What to do with a cake that has fallen apart

If the cake is burnt scrape off the top burnt part before using the overbaked cake for other recipes. More brownie than cake like.

I cant think of a flavor that doesnt work well with this treatment.

What to do with a cake that has fallen apart. Here are some of the delicious ways you can repackage this baking tragedy into something youll be happy to eat. Cube the cake grab some berries whip some cream. Drop your failed cakes into a large bowl.

Crush with your hands or spoon to crumble the cake into small pieces. Add frosting into the bowl. To make a trifle simply take those pieces of broken cake you can use brownies too and layer them in a glass bowl or individual glasses with your choice of pudding whipped cream fruit chocolate shavings caramel syrup andor nuts.

You can also sprinkle the cake layers with flavored liqueur for extra oomph. If a cake has been sitting out and its falling apart you could also freeze it and unfreeze it. This can either make it more brittle and itll fall to pieces or it will stick together due to the frozen nature of the cake.

This works better with custard or filled cakes and not just fluffy frosted ones if those fall apart I suggest the cake balls too. Just a Tim Hortons TimBit or a Donut Hole from anywhere else itll satisfy. If the cake doesnt come out right away run a clean knife around the outside edge to release it.

After the cake is baked let it cool for a while so that the cake doesnt crumble and falls apart when you take it upside down. While cooling it remember to place your cake. Instead place the cooling rack upside down on the pan.

Turn them over as one unit and remove the pan. The cake is now upside down on the cooling rack. Then if the cake has any dome at all put another cooling rack back on the cake and turn it over as one unit again.

Heres a solution. If you find you underbaked your cake soon after removing it from the oven and its still hot pop it back in and bake it at least another 10 to 15 minutes more. Remember to do the doneness test before removing from the oven and cooling.

Cover the top with foil to prevent the tops from over browning if it has browned already. Remove the entire portion of the cake that sunk and make a surprise-inside cake pictured above by filling it with candy and then topping it with frosting. Pie fillings or fruit jams would make a tasty addition to a cake that sunk in the middle.

When the cakes were done in the oven I followed the instructions for letting them cool in their pans for 10 minutes and then flipping them out of the pans onto wire racks. And then this happened. It was 1100 PM and this red velvet cake was due to my office in 9 hours.

Whats an amateur baker to do. First I ate some of the crumbles. But lets face it no one was going to miss those crumbles.

I wasnt going to be able to put my humpty dumpty cake. Use any frosting that doesnt have crumb bits in it to make frosting cookies. If the cake is burnt scrape off the top burnt part before using the overbaked cake for other recipes.

If the cake is dry dont worry about it at all. Most of the recipes for leftover cake add lots of. If the cake dropped too low to level and work as a layer consider repurposing it.

Leftover cake can be used as an ice cream topping for example or as the base of homemade cake pops. Unfortunately if your fallen cake is under-baked and still batter-like in the middle you. If your cake falls or has a sink-hole in the center A.

Fill with curd pudding whipped cream or frost the best you can and fill with candy. Trifle is the answer to salvaging any fallen cake. The cake tastes great.

More brownie than cake like. Not in any way worthy of a cake plate but plenty worthy of eating. So heres the idea.

Break the cake into pieces slices if you want and layer them in a trifle bowl or other dish with tall sides with pudding whipped cream fruit whatever you like. Pudding is a terrific dish to make with an imperfect cake. Just break it up into bite-sized pieces and use it in place of the bread in a pudding or apple Brown Betty recipe.

I cant think of a flavor that doesnt work well with this treatment. It is also important to cook the cake for the recommended amount of time making adjustments for substituted ingredients and to avoid jostling the cake while it bakes or cools. Cakes fall as they cool sometimes so make sure to put the cake in a safe place.

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Forum- Recipe Collection- Cakes Cookies and Muffins. Cityofgold Wed Jul 20 2011 1054 am. I am supposed to make a beautiful centerpiece dessert for a kiddush this week.

I do wilton cake decorating and all that stuff I made 2 round white cakes. I foolishly swirled in way too much cinnamon struesel with the result. Cake crumbles can be reason enough to celebrate if it means turning them into cake pops.

You start with freshly baked cake that you crumble into fine crumbs. If you have cake that has broken into odds and ends of various sizes break them up into smaller workable pieces. To these crumbs add cream cheese powdered sugar butter and milk that you have whipped together.

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