from the 1940s.