Cherpumple "Monster" Pie Cake - New Test Kitchen Video!
The Cherpumple is the desert version of the Turducken. It’s a three-layer cake with a pie stuffed in each layer. YUM! Cherpumple is short for CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie. The apple pie is baked in spice cake, the pumpkin in yellow and the cherry in white. I DARE YOU TO TRY IT AT HOME!…& SEND PIX! Share your Cherpumple “Monster” Pie Cake creation!
The inspiration for the Cherpumple came from the typical desert table selection you would find at one of my family’s holiday celebrations. Seems there’s always cherry, pumpkin, and apple pie and a cake that’s a family tradition. It has a layer of spice and a layer of yellow. Since I always want to have a piece of each of the pies and the cake I figured why not make that waaaaaaaay more convenient. So I baked them all together as one and the Cherpumple was born.
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THE CHERPUMPLE “MONSTER” PIE CAKE
1 8″ frozen pumpkin pie
1 box spice cake mix
1 8″ frozen apple pie –
1 box yellow cake mix
1 8″ frozen cherry pie
1 box white cake mix
eggs and oil according to the cake mix
3 tall tubs of cream cheese frosting
3 8.5″ round cake pans
Bake pies according to instructions and cool to room temperature overnight. Mix cake batter according to instructions. For each layer pour about 1 1/3 cup of batter in the cake pan. Carefully de-tin the baked pie and place it face up on top of the batter in the cake pan. Push down lightly to release any trapped air. Pour enough batter on top to cover the pie. Bake according to box instructions. Cool and remove from pans the frost it like you mean it.
Since it’s the most wonderful time of the year …perhaps the cream cheese frosting should be dyed mint green! And, yes, you can serve your Cherpumple FLAMING! Then you can call it CHERPUMPLE PIE CAKE FLAMBE! Why, oh why didn’t think of that sooner? Well actually I did but I was afraid that I would burn the vintage stove shop down where we filmed the video. I’ve heard those old stoves have a lot of trapped gas!
…BTW, to serve your “monster” pie cake FLAMING …its easy… just make a little puddle of lemon extract in the frosting on the top of your cake. Just before you light it gather friends and family around, turn out the lights and watch it burn. Make sure to have 911 on speed dial just in case. Just how would you explain to your nosy neighbors that the desert version of the turducken burned your house down and singed theirs? Be fully prepared for gasps and ahhhhs as your guests see pie inside cake for the first time. Cherpumple ala mode anyone? Pie cake and ice cream go SO well together.
Here’s to my Cherpumple, your Cherpumple and YOU!!!
Dec 3, 2009
Hey ol friend Charles. Happy Holidays to you! I Love the new look of the website. As the Cherpumple goes, man this is not good for dieters, but I am all about the flaming thing. And heck why not it is the holidays. Enjoy! looks like a good time with Phoenix as usual. Y’all take care ya here. Chris (Red) All the best for you !
I could see this as a cherry-blueberry-apple combo instead, the ‘Cherblueple Cake.’ The pumpkin seems to alien to the other flavors.
Man, that was hilarious! As Lucy would say, “Food always tastes different when Charles Phoenix serves it – I don’t know WHAT he does to it!”
Another thing you can do with it: Get a bunch of friends together and watch the movie “The Great Race”. When Jack Lemmon gets knocked off the balcony into the giant cake, stop the movie and serve the Cherpumple with a Ken doll dressed up as his character stuck headfirst in the middle. (Subsequent pie fight optional.)
Oh my goodness, that is awful and terrifying in a sublime, hurricane-amazing sort of way. A force of nature that cannot be reckoned with.
Aargh! It looks wonderful. Kill me now before my arteries are completely clogged!
How can I not make this???? I have a xmas party at work coming up and one of my colleagues is encouraging me to make this. I don’t know how to back down from a challenge…
I will totally make this for christmas if you want!
Do you think the Grivas’ would appreciate it’s awesomeness?
Charles, that was a hoot! Have you sent this video to Martha or perhaps Rachael Ray or maybe Guy Fieri or Duff Goldman (The Ace of Cakes)? You should if you haven’t!!! Oh, maybe you could challenge Bobby Flay to a cherpumple pie cake throwdown!! haha!
Hope you have a great week and happy, happy holidays!
Lynn (from Phoenix)
Plump and overflowing with holiday goodness inside and out. Happy Everything!
Wow, I love that story, Charles. It so speaks of the strange transitory nature of life in LA and the sort-of spooky, carnival-like aspect of xmas tree lots and the carny-like folk who run them…
Glad to see you on JEZEBEL!
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“The Cherpumple is the desert version of the Turducken.”
Correct the misspelling:
“The Cherpumple is the dessert version of the Turducken.”
Meanwhile, I posted a link to this page for my 1,154 Facebook friends, and my son just bought those 3 cake mixes…
[...] So many great food posts lately, I just can’t stop trying or posting them all. Charles Phoenix’s delicious invention is the pie equivalent of the Turducken. It’s a mega cake stuffed with three different pies – cherry, pumpkin, and apple. Find out how to make one here. [...]