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can I do anything with this stale cake?

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  • savingqueen
    savingqueen Posts: 1,715 Forumite
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    thanks a lot for all those ideas. :jStill haven't had time to make anything but will make bread and butter pudding when kids home from school today. Will let you know how it goes!
    zippychick wrote: »
    Hi Saving queen :D

    You could whizz it into sweet breadcrumbs and use to sprinkle over crumbles?

    few threads which should have ideas for you :)

    bread and butter pudding including chocoolate and banana versions

    Ideas for stale fruit cake

    Stale bread - what to do with it

    Good luck, let us know what you do , and I'll merge this later for you

    Zip :)
  • AnnaV
    AnnaV Posts: 531 Forumite
    Got half of the most delicious sponge cake DH got for his birthday, starting to go stale and would hate to waste it.
    Anna :beer:
  • mi_jardin
    mi_jardin Posts: 584 Forumite
    put custard on it and serve it for pudding! Custard hides a multitude if sins! :)
  • Kitchenbunny
    Kitchenbunny Posts: 2,085 Forumite
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    When I baked a batch of fairy cakes that were a bit overly done, I blitzed them into crumbs in the processor and mixed them with some buttercream and shaped into small balls. Then, I dipped them in chocolate and let them set - truffles. :)

    KB xx
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  • Turkishdreamer
    Turkishdreamer Posts: 464 Forumite
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    A couple of quick and easy options.

    Cut up and make into trifle sponges. Otherwise cut up and layer the bottom of a dish, top with ice cream and meringue, bake in oven - baked alaska.
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  • BOBS
    BOBS Posts: 2,871 Forumite
    OOO cake and custard - sounds yummy - long time since i had that!!
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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    Hi Anna,

    I warm it in the microwave and serve with custard too. There are lots more ideas on this thread:

    can I do anything with this stale cake?

    I'll add your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

    Pink
  • Hardup_Hester
    Hardup_Hester Posts: 4,800 Forumite
    Make trifle with it

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  • Turkishdreamer
    Turkishdreamer Posts: 464 Forumite
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    Hardup_Hester wrote: »
    Make trifle with it
    You use the cake to make the (trifle sponges bit). Then just add jelly, custard and cream. Simple as that.
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  • McKneff
    McKneff Posts: 38,857 Forumite
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    spread some jam on it, or put jam in the bottom of a basin, cover with the sponge and give a couple of minutes in the mw,
    hot jam sponge with custard, did it my self on Tuesday and it was blumming gorgeous.
    make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
    and we will never, ever return.
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