I know leftover cake is a bit of a foreign concept in most cases, but after making the Vegan Chocolate Cake the other day, we had loads left over. We could of course just sit down and eat it, but we had one of those days here today and I decided my kids and I needed a party for three. It was misty and cold and overcast for most of the day too, so we had to bring the beach indoors.
I recently bought these fun bucket and spade silicone cups that you can bake your cakes in, but I thought we could go with the cake pop idea instead.
At least it gave my kids something to do rather than bicker and argue for a few minutes!
There are no specific amount here because, well, it’s leftover cake!
Roughly, though – half a cake, a small amount of icing sugar, and a sand-coloured biscuit and you’re set.
Put equal amounts of butter and icing powder in a mixing bowl and mix till it looks like icing, a minute or two is normally sufficient. (Thermomix: 2 mins/speed 4) A good start is 50g butter and 50g icing sugar.
Add the cake to the bowl and crumb by hand or in the Thermomix, mix at speed 5 for 30 seconds.
Spoon the mixture into the buckets and squish it flat to compact it.
In a clean bowl, crumb some sandy-coloured biscuits – in the Thermomix, that’s 10 seconds on speed 5. I used the honey-waffle biscuits, but anything that colour will do and you need only one or two biscuits per bucket.
Spoon the ‘sand’ over the compacted cake – it’s a bit like cake pop consistency – and stick your spade in it.
With the left over left overs we made cake pops by forming balls and rolling it around in the sandy coloured biscuit crumbs before putting them on sticks. I popped a little love note in a jar for each of my girls for a ‘message in a bottle’, put the cake pops in and there we have it:
Left over cake for a party of three (or however many you need!)
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Well, that’s certainly a unique way of making cake, I’ve never seen that before! 🙂 My two would love that, they’d think it great fun! 🙂
Thanks Wendy 🙂 My two thought it was great too 😉