slight cake disaster!

stargirl73

Hi all, hoping you can help rescue a crumbly cake! I baked a chocolate cake in a bowlthis afternoon to get a dome shape for my son's birthday cake. It came out quite well, but as I tried to level off the bottom it all crumbled! ! I am wondering if it would work to crumble it all and mix with a little frosting and mold back in the bowl again, before icing it? Or does that just sound like a bit of a disaster?! But if not, what frosting would you recommend?
Hope someone has a bright idea, am terribly stressed by the whole thing!
Thanks in advance

scaredy_cat

if you do a quite loose buttercream mix and spread it thinly over the cake, no worrying about making it look pretty, put the cake in the fridge to firm up, then do a second layer of buttercream frosting.

http://www.wilton.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=132266

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_8299916_keep-cake-crumbling-frosting.html

krlyr

That's how you'd make a cake pop - crumbled cake with buttercream. But they're a little sickly in small doses, not sure how nice they'd be as one big cake!
One way I've salvaged fallen-apart cake is to layer it (in a glass bowl, for visual effect) with chocolate ganache and Maltesers, Kitkats, etc. Microwaved before serving so it's warm through - yum!

stargirl73

Thanks for the linkies

stargirl73

krlyr wrote: »

That's how you'd make a cake pop - crumbled cake with buttercream. But they're a little sickly in small doses, not sure how nice they'd be as one big cake!
One way I've salvaged fallen-apart cake is to layer it (in a glass bowl, for visual effect) with chocolate ganache and Maltesers, Kitkats, etc. Microwaved before serving so it's warm through - yum!

Sounds delish! But this cake has to be a castle.....on a hill!

GinaG3

For future reference if you've already tried other suggestions you could mix with thawed vanilla ice cream, and refreeze in a cling wrapped bowl (you cling all the inside with enough overhang to wrap over the top swell) to get your dome then knock out and unwrap when solid and pour over melted chocolate with some berries/crushed biscuit/similar on top for decoration. A similar take on a ice cream dome cake.