Happy Thanksgiving To All!!!

[+ Gar1eth]

May all of you and your families have a truly wonderful day!!

 

 

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Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

I give you Piecaken. The turducken's sweeter cousin!!!

 

 

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What is piecaken, you ask?

It sounds like a figment of some weird Thanksgiving fever dream, but it’s real: three types of pie stuffed in a cake. And social media has unexpectedly crowned it as the next big thing on Thanksgiving dessert tables, a space typically reserved for the just-the-basics trifecta of pumpkin, apple or pecan pie.

Piecaken has existed in underground dessert-eating circles for years, but a Thanksgiving-inspired recipe from pastry chefs at David Burke Fabrick in New York spent some time this week on the daytime talk show circuit. It’s a spiced poundcake with layers of pecan pie and pumpkin pie, topped with upside-down apple pie, slathered in cinnamon buttercream and edged in oat struessel. Just look at this thing.

Zac Young, the executive pastry chef for David Burke Group, said Wednesday that he dreamed up the recipe four months ago with Fabrick’s pastry chef, Gian Martinez. They wanted to take “dessert turducken” to the next level. The business has been churning out about 100 piecakens a day, at $49 each.

“Through the magic of butter, it all stays together,” he said of his eight-pound creation, which takes about 7 hours to construct.

As for calories, Mr. Young won’t even get into it, but some rough calculations with online calorie counters puts a slice at over 1,200 calories.

“Let’s just say we filed it away in the Thanksgiving calorie box and don’t think about it,” Mr. Young said.

The piecaken is a dish that is free of culinary constraints. It can take on many forms. On social media, people have celebrated piecaken in all of its glorious variations: Covered in chocolate, bursting with apple pie, topped with Oreos and frosted in buttercream.

Maple Pecan Pie in a Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake #piecaken IT IS DELICIOUS. Get the recipe: https://t.co/jcTm6Zyvkh pic.twitter.com/eUlHYswGKU

— Ultimately Chocolate (@ultimatelychoc) November 25, 2015

Move over Turducken, #Piecaken is the star this (American) Thanksgiving: https://t.co/JweMVQbDQz pic.twitter.com/zDyUCTGuuh

— INDIE88 (@Indie88Toronto) November 24, 2015

But let’s be clear: Piecaken is not really a pioneer, it’s a dish that carries on the great American tradition of stuffing edible things into other edible things for the sheer gluttonous joy of it.

You might be familiar with piecaken’s grandfather, turkducken. That is a dish with a shadowy past whose maker (whomever he or she was) arguably pioneered the art of food-layering. It has been described creatively by writers for The Times over the years — “stuff them one inside the other like Russian dolls,” was the excellent visual provided in 2002.

“A boneless chicken goes into a boneless duck, and the duck goes into a boneless turkey, and you stuff the whole thing and it’s just ridiculous. Also delicious,” Sam Sifton, The Times’s current food editor, said to a curious reader in 2009.

No layered food has come close to achieving the cultural notoriety of turkducken. Until now, perhaps.

Mr. Sifton seemed skeptical.

@katierogers Don't cook memes!

— Sam Sifton (@SamSifton) November 25, 2015

 

Gman

[JDXXX]

Happy Turkey Day, Gman!!!!

 

HUGS,

[rvwnsd]

The Piecaken sounds tasty. I've had Turducken. It was awful, not to mention expensive.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

[TruHart1]

 

TruHart1

[AdamSmith]

How I feel right about now...

"Maybe just one more piece of pie..."

[+ Funguy]

Looks like he needs to burp!