Have we reached dessert perfection?

[Stardreamer]

Brothers and Sisters! Cheer with me for we have achieved the sugary Nirvana!

Since the beginning of time we have struggled with the decision after dinner to have pie or cake, or even to have one of each and be undeservedly accused of gluttony, but no more! Now you can have both at once, behold the Piecaken!


Move Over Turducken, PIECAKEN Is The Dish To Beat This Thanksgiving

 

[Telstra]

No dessert.
Just eat fruit is much nicer and tastier ....

 

[Vannie]

What is it with humans and stuffing things into other things?

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's interesting to look at, but do not want. Cake is not a preferred dessert unless it is some specialty. This one just appears to bury everything in a sheet cake layer.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

What is it with humans and stuffing things into other things?

There is an innuendo here, but honestly I am a simple man who would just want a plain cheese cake or pumpkin pie as a perfect dessert. This would be too much for my liking.

 

[Cormac135]

Haven't had dessert after a meal since i was in primary school.

 

[NotHardUp1]

In the last pic, it violates the principles of good dessert.

Peach kuchen is good in its own right. Peach pie another. But guess what happens when you insert a peach pie into a cake and cook it? You ruin the pie pastry which is what peach pie is, a pastry. Making pie crust doughy by smothering it in cake batter just demonstrates a lack of understanding of what has made favorite desserts popular.

The chocolate affair looks slightly more plausible. In essence, the pie crust is being sacrifices as a barrier to isolate fillings within the cake layer. There are better ways of doing that without the bastardization of a pastry layer.

Honestly, it calls to mind those accounts of encysted fetuses that become calcified and are discovered embedded in 70 year old women in third world countries. Eww.

Great thread, but terrible dessert.

 

[jbrown329]

No thanks. I can feel my blood sugar hitting 400+

 

[rareboy]

What is it with humans and stuffing things into other things?

Like Cabbage rolls?

Or buggery?

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

But the Turducken and the Piecaken just make me throw up in my mouth a little.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I'd like to go on record saying that a turducken is a fundamentally different concept than the piecaken.

Meats have been cooked together as complements for just about as long as we have been cooking animals. Bacon is an obvious example as it is used as a flavoring for many other meats.

The turducken is simply the demotion of a royal dish, typically only available to European royals in past decades/centuries, as it is a demonstrable excess. There isn't anything inherently incompatible about a bundled roast of three foul with the singular exception that a significant appeal of all three roasted is their skins with the accompanying unique flavors.

The demotion of pies into a cake's filling does significantly abrogate the primary nature of pie as a flake pastry.

It also has the unflattering visual appearance of sort of a junk dessert, with the look of a pie dumped into cake batter. Visually, it isn't so much novel or clever as it is jarring. On the web page, one is pictured with an inverted pie, just plain old unappealing.

There is a reason only limited desserts have succeeded in merging. Tiramisu, banana pudding, and cookie crusts are part of the narrow line that have incorporated one into another. On the other hand, there really isn't a good reason to put donuts into a lemon meringue pie filling, no matter how much one likes both. It simply doesn't work.

 

[Stardreamer]

No thanks. I can feel my blood sugar hitting 400+

Just wait till the state fair version comes out, battered and deep fried! Yum Yum.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

In the last pic, it violates the principles of good dessert.

Peach kuchen is good in its own right. Peach pie another. But guess what happens when you insert a peach pie into a cake and cook it? You ruin the pie pastry which is what peach pie is, a pastry. Making pie crust doughy by smothering it in cake batter just demonstrates a lack of understanding of what has made favorite desserts popular.

The chocolate affair looks slightly more plausible. In essence, the pie crust is being sacrifices as a barrier to isolate fillings within the cake layer. There are better ways of doing that without the bastardization of a pastry layer.

Honestly, it calls to mind those accounts of encysted fetuses that become calcified and are discovered embedded in 70 year old women in third world countries. Eww.

Great thread, but terrible dessert.

I agree with this really. I don't understand the point of the pastry being there - when you want a pie, the pastry is really the key and you want it flakey.

I also imagine getting a good bake on this is pretty much impossible as well, as its so heavily full of ingredients - thus make the cake less good than it otherwise would.

Just put a slice of pie and cake on a plate if that's what you want!

 

[GreyUnderscore]

A small layer of pie filling between two cake layers topped with something crunchy would be better imo.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

"Piecaken" sounds awful even for a faux German/Scandinavian name.

 

[NotHardUp1]

"Piecaken" sounds awful even for a faux German/Scandinavian name.

"Re-LEASE the Piekraken!"

 

[JPGhost]

The first 2 pics look yummy..

not this though..

I can feel the tangy-sweet peach explosion in my mouth just by looking at it (dont like peach)

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For me..it's battle between es teler and halo-halo..

 

[Telstra]

Talking about food,
people must go back to the basics and stop making food pretty.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I've seen lots of people who suffer a sort of embarrassing hysteria when presented with an "extravagant" dessert.

This is catering to that. It's not about the dessert. It's about puerile hedonism.

 

[LilBit]

Hooker, please. My chocolate bourbon pecan pie beats the everlovin' shit out of this Frankencake.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

ooh anoda way do it

anyway

cleopatra wanna grapes
_pips_
ooh how wude

tinku

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