What to do with heavy carrot cake?

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I made a carrot cake yesterday from an American recipe online. It tastes ok but it didn’t rise properly so has the density and weight of a discus. What can I do with it? Chop it up and make a sort of rocky road? Could probably literally use it as a paving slab.

Have it with custard as a pudding?

Treat it as a fruit cake/Xmas cake and eat it with cheese, or like a malt loaf and slice it thinly and spread it with butter. I love stodgy heavy cake.

Chop into small portions and freeze, serve with tea/coffee.

I agree. Warm with custard. Or put into a trifle.

Mmm, custard, cheese and butter. You are my kind of people.

Yes, you've actually made sticky carrot pudding. Well done. Serve with custard or caramel sauce.

Good creamy frosting, lots of it

Small portions? Obvs not you Dozer

I did actually put lemon buttercream on because I didn’t have any cream cheese. It is very lemony and tastes like it belongs on a different cake.
I will scrape it off.
Sticky carrot pudding 😍 Yes! Serving it hot solves all my problems.
Thank you everyone?

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Right will go for dog walk after dinner but before pudding because I think I won’t be able to move after buttered sticky caramel carrot cake and custard. Plan.

"Small portions" indeed! What a daft idea.

I'd usually go for custard myself, but might go badly with the scrapings of the lemon! So, how about lashings of ice cream while we still have warm weather? Treat it like a brownie.

Dense cakes are my forte, I tend to just ignore the fact they're a disaster and plough in anyway. But custard makes everything better of course.

A ton of cream with each slice? Cream solves everything......

Suggested small portions because unfortunately I have a longstanding binge eating problem and if for example the DC bake I find this approach, freezing stuff in portion sizes, helps me.

Apologies @Dozer, didn't mean to trip up like that. Hope you're getting on okay with it, structuring your food is definitely harder in lockdown...

Mix with cream cheese frosting and make cake pops?

If you can’t be arsed, and I don’t blame you, as life is usually far too short to make cake pops, I’d go with custard as above.

If you wanted to go really wild, could you fry it in butter first? (I’m imagining it has the texture of Christmas pudding here).

Sorry, Dozer, I was too flippant. I absolutely should be freezing it in small portions. I’m just not feeling very sensible at the moment

Lemon and custard - you’ve got me thinking; is it wrong? I’ve had lemon sponge pudding with custard...

Custard.
Definitely

This can't be a genuine question...? What to do with cake?

Surely the density of the cake just means you adjust your cake: ice cream or custard ratio?

Honestly OP!

'What to do with cake' ...!
Pft!!

Send it to me?

We do loads of baking and when this happens we do as others have suggested and have it warm with custard or crumble it up to have with ice cream

Don’t think anyone is feeling like being sensible at the moment!

Carrot cake trifle? One big, or mini ones.

Small layer carrot cake bits, creme with sherry, brandy or whiskey, toasted nuts on top?

Some sort of trifle I think. Or hot with ice cream/cream/custard/choc sauce/caramel/other sauce to taste.

But pudding rather than a cake.