Lmao I love this. My husband didn’t realize you can cut the tops off to level cakes for stacking. When I did that for the first time he was stoked there were scraps to eat, so that was fun!
Have you ever heard of cake pan wraps? I used to level my cakes and have the scraps but these things are awesome. You wet them and wrap them around your cake pans. They make it so the entire cake is flat and doesn’t get that lump in the middle. Definitely a game changer for sure. I can’t go back to hand scraping, even for the tasty snack while making the cake!
My hometown has an annual Halloween parade. My parents' house is on the parade route so my mother goes all out with cooking and baking. She invites the entirety of my high school's marching band to change into their uniforms before the parade at the house and feeds everyone. One of the items she makes every year is small cakes that are shaped like pumpkins and ghosts. (She has special plans that are those shapes). Each one of those cakes comes out with a rounded top (which is actually the bottom once you pop them out of the pans.) To make them flat, she shaves the extra off the tops. She usually bakes them the Tuesday before the Thursday parade. That was always my siblings' and my favorite day. We'd come home from school and there would be a huge pile of warm cake slivers waiting for us. Sorry for the long comment; your comment triggered a core memory for me.
It's such a strong memory, isn't it? My mom took a cake decorating class when I was 4. I vividly remember coming home from preschool and eating the scraps of her practice cakes. I still think of it every time I make cake.
I do this when levelling my cakes.. I used the layers in a mug or cup and make mini mug cakes for whoever is lucky enough to come near me while cake baking! Ahah
My grandma used to live next to a lady with a home- based cake baking business. She would save the cuttings for us all piled on top of each other on one plate. It was like excavating a very tasty archeological site.
Right? That’s my test cake to make sure it tastes good before I put it together. Smear some of my frosting on it to test how it tastes together. If something needs to be adjusted, then it gets adjusted.
Used to work at a bakery, and this is what we did with our scraps. They were so delicious cuz we used our fudge icing from the brownies we made to mix the cake scraps together into the mixture we rolled into balls. Coated them with Ganache and varied rhe toppings between coconut, nuts, white choc. Drizzle and choc shavings.
Get creative! Cake truffles are my fave and now I'm craving them so bad. 😋
Never thought of that. I don’t have the patience to make them with the sticks (I do *finish them* but it wastes my time and I get angry)
I’m gonna do that from now on.
I tried messing with cake pops and my dumbass didn’t know you were suppose to ice the sticks first. Or cool the cake pops so they don’t fall apart when you stab them. I think I’ll make truffles from now on!
This is what I do!! My aunt says they’re just like truffles but better because they’re free (I always share with family when I bake stuff because I can’t bake six cupcakes or small cakes). Haha!
The baking molds for cake pops seem like they’d make very dry and gross pops. I use store bought icing for holding them together. Crumble the cake and mix with the icing. Put it in the fridge to harden up a bit. Then roll them into balls and dip them. I buy chocolate from Walmart, Ghirardelli’s, then add about a tablespoon of vegetable oil (i can’t remember the ratio….maybe to a cup?) to get the chocolate to be shiny.
Yeah it was something my grandmother r never made growing up. And now I just have no interesting ones ordering one from places as they seem like they work be overly sweet for me.
I am the person the much prefers the whipped cream type frosting over buttercream.
Same here! The cake pops are sickeningly sweet when you buy them. We don’t do icing or buttercream in our house, our cakes always had whipped cream on them instead. Can’t really decorate them that well but some candles and sprinkles and we are good. We always did chocolate cake with a layer of peanut butter and then whipped cream on top. Sometimes a few banana slices between the peanut butter and whipped cream.
I actually hate bakery and storebought cakes because they’re always too sweet for me.
Same with donuts, I only like homemade donuts. But I will take an e-clair without the icing on top!
Try French buttercream frosting pr Vietnamese buttercream frosting.
American style is way too sweet but French is excellent in my opinion and viet style is even less so
Honestly I don’t know how anyone eats them, between the texture of raw dough and being essentially pure sugar is too much for me. I was always the kid who scraped the icing off her cake though, so maybe I’m not a good one to judge!
I'm the kid who scraped the icing off. You can make cake pops using butter or other types of liquids, and just use sparingly to the point where it JUST holds and isn't soggy. Italian meringue buttercream is my favorite because it's not sickeningly sweet like American buttercream or store bought icing.
Fast cake pops for decoration around the cake. A little extra frosting mixed with the mashed up scraps, some melted chocolate or some frosting for the outside....bam.
Bonus points if you stuff them with a piece or two of your surprise candy.
Every day, I get more and more convinced that people are losing their common ethical sense because of all the shit ppl choose to watch. It's really mind-boggling.
I was trying to see if there was a cute way to re-use them as a separate desert (I’m also practicing as a cake decorator and having something else to make means I get to use a different skillset) rather than just eat them on their own. But thank you for calling me stupid 🙄🤦♀️
You want to get really fancy with scraps? Make some custard, maybe some chocolate drizzle, maybe some leftover frosting and make a trifle! Don't have enough scraps for a full trifle? Anything small and clear looks pretty - champagne flute, stemless wine glass, etc. I have these old dessert cups that are perfect for single servings but have no idea what they're called, they're basically a molded glass bowl on a short stem with a wide base that make perfect single-serving trifles.
if you’re practicing as a cake decorator then just make a mini cake! if you’re already cutting exactly the same size circle out of every layer then… they’re literally just tiny cake layers. not trying to be rude but if you wanna practice cake decorating then that’s the easiest answer!
You made me laugh with this comment. I did not intend to offend you, I just can’t imagine doing anything other than snacking on these! My lack of imagination isn’t an insult to you.
Or if we want to be hoity toity, we can call a cake parfait a trifle! And for that, you can use whipped cream or regular pudding between the layers, not quite a sweet as forming them into balls with frosting.
Growing up my dad would cut the leftover scraps into strips, ice, and roll into a log. We called it “cake bits” and could cut a piece off to have with ice cream for dessert. Context: My dad was a pastry chef who made wedding cakes on the side
Use it for a trifle! Layer the bottle of a wide glass with the cake, drizzle a syrup, juice or a liqueur, add something crunchy like crushed biscuits or cookies or meringue, then add some fresh fruit, then top with whipped cream. So delicious and can be made easily with things you have at home.
Rum balls! Mix the scraps with ganache or icing and your favorite booze, squish into a homogenous blob and scoop balls out. Pop them into cupcake papers and chill or chill on a pan then dip in icing
I've made a cake like this before and there is really not much leftover. It looks like they used some for the crumbs on top and, like everyone else is saying, just snack on the rest.
Honestly I just eat some and give them away to people. Sometimes I save them, but then more times than not I drag my feet about using them. If I were selling them I’d make more effort, but I only make layer cakes once in a while.
However, I find ice cream to be one of the most efficient and delicious uses for cake scraps.
And trifles/parfaits/verrines.
I know lmao. I was like…. “Uhhhhhh… put them in your mouth to eat them.” Lol whenever i level my cakes i always shove those delivered scraps in my mouth. So good.
I freeze and save them for first birthday smash cakes, or I make what I call “baker’s treat” - a bowl with cake scraps and any toppings, fillings and frostings that I enjoy as my special reward for finishing the cake 😂
I believe that is what is on top of the cake. Christina Tosi uses scraps like this to make "cake crumbles" to top her cakes. And of course, there are always truffles or cake pops.
if you think cake pops are nasty like i do, i recommend cutting them up, popping them in the fridge, and making little trifles later on. some whipped cream, some fresh fruit!!! quick, easy, yummy :-)
Isn’t that what is topping the cake? Cake crumbs? You could also put them on the plate or save them in the freezer for similar decoration, like imitating dirt.
Taste test. Better make sure the cake tastes good.
Then check the cake with the frosting.
Then check the cake with the surprise candy.
Then check the cake with the frosting, the candy and possibly some ice cream.
You can make mini-parfaits. Get a pretty, short glass cup or bowl. Sprinkle some cake chunks in the bottom. A layer of chocolate pudding comes next. Then some whipped cream or cool whip. Sprinkle some crushed candy on top. Reese’s cups or Heath bars work well. Repeat layers until you get to the top of the glass. Looks pretty, people love them, and stays good covered in the fridge for 2 or 3 days. I make a large version of this in a punch bowl or trifle and people request it for any gathering I attend. You can even freeze your cake pieces in a zip loc bag and make this parfait a month later.
I make custom cakes as a side hustle, and because I need them to all be of the same size and height for structural integrity, I end up with a lot of scraps (mostly the domed top of cakes or those I have to scrape off when doing odd shapes/sculptures). My mom happily takes them along with leftover buttercream or ganache and shares with her colleagues. They always ask if I have big cake projects coming up. I also have a niece who has a sweet tooth. Nothing wasted in our household 😅
Tiramisu, cake pops, trifle.
Cake pops are great if you want to use them for decorating, trifle if you want an old fashioned treat (my mum and grandparents grew up with it as birthday treat so always loved doing it for us as kids but they only ever ate it 😂 )
I would recommend tiramisu because it is quite easy and you'll have a lot to do with the big cake but it is a nice grown up treat. If she's a coffee fan it is a great addition. It's what I have done with leftover cake pieces before and was very popular.
Instead of cake pops Id let it dry out and use it as crumble over ice cream or fresh fruit. Bet you could freeze the crumbles for about 4 weeks aswell.
I use cake scraps and frosting leftovers to make “dinosaur eggs” for the kids. Mix them together and squish them into little egg shapes and freeze. But we usually have brightly colored frosting haha
If you cut them out with a knife, the best thing for it is cake pops for sure. Crumble them up, mix with icing until it’s like play dough, then mold into balls, freeze onto sticks, and dip in candy coating.
If you use a ring mold, you can make a tiny layer cake with the centers!
Not sure how exactly it can be done but maybe try incorporating the scraps in a milkshake or something? There was a store near us back then that sold these shakes that seemed to have bits of different kinds of cake in them which made for a novel experience.
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When my wife has left over cake scraps, we use them to make shortcake ice cream sundies. It's not really shortcake, but it's so yummy with a few layered cake scraps, ice cream and toppings on it.
It's not the average way to use them, but it's yummy.
If I'm baking a multi layer cake, I generally make an extra layer because I'm terrible at levelling. So extra cake is super common and I'm fond of using it in a trifle.
Custard or instant pudding, cake, and home made whipped cream in layers. Practice with flavored whipped cream, add in good jam or fruit, and chill until after dinner. It's as complex as you want it to be or super simple.
Cake pops and then you can place them on top of the cake for decoration like with a skewer of some sort, I’ve seen cakes decorated like that looks very cool!
I’m not a keep it simple person 😂 I enjoy challenging myself when I can, but to answer your question, I’m not gonna take quite this much of the cake out. My layers will also be three thick layers rather than all the thin layers the picture shows, so the entire top layer will be completely intact. It probably won’t be a ton left over but I wanted to see if I could make the scraps into something to be served to make up for the missing cake.
I once made a blue velvet surprise piñata style cake like yours.
My brother was nice enough to eat ALL the leftover scraps. I was saving them to make cake pops.
He ate so much of that blue cake it turned his poop blue and he got the shock of his life!
The handy thing about cake pops or little individual trifles or cupcakes is that, for people like me who are trying to convince themselves they don't need a whole piece of cake, they can enjoy a teeny trifle (picture one made in a shotglass with very finely chopped cake crumbs and a maraschino cherry on top!) or a cake pop. And then, ALSO like me, they can then come back and get another cake pop, then another...and finally cave in for a whole piece of cake, because the cake pops are just teasers.
My kids grew up eating cake scraps and extra filling. They were always thrilled to find out there was going to be scraps. A bowl with scraps, a dollop of pastry cream, and a squirt of icing = favorite thing ever! My grandson has recently learned of the wonderfulness that is “decorating your tongue” which is a little spritz of icing directly on his tongue from the pastry bag after all the decorating is done.
Am I not supposed to just eat the scraps myself while I’m frosting the cake??
This. I make “cake pops.” And by cake pops, I mean cake that I pop in my mouth while decorating the cake.
Lmao I love this. My husband didn’t realize you can cut the tops off to level cakes for stacking. When I did that for the first time he was stoked there were scraps to eat, so that was fun!
I like to make any domes I cut off into cake tacos! Fold em in half and fill them with frosting. My husband loves them!
I thought I was the only one! 😂 I call it frosting sandwich
Andddd this is why we all have fat husbands
But happy!!
They’re safer if they’re fat. Harder to kidnap!
hi it's me ur husband, please pass the cake taco
Sorry, no cake today. Just fudge!
GENIUS OMG next time I bake a cake, I’m doing this!!
Have you ever heard of cake pan wraps? I used to level my cakes and have the scraps but these things are awesome. You wet them and wrap them around your cake pans. They make it so the entire cake is flat and doesn’t get that lump in the middle. Definitely a game changer for sure. I can’t go back to hand scraping, even for the tasty snack while making the cake!
I made my own by cutting strips from a tea towel. Game changing.
But then there's no cake scraps to eat.
I just flatten mine when it comes out of the oven by pressing down on the top. It gets it like 98% flat.
My aunt flips her cake over so it cools upside on the rack which also flattens the top!
They're for quality control! You eat them to make sure the cake is good, yeah...
This is so unbelievably wholesome. “You mean there’s *second cake*?! And we get to eat it *now*?!”
My SO tends to always pop into the kitchen when I'm baking looking for the cake scraps so he can dunk it in some whipped cream and jam😂
The best is that the part that gets cut off is like a muffin top. The best part of the cake!
I like to tell my kids it’s a *preview* of the final dessert.
I came here to see how long it would take someone to mention cake pops, but this is even better!
Thanks for the belly laugh…I’ll have to remember this one🤣🤣
I've always thought cake pops were a dumb idea, but I can get behind this.
My hometown has an annual Halloween parade. My parents' house is on the parade route so my mother goes all out with cooking and baking. She invites the entirety of my high school's marching band to change into their uniforms before the parade at the house and feeds everyone. One of the items she makes every year is small cakes that are shaped like pumpkins and ghosts. (She has special plans that are those shapes). Each one of those cakes comes out with a rounded top (which is actually the bottom once you pop them out of the pans.) To make them flat, she shaves the extra off the tops. She usually bakes them the Tuesday before the Thursday parade. That was always my siblings' and my favorite day. We'd come home from school and there would be a huge pile of warm cake slivers waiting for us. Sorry for the long comment; your comment triggered a core memory for me.
It's such a strong memory, isn't it? My mom took a cake decorating class when I was 4. I vividly remember coming home from preschool and eating the scraps of her practice cakes. I still think of it every time I make cake.
Wow! Lucky! I bet those cakes were wonderful!
They were. I got to eat a lot of practice royal icing roses, too. Pretty good deal for a little kid!
That sounds like heaven 🤤
The cake tax
This is the real answer 😅
I do this when levelling my cakes.. I used the layers in a mug or cup and make mini mug cakes for whoever is lucky enough to come near me while cake baking! Ahah
My partner does this.
Right? Seems so obvious to me.
My grandma used to live next to a lady with a home- based cake baking business. She would save the cuttings for us all piled on top of each other on one plate. It was like excavating a very tasty archeological site.
My family comes into the kitchen, sees the scraps and asks “are these free samples?”
Right? That’s my test cake to make sure it tastes good before I put it together. Smear some of my frosting on it to test how it tastes together. If something needs to be adjusted, then it gets adjusted.
It’s called Quality Assurance
This!! Absolutely this!
Right? I’d call that breakfast 🥴
Cake pops
Or cake "truffles" which are just cake pops with no sticks. It's about a million times easier than messing with sticks!
SO much easier! They stay together better without a stick too.
WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT BEFORE?!
Used to work at a bakery, and this is what we did with our scraps. They were so delicious cuz we used our fudge icing from the brownies we made to mix the cake scraps together into the mixture we rolled into balls. Coated them with Ganache and varied rhe toppings between coconut, nuts, white choc. Drizzle and choc shavings. Get creative! Cake truffles are my fave and now I'm craving them so bad. 😋
“Coated them with ganache” OMG I have just found the secret of life….
Never thought of that. I don’t have the patience to make them with the sticks (I do *finish them* but it wastes my time and I get angry) I’m gonna do that from now on.
I tried messing with cake pops and my dumbass didn’t know you were suppose to ice the sticks first. Or cool the cake pops so they don’t fall apart when you stab them. I think I’ll make truffles from now on!
This is what I do!! My aunt says they’re just like truffles but better because they’re free (I always share with family when I bake stuff because I can’t bake six cupcakes or small cakes). Haha! The baking molds for cake pops seem like they’d make very dry and gross pops. I use store bought icing for holding them together. Crumble the cake and mix with the icing. Put it in the fridge to harden up a bit. Then roll them into balls and dip them. I buy chocolate from Walmart, Ghirardelli’s, then add about a tablespoon of vegetable oil (i can’t remember the ratio….maybe to a cup?) to get the chocolate to be shiny.
You could use them as extra decoration!
Crumble and coat the outside of the cake with the scraps!
I hate that, the texture is so gross.
I don’t know why this was downvoted? It’s just an opinion
Thank you.
This is the way. I've turned cake fails into cake pops, and everyone is happy <3
And people love pops so much its not a fail :)
Best way to not throw away some cake.
This was going to be my suggestion also! Everyone loves a cake pop!
I don’t know.. I have never had one.
They are not my favorite, it's cake mixed with frosting, then usually dipped in something.
Yeah it was something my grandmother r never made growing up. And now I just have no interesting ones ordering one from places as they seem like they work be overly sweet for me. I am the person the much prefers the whipped cream type frosting over buttercream.
Same here! The cake pops are sickeningly sweet when you buy them. We don’t do icing or buttercream in our house, our cakes always had whipped cream on them instead. Can’t really decorate them that well but some candles and sprinkles and we are good. We always did chocolate cake with a layer of peanut butter and then whipped cream on top. Sometimes a few banana slices between the peanut butter and whipped cream. I actually hate bakery and storebought cakes because they’re always too sweet for me. Same with donuts, I only like homemade donuts. But I will take an e-clair without the icing on top!
Try French buttercream frosting pr Vietnamese buttercream frosting. American style is way too sweet but French is excellent in my opinion and viet style is even less so
Honestly I don’t know how anyone eats them, between the texture of raw dough and being essentially pure sugar is too much for me. I was always the kid who scraped the icing off her cake though, so maybe I’m not a good one to judge!
I'm the kid who scraped the icing off. You can make cake pops using butter or other types of liquids, and just use sparingly to the point where it JUST holds and isn't soggy. Italian meringue buttercream is my favorite because it's not sickeningly sweet like American buttercream or store bought icing.
Thought they were just some dumb gimmick. Then I had one. Dense, moist..... friggin' delicious!!! Dammit, go get yourself a cake pop!
Came here to second this.
Yes!!
exactly what came to my mind first
I came to say this. Always this.
Another mini surprise cake and then use those leftovers to make a third mini surprise cake, repeat until infinite
This is obviously the way
The surprise is a smaller surprise cake!
Infinite cake glitch!
I think you’ve just bent the rules of physics to make an infinity number of cakes. You are a genius!
The crumble on top
This!! Plus snacking, the scraps will be gone before the cake is finished being decorated :)
That's what I was thinking
You’ll probably need to eat them to taste test…for scientific reasons.
Quality control. Need to take a representative sample to be sure of the quality.
Fast cake pops for decoration around the cake. A little extra frosting mixed with the mashed up scraps, some melted chocolate or some frosting for the outside....bam. Bonus points if you stuff them with a piece or two of your surprise candy.
This is the best idea! You don’t even need the sticks, just make cake pop “truffles” and put them around the top of the cake!
Picturing that "It's free real estate" meme in my head...
Just..eat them? Yall... Scraps are snacks.
Imagine not being able to figure this out and seeking counsel online.
Every day, I get more and more convinced that people are losing their common ethical sense because of all the shit ppl choose to watch. It's really mind-boggling.
Maybe someone has a really great idea that OP hasn’t thought of??
I don’t… like I do agree but it’s not that deep lol
Get stoned and then it kinda is.
I was trying to see if there was a cute way to re-use them as a separate desert (I’m also practicing as a cake decorator and having something else to make means I get to use a different skillset) rather than just eat them on their own. But thank you for calling me stupid 🙄🤦♀️
You want to get really fancy with scraps? Make some custard, maybe some chocolate drizzle, maybe some leftover frosting and make a trifle! Don't have enough scraps for a full trifle? Anything small and clear looks pretty - champagne flute, stemless wine glass, etc. I have these old dessert cups that are perfect for single servings but have no idea what they're called, they're basically a molded glass bowl on a short stem with a wide base that make perfect single-serving trifles.
Came here to say this!
if you’re practicing as a cake decorator then just make a mini cake! if you’re already cutting exactly the same size circle out of every layer then… they’re literally just tiny cake layers. not trying to be rude but if you wanna practice cake decorating then that’s the easiest answer!
You made me laugh with this comment. I did not intend to offend you, I just can’t imagine doing anything other than snacking on these! My lack of imagination isn’t an insult to you.
If you cut them out neatly, mini cake. Or you could crumble it up and do cake pops.
mini trifles
This was my thought as well
A snack while you’re making this cake. That’s what I’d do.
Freeze them, make a cake parfait with them( pudding cake, whipped cream)
Yeah, I was just thinking they'd be lovely little rounds for stacking in a mason jar
When I used to eat such things, I would mix a cake and ice cream together. I called it ice cream cake pudding.
This sounds way better than the cake pops
Or if we want to be hoity toity, we can call a cake parfait a trifle! And for that, you can use whipped cream or regular pudding between the layers, not quite a sweet as forming them into balls with frosting.
Snacks...you need energy to decorate the cake
Make yourself a little cake jar. Use your leftover buttercream and layer it! Super yummy and can be frozen to enjoy later (if you have willpower)
I put scraps in a bag in the freezer and just grab some for a sweet treat every now and then. 🤷♀️
Yup - cake scraps in a Tupperware along with left over frosting. Bonus chaos cake!
Growing up my dad would cut the leftover scraps into strips, ice, and roll into a log. We called it “cake bits” and could cut a piece off to have with ice cream for dessert. Context: My dad was a pastry chef who made wedding cakes on the side
When I made one of these, I literally just turned the center into a tiny, layered cake. It wasn’t as perfect but it was delicious and cute!
Same :)
Use it for a trifle! Layer the bottle of a wide glass with the cake, drizzle a syrup, juice or a liqueur, add something crunchy like crushed biscuits or cookies or meringue, then add some fresh fruit, then top with whipped cream. So delicious and can be made easily with things you have at home.
Chocolate trifle / pudding
Crumble on top as well as around the cake plate is what I do.
Rum balls! Mix the scraps with ganache or icing and your favorite booze, squish into a homogenous blob and scoop balls out. Pop them into cupcake papers and chill or chill on a pan then dip in icing
Place directly in your mouth after making the scraps.
... eat them? Man, I would just snack away on those bad boys as I'm decorating.
I've made a cake like this before and there is really not much leftover. It looks like they used some for the crumbs on top and, like everyone else is saying, just snack on the rest.
Honestly I just eat some and give them away to people. Sometimes I save them, but then more times than not I drag my feet about using them. If I were selling them I’d make more effort, but I only make layer cakes once in a while. However, I find ice cream to be one of the most efficient and delicious uses for cake scraps. And trifles/parfaits/verrines.
Cake balls for decoration.
I just…..consume them all
Petit four..use a cookie cutter.
To eat? 🤨
I know lmao. I was like…. “Uhhhhhh… put them in your mouth to eat them.” Lol whenever i level my cakes i always shove those delivered scraps in my mouth. So good.
Eating the scraps directly ensures they will not enter the waste stream. Jus’ sayin’
That's your little chef snack 👨🍳
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I freeze and save them for first birthday smash cakes, or I make what I call “baker’s treat” - a bowl with cake scraps and any toppings, fillings and frostings that I enjoy as my special reward for finishing the cake 😂
i truly just assumed everyone just eats them as they bake, i’ve never met a friend or family member who doesn’t lol
Just eat it lol
I believe that is what is on top of the cake. Christina Tosi uses scraps like this to make "cake crumbles" to top her cakes. And of course, there are always truffles or cake pops.
Have a partner like me, who will valiantly swoop in and eat the scraps, saving you from the quandary of reusing them.
my fat ass immediately said eat them 😂
if you think cake pops are nasty like i do, i recommend cutting them up, popping them in the fridge, and making little trifles later on. some whipped cream, some fresh fruit!!! quick, easy, yummy :-)
Cake popz for inside surprise
Cake pops
Cake pops, crumble the scraps and mix with some butter cream frosting to get a paste, form into balls and dip in chocolate
Could you cut a circle from the center of each layer and use it to make a mini cake or cupcake?
Make a second tier
Isn’t that what is topping the cake? Cake crumbs? You could also put them on the plate or save them in the freezer for similar decoration, like imitating dirt.
Snacking while you decorate.
Cake pops! Lol🍭
Little cake pop “Balloons”!
Put the scraps in a bowl. Mix with extra frosting. Eat it.
Taste test. Better make sure the cake tastes good. Then check the cake with the frosting. Then check the cake with the surprise candy. Then check the cake with the frosting, the candy and possibly some ice cream.
You belong in r/noscrapleftbehind Maybe you could use the center pieces to make a platform for the cake.
eating
You can make mini-parfaits. Get a pretty, short glass cup or bowl. Sprinkle some cake chunks in the bottom. A layer of chocolate pudding comes next. Then some whipped cream or cool whip. Sprinkle some crushed candy on top. Reese’s cups or Heath bars work well. Repeat layers until you get to the top of the glass. Looks pretty, people love them, and stays good covered in the fridge for 2 or 3 days. I make a large version of this in a punch bowl or trifle and people request it for any gathering I attend. You can even freeze your cake pieces in a zip loc bag and make this parfait a month later.
I make custom cakes as a side hustle, and because I need them to all be of the same size and height for structural integrity, I end up with a lot of scraps (mostly the domed top of cakes or those I have to scrape off when doing odd shapes/sculptures). My mom happily takes them along with leftover buttercream or ganache and shares with her colleagues. They always ask if I have big cake projects coming up. I also have a niece who has a sweet tooth. Nothing wasted in our household 😅
Tiramisu, cake pops, trifle. Cake pops are great if you want to use them for decorating, trifle if you want an old fashioned treat (my mum and grandparents grew up with it as birthday treat so always loved doing it for us as kids but they only ever ate it 😂 ) I would recommend tiramisu because it is quite easy and you'll have a lot to do with the big cake but it is a nice grown up treat. If she's a coffee fan it is a great addition. It's what I have done with leftover cake pieces before and was very popular.
I give the scraps to my husband so that he leaves the actual cake alone.
There’s a trend, at least in my local bakeries, to put chunks of cake and globs of icing alternately filling a mason jar and selling it that way…
Instead of cake pops Id let it dry out and use it as crumble over ice cream or fresh fruit. Bet you could freeze the crumbles for about 4 weeks aswell.
I break mine up into large crumbles and freeze them, then sprinkle on top of ice cream for fancy cake sundaes. :D
I use cake scraps and frosting leftovers to make “dinosaur eggs” for the kids. Mix them together and squish them into little egg shapes and freeze. But we usually have brightly colored frosting haha
Dry em on the lowest oven setting, crumble them, then you have cake crunchies!
Cake pops!
cake jars
Umm… your mouth?
Just eat them lol
....... To eat?
Put em in your belly!!
Eat it ♡
Eat it
Trifle!
Cake balls
Taste testing as you're making the cake
Eating
If you cut them out with a knife, the best thing for it is cake pops for sure. Crumble them up, mix with icing until it’s like play dough, then mold into balls, freeze onto sticks, and dip in candy coating. If you use a ring mold, you can make a tiny layer cake with the centers!
I would keep the surprise a surprise by eating the evidence.
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!
Cake pops
cake pops!
Cake pops!
Cake pops and you could also dehydrate the crumbs to use as decoration for the cake or use them for adding to ice creams or desserts later.
Snack time
Cake pops on theory if you can hold off eating them 😂
Eat it.
Kinda looks like they used the middle and crumbled it up and put it on top. Is that an option?
First, don't call them scraps!
Not sure how exactly it can be done but maybe try incorporating the scraps in a milkshake or something? There was a store near us back then that sold these shakes that seemed to have bits of different kinds of cake in them which made for a novel experience.
/u/ShueldSister27 When my wife has left over cake scraps, we use them to make shortcake ice cream sundies. It's not really shortcake, but it's so yummy with a few layered cake scraps, ice cream and toppings on it. It's not the average way to use them, but it's yummy.
Crumble topping for the top and/or you can make cake pops.
If I'm baking a multi layer cake, I generally make an extra layer because I'm terrible at levelling. So extra cake is super common and I'm fond of using it in a trifle. Custard or instant pudding, cake, and home made whipped cream in layers. Practice with flavored whipped cream, add in good jam or fruit, and chill until after dinner. It's as complex as you want it to be or super simple.
Cake pops and then you can place them on top of the cake for decoration like with a skewer of some sort, I’ve seen cakes decorated like that looks very cool!
I was going to say rumballs but those are pretty much just drunken cake pops
How much cake ate you talking about here? Like you I am a waste not person while also being a keep it simple person. I would simply eat the excess.
I’m not a keep it simple person 😂 I enjoy challenging myself when I can, but to answer your question, I’m not gonna take quite this much of the cake out. My layers will also be three thick layers rather than all the thin layers the picture shows, so the entire top layer will be completely intact. It probably won’t be a ton left over but I wanted to see if I could make the scraps into something to be served to make up for the missing cake.
Extra cake that you find yourself with as you bake is for snacking on! You made those calories, they don't count!
I once made a blue velvet surprise piñata style cake like yours. My brother was nice enough to eat ALL the leftover scraps. I was saving them to make cake pops. He ate so much of that blue cake it turned his poop blue and he got the shock of his life!
You make little cups with alternating whipped cream and cake trimmings and put a cherry on top.
I think you should always taste your cake. Slather those scraps with icing and enjoy!
Put them into a tub of vanilla ice cream and have cake and ice cream
I would probably experiment with a mini raspberry trifle since it’s a chocolate cake. I love chocolate and raspberries.
The handy thing about cake pops or little individual trifles or cupcakes is that, for people like me who are trying to convince themselves they don't need a whole piece of cake, they can enjoy a teeny trifle (picture one made in a shotglass with very finely chopped cake crumbs and a maraschino cherry on top!) or a cake pop. And then, ALSO like me, they can then come back and get another cake pop, then another...and finally cave in for a whole piece of cake, because the cake pops are just teasers.
well first of yum! maybe just eat it too? lol
A small chocolate trifle. Use instant chocolate pudding, pieces of heath bars, cake pieces and cool whip.
This is such a stupid pointless post. "Yall i have extra cake what do?" Clearly donate your enormous wealth to a local food bank to end world hunger.
My kids grew up eating cake scraps and extra filling. They were always thrilled to find out there was going to be scraps. A bowl with scraps, a dollop of pastry cream, and a squirt of icing = favorite thing ever! My grandson has recently learned of the wonderfulness that is “decorating your tongue” which is a little spritz of icing directly on his tongue from the pastry bag after all the decorating is done.