Food Fodder Friday: The Cherpumple

We have a morning show here called The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show and Monday through Friday they never cease to make me laugh out loud with their ridiculous antics. They’re syndicated, so you might be able to listen to them in your area, too. (Or you could just get the podcast. Yes, it’s worth it.) Today, they were talking about this dessert called the Cherpumple, which is basically the pastry world’s version of a Turducken.

So, what the hell is a Cherpumple? It’s an apple pie baked into a spice cake, topped with a pumpkin pie baked into a yellow cake, topped with a cherry pie baked into a white cake and then the whole thing is covered in cream cheese frosting. Personally, I think they should skip the cherry pie on top and do a pecan pie baked inside of a carrot cake. I think the flavor combo wouldn’t be as chocolate cake with barbecue sauce that way. But hey, it’s a Cherpumple, not a gourmet dessert. I’ll keep my food snobbery to myself. (maybe) I’m not going to attempt to make this ginormous mess of a dessert, but I will give you the recipe in case you just can’t decide on a dessert for Thanksgiving.

It simply goes like this:

Purchase three frozen pies: one apple, one pumpkin, one cherry (or pecan if you think my idea is better than Charles Phoenix’s, the original creator of the cake/pie.)

Purchase three cake mixes: one spice, one yellow, one white (or carrot…)

Bake pies. Cool overnight.

Prepare the cake mixes.

Pour half the batter into a pan, add the specified (DE-TINNED) pie, cover with the other half of the cake batter.

Bake. (According to cake box instructions. Although Steve, from Free Beer and Hot Wings suggests that this was hogwash and that it took him seven hours to complete his masterpiece. Probably you have to bake the cake longer because, you know, the pie.)

Cool cake/pies.

Stack and frost each layer with cream cheese frosting.

Frost the outside of the cake with more cream cheese frosting.

And eat.

Then go for a jog.

Maybe do a few sit-ups too.

Here’s a video tutorial if you’re still confused.

The Free Beer and Hot Wings gang tried the cake, decided it was awful and threw it off a parking garage onto one of their producers. Clearly, they didn’t think of my pecan pie idea. I’m pretty sure it would be deliciously delicious.

The Cherpumple

{via delish.com}

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