Is there a pudding I can make with leftover rather dry chocolate cake?

[sethstarkaddersmum]

there must be!
something involving pouring alcohol over it?
or could I do something sort of bread-and-butter pudding style but with cake?

Instant Chocolate trifle?

Slice up the sponge are place it on the bottom of a bowl.

Get a couple of tins of black cherries and pour the juice all over the sponge. Add some brandy at this point if you want)

Tip the cherries on top of the wet sponge.

Make up some custard, melt a bar of chocolate and mix the two together.

Pour the chocolate trifle over the fruit.

Put into the fridge for about an hour.

Pour cream over the custard.

Grate chocolate over the cream and add toasted flaked almonds.

Delicious, and very, very bad for you!

and place it

a variation on a bombe?

thank you.
dh would definitely go for that trifley thing

BAileys trifle.

chop up cake, slosh over baileys, tin of custard, cread.
yummyyumola.

I fear attempting to use up this leftover cake will turn out to be a false economy....

You could combine my recipe with YuleLog's and make a black cherry, chocolate and baileys trifle! Yummmmmmmeeeeeee.

Baileys, no! Sugar syrup with a bottle dash of kirsch. Or sweet sherry.

Black forest trifle.

Delia's cheats chocolate trifle everytime for me: www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/desserts/quickly-does-it/cheats-chocolate-trifle.html

well that was the best trifle I've ever had.

dh got some brandy and cointreau and burnt the alcohol off the poured it over the sponge. Layer of tinned mandarins (we couldn't find cherries), tinned custard and whipped cream.

thank you for all the ideas

I love tinned mandarins - choc and orange trifle. Yum!