We fell in love with both Charles and the genius of his Cherpumple and felt compelled to make it for the one year anniversary celebration of our Culture Club. Our Culture Club consists of 14 women who try out something “cultural” each month. We’ve gone to wine tastings, listened to ghost stories, paddle-boarded, tasted wine, toured art, decoupaged, tried wine = all sorts of things. We also formed a “REACH” team, reading to children in shelters and supplying them with books and craft projects in an effort to encourage reading. Anyhoo…we thought there would be no other dessert worthy of celebrating one year of cultured living and good deeds other than the Cherpumple. (It was also one member’s birthday.) We made one substitution – we cooked the cherry pie in CHOCOLATE cake. We had a team of three – each baking one layer and made butter-cream cheese frosting for it. We brought the components to the party to assemble there as part of the fun. We used 9″ pans, as our pies

My work has a birthday party once a month for all the birthdays in the month and December was my month only. I had seen your video of the Cherpumple and, like you said, since everyone always seems to want a little of every selection – I thought we should go out with a bang this year.

Everyone was a little skeptical at first but after the first bite – the compliments flew about the different tastes and how they complimented each other.  My congrats goes to my coworker, Teresa Purrington, who pulled off this huge hit and even made it look fantastic.  And of course, everyone was completely stuffed!

It was HEAVENLY!

Our friend Alan, from LA, came up to the sticks of Northern California for New Years, and good food. He brought my attention to your Cherpumple, and then I read it. You DARED me to do it. I’ve never successfully passed up a dare.

It turned out beautifully, and it tasted great. I admit I went the extra mile and baked the pies from scratch (including homegrown pumpkin and apples) and made butter cream cheese frosting. Yum!

And like yours, Magic Chef supervised this one too — I think that’s probably the key to success here. (that, and hint: heat up the pies before dropping them in the unbaked cake batter so it bakes through.)

I don’t know how I could possibly top this masterpiece!

A great success! I baked the pies 2 days in advance. Bake the pies in the cakes the day before and refrigerated them. I made my own cream cheese frosting. Then I refrigerated the whole thing 2 hours before cutting. It withstood the test and my family loved it! We were amazed by how heavy it was. Our guestimate is at least 10-13 lbs! Thanks for the challenge CP!!

I saw your Cherpumple video and had to take a crack at it! I created a Cherpumple Trifle! Spiced cake, whipped cream, pumpkin pie filling, cranberry pie filling, and chocolate mousse. It was amazing and I had a blast putting it together! Happy Holidays!

I blogged about my successful Cherpumple experience! Photos are on my blog.

Thank you so much for the recipe. My wo-workers and I at the Haugh Performing Arts Center in Glendora, CA loved it. We can’t wait for more recipes…and we’d love to see you visit us again!

Megan Paige Smith

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I fully intended to make the Cherpumple, got all my ingredients together and went to town…. unfortunately I ended up in a wasteland. What came out of the oven would be a perfect Halloween dessert….

Yes, it certainly is a monster cake at that… I could not get my cake to bake all the way through… so I never finished the project. This photo is too wonderful not to share…

It was SO GOOD! I didn’t let it properly cool because I was in a hurry to get to Tiki Mike’s Kitchmas party, and it sort of cracked open on the way there!

It was delicious though!! A BIG HIT!!

My work has a birthday party once a month for all the birthdays in the month and December was my month only. I had seen a video of the Cherpumple (pie/cake) and since everyone always seems to want a little of every selection – I thought we should go out with a bang this year. My coworker Teresa took on the task and baked it for the occasion. At first everyone was a little skeptical but after the first taste the compliments flew. Needless to say, ours was an absolute hit and you guess it – we are stuffed.