Candy Mountain

For my brother's birthday this year, I made him 2 pies (strawberry rhubarb and apple) baked inside of 2 red velvet cake, frosted with cream cheese frosting. For Thanksgiving, I baked him 10 pies. As you can tell, I went a bit overboard both times.  For Christmas, he started sending me all sorts of things he wanted made.  I finally told him he only got one dessert, so to think long and hard about what it was before the decision was made.  Here is what I was sent:

So, being the idiot that I am, and with much assist from my mother and sister, we printed off the schematic and went to the grocery store. Oh, he also said I got bonus points for chocolate chip cookies and for pecan pie goop. Well, we purchased everything on the list.  The very next day, I got to baking.  In a 9" cake pan, I made 1/2 or a brownie box, 1/4 of a red velvet cake box, 1/2 of my bisquick magic crustless pumpkin pie, and a dozen break and bake chocolate chip cookies.  I set them all to cool on the counter, then went out for lunch. 

Once I got back, the assembling began.  I lined a 9" cake pan with plastic wrap and layered: brownie, vanilla ice cream (used a hot knife and cut it from the box in slices), mini ice cream sandwiches, caramel sauce, hot fudge sauce, hazelnuts, then LOFTHOUSE COOKIES (I couldn't find the oreos at the time), pecan pie goop and pecans (Emily had made some of the goop and I plopped it on there), and a giant chocolate chip cookie.  I pushed down on all the layers to make it nice and solid, wrapped in more plastic wrap, and threw it in the freezer.

For layer 2, I lined another 9" cake pan with plastic wrap and started from the top down.  Crushed snickers started it all, then slices of vanilla ice cream, crushed butterfinger, some cream cheese frosting (cream cheese, butter, vanilla, powdered sugar), the thin red velvet cake, reeses peanut butter cups, ice cream, gummy bears, gummy worms, gummy dinosaurs, and gummy fish (they were a bit out of order, but for the purpose of stacking, they had to go here), then regular sized cookies and cream ice cream sandwiches. Yet again, this was all squished with plastic wrap and put in the freezer.

On Christmas night, assembly took place.  I pulled on the plastic wrap and lifted out the 1st layer and then added the 2nd layer (which I flipped so as to follow the diagram).  I put on the layer of frozen pumpkin pie and oreos that I finally found in a hidden bag in the house.  Emily and Mom were working on the whipped cream. It was misbehaving.  It was going to be both the mousse and the whipped cream, but everything started to melt in Candy Mountain.  I poured chocolate sauce and caramel all over the oreos. Mom plopped fresh whipped cream on top. Sprinkles and one cherry topped it all. 

Here is Candy Mountain, complete with Charlie the Unicorn

Slicing it open.

Here are all the glorious layers

Faintly melted.  At this point in time, it was 7" tall.

In the end, it was only missing chocolate mousse, but did have the bonus of chocolate chip cookie, lofthouse cookie, as well as gummy fish, worms, and dinosaurs.  It has to be sliced with a bread knife that is heated in hot water.  We decided that while it was delicious, the gummy items should not have been in the dessert. They are too hard to cut through and chew, and just not very delicious amongst everything.

Joel (my brother) called a truce.  No more crazy desserts for a while!  He wrote me today to tell me that the guys at work today ate some more of Candy Mountain, but that Candy Mountain fought back. 

(I named it Candy Mountain, with thoughts of the following youtube clip: Charlie goes to Candy Mountain)