Cake Decorating

Pie inside a cake?

So I want to make a cake for one of the students in our lab & I’d like to do something different. I won’t have a lot of time to decorate the cake & make it all fancy so was thinking maybe I could try making the cake itself different.

I see the pies inside a cake ones online & I am intrigued. The only “problem” is that there doesn’t seem to be any comments/feedback as to how they turn out. Does the pie crust get all soft & gooey from the moisture of the cake? Has anyone tried one of these? If so, I’d like to know your thoughts.

Thanks!

Kelly

Kelly's Kitchen

9 Replies

Oooohhhhhhh sounds intriguing, I’m going to have to follow this one…..xx

karen,Gwynedd

Well Karen, it doesn’t look like there is going to be anything interesting to follow here. I have opted to make the student cookies as she loves elephants & I have a new cutter to use. I will however give the pie inside a cake a go at a later date & let you know the results :-)

Kelly

Kelly's Kitchen

That’s a shame Kelly, I found this just now, so I thought I might have a go too.
We’ll compare notes xx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zexxsIQcg

karen,Gwynedd

I think I still have the recipe, my mother used to make what was called an Apricot Funny cake. Dried apricots reconstituted in hot water, layered into a baked pie crust with cake batter poured over and baked. It was pretty tasty and the pie crust did stay crispy. Years make memories different from what you thought you knew. Here is a link to a recipe I found. And I did find my mother’s original recipe as well. In my mother’s the pie crust is baked first but I was wrong about the apricots, the go on top of the poured cake batter, then baked. http://www.floras-hideout.com/recipes/recipes.php?page=recipes&data=a/Apricot_Funny_Cake

Shirley

Oooh this sounds nice too xx
Might have to try this one, love apricots!!

karen,Gwynedd

Thanks for the link Karen & thanks Shirley for the Apricot Funny Cake recipe. I am going to try making one of these pie inside a cake deals before months end & will post the results.

Kelly's Kitchen

Hi ladies. Just wanted to let you know that I tried the pie inside a cake & have a new post for it.

Kelly :-)

Kelly's Kitchen

Oooh, I’ll have a look at that Kelly xx

karen,Gwynedd