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piecaken

piecaken noun: a pie baked inside a cake.

piecaken: a pie baked inside a cake
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Noun

piecaken (countable and uncountable, plural piecakens)

  1. A pie baked inside a cake.
    • 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.2015 November 27, James Werrell, “Some combinations are best left apart”, in The Herald, volume 144, number 331, page 7A
    • 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).2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a flagel with cream cheese, please”, in Tenafly Suburbanite, page 11

Examples of piecaken in a sentence

  • 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.2021, Kathleen Bridge, A Fatal Feast, Beyond the Page Publishing, →ISBN:
  • 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.2021 May 2, Miami Herald, volume 118, number 230, page 19T:

Forms of piecaken

pluralpiecakens

Origin of piecaken

Blend of pie + cake + turducken.

Questions about piecaken

What does piecaken mean?
Piecaken means a pie baked inside a cake.
How do you use piecaken in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is piecaken?
Piecaken is a noun.
What is the plural of piecaken?
The plural of piecaken is piecakens.

Words near piecaken in the dictionary

  1. piebaldness
  2. piebalds
  3. pieboy
  4. pieboys
  5. piecake
  6. piecaken
  7. piecakens
  8. piecakes
  9. piecard
  10. piecards
  11. piece

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