A mini-pake from This is Why You’re Fat: “A mini cherry pie baked into a dark chocolate cupcake and frosted with vanilla bean buttercream.” (Pake = pie + cake.)
See here for my own pake that engendered so much disgust.
Bound to be awesome
December 16, 2010 • 1:08 pm
That looks amazing!
Cup-pake?
I guess that’s for people who can’t make up their minds. What, no à la mode?
I’m totally onboard with the idea of a gob of cherry goo inside a rich chocolate cake with (say) chocolate ganache on top. But a gob of cherry pie inside all that? No. I just don’t want pie crust inside a cake! So sue me!
I’m willing to TRY one, but only if the pie is pecan (or perhaps blueberry). Otherwise, sue me along with Ophelia.
yes, everything there prompts me to to the kitchen to try and make that, sans the pie crust.
is there a recipe?
While I remain a prejudiced pake-hater, I have to admit that that mini-pake is pretty cute!
Pake is Not Great: How Multi-Layered Frosting Poisons Everything. I can already feel the all-encompassing pericardial effusion.
However, I’m willing to relegate myself to a position of pake accommodationism for the sake of holiday revelry.
Haha. 😀
It looks like it’s growling at me *shudders*
Anyone else see a face in it? A strange, eyeless face with a huge, slobbering mouth?
Remember, when you stare into the pake, the pake stares back at you.
National Inquirer: Jesus appears in gaping cuppake
Eyes? Gaping mouth? Definitely not.
I see something else… completely unmentionable in mixed company. But then again, I worked in an STD clinic for 13 years.
Hey, there’s fruit in the middle! It MUST be good for you if there’s fruit in the middle.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Fruit with antioxidants, vitamins and dietary fiber = good for you!
Chocolate can increase serotonin which makes you happy, and can act as an antioxidant too= good for you!
Both chocolate and vanilla are thought to act as an aphrodisiacs – and sex is good for your cardiovascular fitness = good for you!
(You can make anything a health food if you try hard enough and only look at the anecdotal evidence that supports your “everything is a health food” beliefs)
Mmmm cup-pake
Didn’t Bill Cosby do a routine like that (“You gave them chocolate cake for breakfast?!”)? :-))
Of course, America is, as usual, way behind the Japanese. I’ve seen both Pie Cake, and Cake Pie over here ;-))
Photos????
Of course, they’re not the same size ;-)) Even McDonald’s here has smaller (read: original) sizes than the US, and Japanese I know who have traveled in the US are routinely shocked by the size of restaurant servings.
Chris is right–there are zillions of *great* bakeries, though there are plenty of women who bake very well at home. Just smaller size stuff. I’m always surprised when I make something from a Japanese recipe–I get a dozen cookies, instead of 4 or 5 dozen. I wonder, parenthetically, why it is that the Japanese are generally not overweight… ;-))
Which is even more confusing since it’s usually メロンパン (meronpan melon bread). I find it interesting that Americans are behind the Japanese when it comes to baking since home baking is a very different thing in Japan than it is in the U.S. Though I am also constantly surprised by the presence of really good bakeries all over Japan. I lived in Oda, a small costal city in Shimane Prefecture and there were no less than three yummy bakeries.
Avoid such indulgences. Avoid tobacco. Drink moderately, eat greens and tubers.
(Only if you like it…)
And you won’t end up like Hitchens.
Cancer is (as many diseases) an outcome of stochastic processes. There is no _guarantee_ that the outcome of heavy work with pakes, smoke, alcohol and meat will get you your desired sick leave. (But you will probably wish for it at the time.)
… or, as the saying goes, die anyway.
We might as well enjoy ourselves some. Walk an extra block or two to balance out the cuppake.
Hitchen’s problems are due to smoking and alchohol, not food.
I am baffled by how many people denigrate pakes without having tried one. I too was wary until I discovered how good they are. DATA!
A true apakeist should be willing to state which evidence would convince him/her of the existence of pake goodness.
But, Dr Coyne, are they good for your health?
Not denigrating; just saying I don’t want. I don’t want to waste the indulgence. I’d rather have the two things side by side.
Anyway I’ve got data: I know what kind of thing I like and what kind I don’t! I like smallish very intense desserts; I don’t like huge sprawling ones. I’ve never wanted a banana split, not even faintly. I just…I prefer to concentrate things.
So sue me!
I would try one if it had no animal products in it. Just because eating can be ethical, doesn’t mean it still can’t be bad for you 😉
I’m not much for cake, so that just looks like a terrible thing to do to a cherry pie.
That looks downright pornographic.
That’s what I thought. (see my comment in #6 above)
I’ll ask my analyst what he thinks…
The fingers holding the mini-pake look very delicious.
Cover of Eddie Harris album from the 70s, called “That is Why You’re Overweight”.
http://tinyurl.com/264fmaw
Coincidence? You decide.