This is a Robby baking for Robby situation.
For Christmas we do a back to back family switch off.
One fam Christmas eve and the other Christmas day.
This year was my fam on the eve and Robby’s on the day.
I usually make 2 types of desserts for each family, something cakey/chocolaty and something pie-ish.
This year Robby got it into his handsome little head to make cherpumple.
Since this involves all store bought items I was hesitant to, say the least.
So Robby gave me a break and took charge of this monstrosity.
Before I get to the definition of a cherpumple and all its ridiculousness here are the other desserts I made for enjoyment:
Apple Crostata
Frangipane Tart
Mint Red Velvet (This is 1/2 iced. I forgot to take a finished pic, which is a shame because I went all candy land on it!)
Ok now to the main event.
CHER-PUM-PLE is a multifaceted wonder of American ingenuity.
It is a cherry pie ("CHER") baked into a funfetty cake. Well, actually it's supposed to be a white cake, but Robby felt no need to separate egg whites for a dessert of this - caliber.
Stacked on top of an apple pie ("PLE") baked in a spice cake.
Stacked on top of a pumpkin pie ("PUM") baked into a yellow cake.
All iced up with cream cheese frosting.
Seems like it should actually be called a cher-ple-pum or a pum-ple-cher, but I guess we all take our literary freedoms.
What? Who? How? Don't ask me, I was simply a witness to this insanity.
The first thing you have to do is go to the freezer section of your grocery store and buy each one of the pies. I think they are like $2.79 each, can't beat that. Then you take them home and bake them up according to the directions.
The next day, after they have cooled, you bake them INTO the boxed cake mixes. You can imagine how gigantic this gets. Luckily I have three 10" cake pans for just such an occasion.
Then you stack them up with a generous amount of icing in between and on top.
Robby then decorated it with a lovely winter forest scene.
Then you try to eat it.
I hated it at first, but like all store bought goodies, it grew on me.
Be sure to eat it as fast as possible. Once you cut into it the structural integrity is compromised and it will collapse before morning!!
Inspired or horrified?
PS it weighed 13.2 lbs!!
