What to do with leftover cake scraps

Yesterday – I wondered what everyone did. So I asked a question on social media. It was about what to do with leftover cake scraps.

I was astonished at the variety of answers.

So if you have ever looked for inspiration on just what to do with leftover cake scraps – here are no less than 30 ideas.

30 ideas

Eat them
Make Tiramisu
Give them to the kids, the grandkids, hubby, neighbours
Make chocolate gravy/sauce and pour over them
Eat with ice cream
Make into rum balls
Eat with milk like a bread pudding
Make Russian Cake
Add Jam and Buttercream and make into cake sandwich
Make Truffles
Make Cake Jars
Use as a building mass for 3D figures
Give them to the chickens or pigs
Crumble up, add to baking sheet, bake for 10 mins on 350 degrees, and use as decorative crumbs around a cake
Make Trifle
Make Cake Parfait
Make a Swiss Roll
Use as a base for a no-bake Cheesecake
Use for Shooters
Chocolate Truffles
Package and sell them if you are a bakery
Use for Stuffed cupcakes
Freeze them in bags, dated and use for truffles at later date
Cake Push Pops
Make Fig Cakes – mix crumbed mix with chocolate or cocoa, add vanilla or alcohol. Make a ball size of an egg. Cover in green marzipan shaped a little stem to resemble a fig.
Warm-up and serve with fresh cream
Petite fours
Cake crumbs, pudding plus cool whip
Cake crumbs into balls and dip in chocolate
Never have any left

I think this is a pretty definitive list for just what to do with those cake cut offs. Certainly it would make me think twice about putting a damp belt around a cake tin. Thus preventing the bake creating a dome, what with all these delicious ideas above!

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