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WSJ Examines The "Turducken Of Desserts"

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IT HAS SPRINKLES?! (Via Serious Eats)
Around Thanksgiving, much attention is given to how to not set your house on fire while deep frying a turkey, and to that delicious abomination of a dish, the turducken. But today, the Wall Street Journal (paywall) eye-fucks another dish that gets the Frankenstein treatment, and became an internet sensation. The "cherpumple" is a three-layer cake (yellow, spice, white) with a pie baked inside of each layer (cherry, pumpkin, apple). Creator Charles Phoenix says, "It both intrigues and horrifies people." So how did he come up with this mad dish?

Phoenix said his family always took slivers of each pie and of cake at Thanksgiving, so he figured the natural progression of the dessert would just be to combine everything. The take is made by fully baking a cherry, pumpkin and apple pie, then putting each in a cake pan, pouring cake batter over them, and baking them until the cake is done. Phoenix also advises serving it with spoons if it collapses, because "The physics of it provide a kind of 'will or won't it collapse' situation." Or you could just eat three pies and three cakes; gluttony does not discriminate.

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  • Thomas

    This is sort of the Las Vegas of deserts! Or the Leaning Tower of Pisa in excess! Disneyland you can eat! Oh, it needs vanilla ice-cream, please! I want it, I need it! Please add it to my weight gain plan, and don't make me wait till the 1st of January Twenty Eleven!

  • Elvina

    Phoenix is right, I'm intrigued and horrified. Intrigued by the imagination it takes to come up with something so Wonka-esque but horrified at the calories it entails.

    At least, "cherpumple" is fun to say :-)

    Similar culinary intrigue (though, less horror) is featured on www.takethelocalglobal.com

    Check it out!

  • Brainwash

    Where's my rutabaga?!?!?!

  • OSN!

    Disgusting. That's something a child would come up with.

  • SavoirFaire

    I've just verified that the article is not behind any pay wall and is available to view in its entirety for free at the link I've provided here.

    For Those Who Can't Decide on Dessert, Here's the Dish

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304316404575580630406169718.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop

  • Cannibal

    Fatties need snacks too!

  • RevWaldo

    DO WANT

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