Desseption, or The Abomination

So, a while back, I was shown this, and decided that I needed to retaliate.  Here's a little photo log of the horror that I wrought for our regular gaming group.

Note that the photo quality is not fantastic, as they were taken with an ipod touch and I am no photographer.

 Started with mini peanut butter cups, but that wasn't enough...

So I decided to put them inside cookies.

 Starting a bad precedent, but it's too late to turn back now.

 Cookies are good, but what's better?

 Brownies, of course.

 So, in they go.

 And into the oven, along with the extra batter. (The white spot on the oven floor is long burned-on aluminum foil.)

 Cooling after cooking. But that's just not enough.

 Two pie crusts, cut and molded into a disposable turkey roasting pan.

 Preparing for the next stage while...

 Some devil's food cakes bake.

 Bottom layer of the peanut butter cup pie: PB, powdered sugar, and cream cheese beaten together.

 Cakes done and cooling.

 First layer of the layer cake trimmed to level and placed inside the pie.

 And frosted. German chocolate was always my favorite style as a kid.

 And next is the brownie construction, after also trimming to level.

 And frosted again.

 And here's the final layer of the layer cake in position.

 Adding in more PB filling to the sides of the cake.

 Big ol' pot of pudding, cooked and cooled.

 And now to figure out how to level this out, as the cake is taller than the sides of the biggest pan I could buy.

 Fully filled, and as even as I could manage.

 Still had most of a bag of peanut butter cups, so I popped them all around the edge of the pie for more evenness and a bit of stability for two steps forward.

 But a pie wasn't enough.  It needed decoration.

 And this was one of my favorite "easy cake decoration" tips from some magazine I read at work at some point years ago. But that just isn't enough layers. We need to go deeper.

 Another layer for a bit more complication: meringue.

 And cooked. I made it fairly thin, as not everyone likes meringue. It's okay when people are wrong. But, that in mind, we might as well add another layer for appeasement.

 So, I threw a bunch of whipped cream on there.  Why not?

 And, of course, a cherry on top, because anything less would be uncouth. And then I threw the rest of the jar on there, too.

Perhaps not the best final picture of the inside, but at this point, I was so elated that the thing had not failed catastrophically that I didn't really care.  So I present: Desseption, or Dessert Inception, or The Abomination.

All in all, the whole thing turned out better than I had hoped.  It was well received by the group, and I learned a bunch of things that I can use in future abominations.