Skip to main content

So much cake!!

One thing we learned quickly about cake making, is that after all that trimming and levelling of cake tiers, you're left with A LOT of leftover cake! People ask us all the time, "what do you do with all of those leftovers?". Well, first and foremost...we eat it. You'd think we'd get sick of cake after making it day after day, but somehow this hasn't happened yet, much to the disappointment of my healthy eating plan. Over time we've come up with a lot of creative ways to use the leftovers so we thought we'd share some of them here with you all :)

One thing we do with leftover cake scraps is make cake pops out of them. This is a super easy way to use up leftovers, and you're left with some adorable pops to give out at a party, etc. Just crumble the cake into crumbs, mix in some icing, roll into balls and refrigerate. Using melted chocolate, stick a lollipop stick into the chocolate, then into the cake ball and let set. Then dip the cake pops into more melted chocolate and cover with sprinkles, candy pearls, anything you want! Everyone LOVES these little guys and they're a great way to use up any amount of cake :). Here's some that we made for wedding favours.



Another idea (and we do this all the time) is to make a trifle with the scraps. You can do this with any kind of cake and there are a million different combinations you can mix in. For Father's Day this year, we decided to make a delicious and decadent chocolate trifle. It literally takes about 10 minutes to put together and everyone goes crazy for this treat when it's brought to parties, potlucks, etc!

Here's the recipe we use, but again, you can substitute anything! Choose your cake flavours, pudding flavours, icing flavours, sprinkles, etc. You can do no wrong! We've also included some store-bought short cuts if you don't have any of the homemade ingredients ready to go.

Chocolate Trifle:

One baked cake (9x13 size) or any cake scraps you have
1 box of instant chocolate pudding mix
1 container of chocolate frosting (or 1-2 cups of your favourite homemade frosting, we used our yummy chocolate fudge icing) melted in the microwave in a microwave-safe bowl
1 container cool whip (or homemade whipped cream)
1/2 cup Skor bits

Prepare pudding according to directions.

In a trifle bowl, tear up half the cake and layer along the bottom of the bowl.

Pour half of the icing over the cake as evenly as you can.

Pour half of the pudding on top of the icing and spread out to cover cake completely. Sprinkle with half of the skor bits.

Spread half of the cool whip over the pudding layer and spread evenly.

Repeat all layers one more time.

Finish by sprinkling the last of the skor bits on top (and I usually add some chocolate chips for good measure ;) )

And voila! The finished product. Probably won't win any style points, but trust me, it's DELICIOUS!!!

Enjoy!! :D








Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Little Bit of Everything!

So it looks like we've been slacking with our blog posts again! We must be into the busy wedding and party season :). We've had a VERY busy few weeks with some super fun (and delicious) results! First, we'll start with all of the fun party cakes that we've been making recently. First up, Bubble Guppies! Now we have to admit, before this order, we had absolutely no clue who or what the Bubble Guppies were. Luckily after doing some research, we were excited to find out that they were super cute ocean characters. We couldn't wait to get started making all of the fun characters and decorations to go with this theme! For this party we made Bubble Guppies cake pops, cupcakes and of course, a cake! We made this lucky two-year old's first birthday cake a year ago and couldn't believe that it had been a year already! We hope she liked her special birthday treats and can't wait for her third birthday! :) Next up was a retirement cake for a local fireman. An

Tinkerbell and Baby Showers!

We've said it before, but we LOVE making treats for children's parties! It's so much fun getting to incorporate our own twist on to the theme of the party. And when that theme is Tinkerbell, we get to bring out the super bright colours, glitter, and of course...magic! We had so much fun with this first party. It was for a first birthday party. The proud mom chose cupcakes for the occasion which meant we got to come up with all kinds of fun designs! For Tinkerbell we of course had to tie in the mischievous little fairy herself. We also created some sparkly magic wands, dainty little flowers and butterflies, glittery stars and of course, her cute little pom-pommed shoes! We started with our lemon cupcakes and chocolate cupcakes and covered them all in our deliciously sweet vanilla buttercream, tinted in all of Tinkerbell's favourite colours. Then we added on all of our magical little decorations and voila! Tinkerbell cupcakes ready for the birthday girl! Our

Retirements and Birthdays!

Happy Sunday everyone! Today's post features some of our recent retirement and birthday cakes. We LOVE doing these types of cakes as we're able to bring in elements of each person to truly personalize each cake. These cakes are a lot of work and take hours to complete all of the little handmade decorations but we absolutely love seeing the finished products and seeing and hearing reactions from our clients :). The first cake up is a retirement cake for a lucky guy who just bought a new truck. We recreated the truck out of cake and filled it to the brim with items that he loves. From golf clubs to guitars, spaghetti to baseball, this cake is truly a reflection of all of his favourites! We even included a garbage can full of work related items he'll no longer need :P Next up is a retirement cake for for an employee who plays bass guitar in a band. We created an almost life-size replica of his guitar in cake and included a passport and boarding pass to represen