A new age of decadence has emerged in the dessert world!
"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."====http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/dining....html?_r=0
Dec 28, 2015 02:35 AM
(This post was last modified: Dec 28, 2015 02:39 AM by Magical Realist.)
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