Here at the Sickos Committee, we’re big fans of weird ballpark and stadium food combinations. We love the gigantic portions or weird combinations of food and even things that seem really humanly impossible to eat while seated for a game. So in that spirit, our resident weird food connoisseur, the Corn Correspondent (Corn-espondent, as so many of you wish we called it, but damn it is too difficult to say out loud), Andy, will be doing a weekly food blog where he combines ingredients from two different teams randomly selected each week and gives you the recipe here each Friday during the season. Here is the Week Zero, aka Week Sick-0 Edition.

The Week Zero choice is….

Sam Houston State at Western Kentucky

Texas-style Pecan Pie Kentucky Stack Cake

Part of being an adult means you can eat your dessert first, so that’s what I decided to do this year. We’re starting the season with a dessert! While Bowling Green, KY, isn’t part of Appalachia, I wanted to go with a play on a stack cake, which is popular in the region. To give it a little Texas flair, we’re going to go with a pecan pie filling instead of the more traditional apple filling.

Stack cakes are often made in a cast iron pan, like a giant pancake, but they can also be made in the oven. That’s what I did for this one, baking in two 9-inch cake pans and cutting each cake in half to make 4 layers. For the cake I used Baker Recipes.

For the pecan pie filling, I turned to AllRecipes, making it on my stove instead of baking it in a pie crust. I just heated it up until everything was mixed and it started to thicken. Afterward, I let it cool slightly before filling my cake layers.

Because I wanted to be twee and extra, I cut out a football shape on my Cricut and used that as a stencil to dust powdered sugar. I thought it was a fun addition.

This was a pretty good cake. Pecan pie is one of my favorite pies, and the molasses cake was nice too. My house smelled like gingerbread cookies while they were baking, always a good smell! If I were to attempt this again, I would like to try it in the cast iron instead to see what a more pancakey cake would taste like.

Stay Tuned next week for another recipe on Friday for Week 1!!