piecaken
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of pie + cake + turducken.[1]
Noun[edit]
piecaken (countable and uncountable, plural piecakens)
- A pie baked inside a cake.
- 2015 November 27, James Werrell, “Some combinations are best left apart”, in The Herald, volume 144, number 331, page 7A:
- So, what do you have for dessert after a turducken? This year, apparently, the answer is a heaping helping of piecaken. In the spirit of stuffing things into other things, a piecaken is one or several pies baked inside a cake.
- 2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a flagel with cream cheese, please”, in Tenafly Suburbanite, page 11:
- They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie).
- 2021, Kathleen Bridge, A Fatal Feast, Beyond the Page Publishing, →ISBN:
- As Patrick and I carried our desserts back to our table, I said, “Seeing that you scored the last piece of piecaken, I hope you plan on sharing. Do you even know what all the layers are?” “I think the placard said lemon cake, strawberry swirl cheesecake”—he dipped his pinky in the frosting—“with lemon frosting, and on top . . .” “Strawberry pie,” I finished for him.
- 2021 May 2, Miami Herald, volume 118, number 230, page 19T:
- In the premiere, “The South,” Hall starts the rivalry by tasking the bakers with creating a Kentucky May Day “piecaken,” with bourbon as the featured flavor.
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- ^ Hilary Hanson (2015 November 25) “Stop Calling This Dessert Monstrosity A 'Piecaken'”, in HuffPost:
- But there's one big problem with the piecaken: its name. The moniker is a nod to the "turducken," the patently disturbing Thanksgiving dish made from a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey. The word "turducken" takes one syllable from each of the birds that have given their lives for the feast. Tur=turkey, duck=duck, en=chicken. This is pretty obvious stuff, but it seems to have been lost on whoever coined the term "piecaken." The only two components here are pie and cake. What does the "n" stand for in piecaken? Unless this cake and pie concoction is going to get baked inside a chicken, this name makes no sense.