Cherpumple

Cherpumple birthday cake

My nephew assisted when you visited the Colombia Science Center in Downey, CA when you the gingerbread house with millions of balloons. He saw your cherpumple cake video online and asked me to make him one for his birthday. I delivered it to him today and everyone loved it, so I thought I’d send you a picture. Thanks for the recipe.

Cherpumple Madness

Christmas Candy Cherpumple

I’ve been dying to make this since I heard about it last year, and finally had time this Christmas. It was so big, I took it to Christmas dinner, two more holiday parties, and still had leftovers! It was a great success & everyone was in awe!

Third time’s a charm

Today is Festivus, December 23rd, and this is my third cherpumple since Thanksgiving. Now, to be fair, Thanksgiving’s was just a pumple since it was just two of us. This one was made for a girlfriend’s annual Winter Solstice party and I used cherry pie and lemon cake, pumpkin pie and chocolate cake and apple pie and gingerbread cake. Not to mention four pounds of frosting.

On the 2nd cherpumple attempt, not all the layers were fully cooled and resulted in a hot mess o’ cherpumple. Still very tasty, just floppy. I’d recommend refridgerating the layers overnight just to be on the safe side.

30th Birthday Cherpumple

I switched it up a little to make, what I think, are better flavor combinations.

The bottom layer is an apple pie inside a yellow cake.

The middle layer is a cherry pie inside a chocolate cake.

The top layer is a pumpkin pie inside a spice cake.

Frosting is a brown sugar simple syrup whipped into egg whites, cream of tartar, vanilla extract to make a really light, almost whipped cream like texture.

No mixes. Everything from scratch except I did buy canned cherries and canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie or cherry pie filling, just the fruit).

I made this for my boyfriend’s 30th birthday. It’s all he requested. Took 2 days. This is the very definition of a labor of love. But he is sweet enough to deserve it.

My First Cherpumple

One of my co-workers first told me about the Cherpumple last year. After several false starts, I finally manned up and got it done! Well, technically it’s a cherapkin because I switched the order due to one layer being smaller than the others. I was so nervous to cut it, but putting it in the fridge for about 2 hours before serving really helped it stay together and remain upright. Everyone at work was impressed and thought it tasted great!