broken Christmas cake - what can I do with it?

[camdancer]

I made a rectangular Christmas cake thinking I could cut it up to make little cakes. But it all broke when I tried to turn it out. Any ideas what I can do with a huge slab of Christmas cake crumbs? Or any ways to package it up to look ok? It tastes great - but just looks like ... well ... a cake that fell apart.

Oh, and any other ideas of ways to make little Christmas cakes?

You could make fruitcake truffles with the crumbs. You can make little cakes in washed out small bean tins or buy one of those divided up cake tins like this

could add to icecream and make a bombe ! add to cocolate make like christmas rocky road to give to people.

As you've now learnt, let the cake cool in the in before turning out. I make small cakes in salmon or tuna tins, these have smoother sides than bean tins and the diameter:height ratio is better.

I've just tried some small card boxes from Lakeland (but can't find them on the website) which you can bake in, but I'm not sure about the resultant cakes; I think the sides slope a bit too much, and the size is very tiny.

Camdancer,
I am sorry to say that your plan was flawed from the beginning, even if your cut had been trouble free.

Dried fruit contains juice, in particular fruit acids. If you ice these cut cakes, the fruit acid will leach out into the marzipan and then through to the icing. The result will look like when the knots in new timber discolour the overlying paint. You can't really use Dulux Knot-stopper on your cakes. This is why many people bake using smaller mini tins or, like Molecule, Salmon or Tuna tins.

To use the current pile of crumbs, you could either send them to me or, as Moocowmrs says, make a bombe or Christmas Ice Cream. You may need to add some more fruit to the ice cream as you probably have too much "Cake" by proportion for that.

Thank you all for your advice. Will try the salmon tin version next. I have enough cake crumbs to try all your ideas!

my friend makes big cakes and cuts them up and ices them... they always look fine. if you use a nice layer of apricot jam then some thick marzipan and then icing it really shouldn't show any colour through... that's what they're for!

however, to answer your actual question OP, clearly you should eat it!

Ice-cream gets my vote