I read about a crazy dessert on Jamie the Very Worst Missionary. The Picaken is a pie inside a cake, the turducken of desserts if you will.
When I told my friend Christian about it at first he delighted in the portmanteau. (I had no idea what a portmanteau was despite my love for brunch and sporks). After the delight wore off he took it as a challenge to design a better franken-dessert with an even better portmanteau.
Soon he came up with the crackoopudackiedinger. It is cookies, in a pudding pie, in a graham cracker crust, in a cake.
After the initial horror wore off (come on, that is a whole lot going on in one dessert) I took it as a challenge. I figured pumpkin pie is puddingy so I coordinated the flavors around that. Ginger snaps and carrot cake use some of the same spices so that is what I went with.
The ingredients (yea, you counted right, FIVE eggs!)
Cookies in the graham cracker crust
The pie that ate the cookies
More cookies in 1/2 of the cake batter
The pie placed oh so gingerly in the cake (in hindsight I should have let the pie cool completely but I was so eager to give life to this monster)
The cake that ate the pie (look how happy it is, it doesn't care that the pie wasn't exactly intact)
Behold! the Crackoopudackiedinger! (Cream cheese frosting is a must for any cake)
Christian holding a piece of his brainchild (I love how you can really see the strata of cookie and pie and cake)
It went over very well in the office and after everyone came down from the sugar high we started brainstorming about other flavor combinations. How about a citrus version with orange cookies, key lime pie, and a lemon cake?
Any ideas for other flavor combinations?
-Lindsey
oh my goodness. this is completely awesome!!
the picture where you dumped the entire pie into the cake is by far my favorite! ha!
i am loving this and now want to go and smoosh all kinds of desserts together!! what fun!!
make another one!! make the citrus one and take more pictures!!
this is the best thing ever!!
you rock!!
Posted by: melissa | February 22, 2012 at 10:39 PM
i think you have the most fun office life imaginable. i mean, i didn't think you'd ever be able to surpass the creativity of office catapult construction but apparently you've taken things to a whole new level over there. SUPER funny! and SUPER creative! (and quite informative too, i must add)
yes, i think this is only the tip of the iceberg of a whole hosts of portmanteau desserts-- bring them on! and document them all! (do i smell a special new cookbook baking?)
love you! you're awesome!
Posted by: cmvs | February 23, 2012 at 03:47 AM
I see this often on Pinterest: Put choc chip cookie dough in a pan, like a crust, layer oreos on top, I believe; pour brownie dough over all and bake. Looks too crazy for me to investigate further!
The most I've done is put a blob of cream cheese-egg-sugar in the middle of a banana muffin. Which is very good and I should remember to do that more often!
Posted by: Mary de B | February 23, 2012 at 06:55 AM
Wow, I don't know if I'd have the patience to cook that many deserts, though using premade ginger snaps probably help. of course these are some of my absolute favorite deserts so it sounds divine if overwhelming and sugar-fueled.
how about something with nuts (assuming nobody is allergic, of course) - pecan pie, almond nut butter spread... I'm not sure. And the citrus one sounds great.
Posted by: Kathy | February 23, 2012 at 09:18 AM
Oh my god! Seeing these pictures is ridiculously awesome!!!
Christian told me about this and I couldn't believe you took the challenge and decided to make the monster desssert! And, oh, what a delicious monster it seems :)
I commend you for an amazing job and offer another suggestion: dark chocolate cookies (with chocolate chips) baked in a cheesecake (pudding-y, as you say) in a red velvet cake and topped with cream cheese icing!
Oh, the possibilities are sugar coma-inducingly endless!
Great job!!!
Posted by: Ana | February 23, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Oh my goodness! I have a sweet tooth, but I think it's too much for me!!!
Posted by: josiekitten | February 23, 2012 at 12:09 PM
i'm sorry, but this post just made me shudder in the worst way. but, i'm the kind of person that prefers my foods don't touch each other on my plate, so touching each other in the pan while baking would be a definite no no. though, i could eat a cookie, a piece of pie and a piece of cake in one sitting. good luck with your next adventure :)
Posted by: quirkygranolagirl | February 28, 2012 at 01:00 AM