Pie + Cake = Pake (recipe)

I love good old fun!

I love to try something new!

I love making my kids or my guests say "huh?"

Or "what?"

Or better yet, "Yum!"

I also watch a lot of TV, usually recorded and watched late at night after the kids are in bed and I have a moment to breathe. I started watching Drop Dead Diva when it first started. I thought it was good fun and a perfect way to end my weekend. Well, this season, one of the characters opened a "Pakery."

Well, we had guest coming for the weekend and I decided this was the time to try to make a pake. I wanted a little something different o share with the kids and no better time than to make dessert than when I have guests (so I do not eat it all!)

I googled it a bit and found a lot of pies baked into a cake, but that was not what I was looking for and then it appeared, the Drop Dead Diva Classic Pake Recipe.
This was the Pake I wanted to make!  

Through my facebook posts, I even had a friend from L.A. make a Pake this weekend too. She made red velvet with cream cheese frosting and chocolate chips.

Here is what I made!

A Vanilla/Chocolate Marble Pake with chocolate glaze!

(half the kids wanted vanilla cake and half chocolate...so I had to make marble!)

THE RECIPE FOR THE MARBLE CAKE is adapted from the Domino Sugar's Chocolate Marble Cake .
YOU CAN ALSO USE  A CAKE MIX.

THIS MAKES 2 PAKES..or bake the remaining cake batter in a loaf pan at 350 for 45 minutes!

BASIC INGREDIENTS

• Refrigerated (brought to room temperature) or frozen pie crust (thawed)
• Pie tin. I used a 9" Pyrex pie pan
• Aluminum foil
• Cake batter (all ingredients for the type of cake you wish to bake - eggs, flour, sugar, etc. 
• Skewer/knife/toothpick 

VANILLA CAKE, Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2/3 cups butter, softened
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

CHOCOLATE CAKE, Ingredients

• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 cup water

CHOCOLATE GLAZE, Ingredients

• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 3 Tablespoons water
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1 Tablespoon honey
• 1 Cup powdered sugar
• 2 teaspoon vanilla

Here is how to MAKE A PAKE!

You can use the Drop Dead Diva Classic Pake Recipe too!

MAKE IT!

Vanilla Batter:

• Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda; set aside.
• In a mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each one.
• Combine buttermilk and vanilla.
• Alternate between the flour and  milk mixture and add to the butter mixture.
• Beat until blended.

Chocolate Batter:

• Combine cocoa, sugar, baking soda and water

Chocolate Glaze:

• Combine cocoa, water, butter, and honey in a sauce pan over a medium heat, until thickened.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the powdered sugar and vanilla.
• Beat to combine thoroughly

PUT IT TOGETHER!

• Preheat oven to 360F - The Marble Cake/Pake called for 375F and the crust for 350F, so I went with 360. (yes, kind of random!)
• Spray pie pan with non stick cooking spray (I did not but probably should have)
• Place one pie crust in the pie pan and form it to the pan; trim excess.
• Use a fork and punch multiple holes in the base of the pie crust for venting. 

•  Place half the vanilla batter in the pie pan.

• Drop dollops of chocolate batter on top and swirl with a skewer or knife or toothpick.

• Cover the crusts edge with strips of aluminum foil.
• Bake for 30 minutes at 360F.
• After 30 minutes, reduce the oven heat to 325F and bake for approximately 30 more minutes, I started checking my Pake around 25 minutes. My Pake baked for about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
• When done remove from oven and let cool. 
• Whip up the chocolate glaze
• Drizzle the chocolate glaze on each individual piece.

Enjoy! YUM!

Jane better have a Pake at her wedding in the Drop Dead Diva finale next week!

What do you think weird, fun?

Have you made a Pake?
My kids thought it was way cool!

This post is written and created at 504 Main by Holly Lefevre