Rename the Lame Name Dessert Game!
Contest time! Name my birthday dessert and get a cookbook!
I bake myself a birthday cake each year because I love sugar, I love to bake, and I always want something so strange that no one else wants to bake it. Last year it was a Smores Cake Roll, a complicated recipe from In the Sweet Kitchen, my favorite baking book of the moment. Graham cracker sheet cake, marshmallow filling, chocolate ganache. Woooof.
This year I’m making a recipe from an old friend. It’s a meringue shell 
enriched with toasted pecans, chocolate chips and Ritz cracker crumbs, baked to dry it out and firm it up
, then filed with strawberries in sweetened whipped cream.
Deliciousness itself.
But it needs a new name. It’s true that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but it wouldn’t sell as well. This dessert has two names, and neither describes it well. My friend’s family has always called Chocolate Nut Berry Pie, which is unappealing as a potential flavor combination. Also, this dessert is only a pie in the sense that it’s in a pie plate.
The other name is its original name, given by one of the cookbook greats, maybe Marian Burros or Fannie Farmer or Marian Cunningham. She called it Pinch Pie. Also not a good fit — it’s not a pie, and you can’t make it in a pinch, because it includes fresh strawberries, nuts, soda crackers, whipped cream and pecans.
This dessert needs to sound as beautiful as it tastes.
See the dilemma? What can we call it?
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Whipped strawberry delight? Pecan Meringue Berry Tart? Cracked Pecan Strawberry Treat? Sorry, I’m terrible at this - good luck, I’ll be curious to see what you can come up with.
pecan meringue chocolate and strawberry torte
if i had a restaurant that’s what i’d be
but i hate things that are too cute and catchy
because i am a bore
i’m thinking lesley or ceeelcee are witty and will come up with the perfect name
no pressure, guys
Man, I don’t know, but it sounds good and rich. Chocolate Strawberry Cream Torte is about the best I can do. I know that if I saw that name in a cookbook, I’d certainly stop to look at the recipe!
Strawberry Dream Meringue Cake? Torte would work, but is it actually a torte? I’m not sure I know the definition of a torte. Layers? I couldn’t find a way to add the nuts and chocolate without making it too long.
“Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud” Berry ChocolateTorte.
friendship stawberry chocolate dream
Oh these are great — keep them coming, cuz the contest lasts all week while I pick the appropriate cookbook for the skilled and talented winner.
I would call it something like Gitchyurhanzoffmai pie. Heh.
Chocolate meringue with fresh berry cream
How about Pink Passion?
Strawberry mousse in a chocolate chip cookie meringue shell or any variation on that
Chocolate Berry Dream
or
Chocolate Berry Dream with Pecan Crumb Crust
or
Chocolate, Pecan & Strawberry Meringue Pie
I think you should name it Pink Loves Brown or Pink and Brown Pudding. [Pudding in the English sense, ya know?]
“It’s The Ritz” Creamy Chocolate and Berry cake/torte/pie (choose whichever best describes the dessert)
It looks yuuummmyyy! Good luck with the naming.
Strawberry-Merengue Chocolate-Graham Creation
Chocolate Strawberry Delight,
Chocolate Strawberry Whipped Delight,
Scrumptous Sweet Strawberry Surprise — the surprise ingredient — soda crackers!
Wow — these are so good! So creative. You can enter as often as you have a good idea, so keep ‘em coming!
I like Sarah’s suggestion: “Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud”
Cindy? Anyone know how to get “ahold” of Cindy? She’s one of the winners and her link isn’t working.