What to do with dry, crumbly chocolate cake.

[EmmyLou]

Baked a traybake choc cake yesterday, half of which was for DD1 to take on scout camp this weekend but as she left the house in full teenage strop yesterday, she forgot to take her half.

So now I am left with a cake which tbh, is a bit too dry and crumbly for my liking. DD2 and DD3 will probably eat it but I'm feeling a tad miffed that I wasted 5 eggs etc etc on a cake that I don't really like...I'm sure I've seen stale cake crumbs in a recipe before and thought to myself who TF has quantities of stale cake crumbs hanging around? Well now I do. Any ideas?

Freeze it until you find a recipe that uses them.

Or, serve it with custard a al school puddings.

Lots and lots of custard... or hot chocolate fudge sauce.... YUM!

I'd microwave it to moisten it up again and eat it with custard.

or you could make a Magic Flake Cake

My mum used to use stale choc cake with cherry jam and custard to make a sort of black forest trifle. Or is that too 70s?

Use as a sponge in a trifle.

Spread with cherry jam, sprinkle on some booze (kirsch would be good). Spread some morello cherries over the sponge. Pour over some ready made custard. Sprinkle a flake on top of the custard - voila.

or truffles

Truffles
225g cake crumbs
150g chocolate (large bar)
1 tablespoon Golden Syrup
2 tablespoons of water mixed with Rum or Brandy
Chocolate strands, or cocoa powder if preferred

Place finely crumbled cake crumbs in a bowl. Break up chocolate into pieces and put in a bowl in a pan of hot water to melt.
When melted, remove from the heat and stir in the cake crumbs.
Warm the tin of Golden Syrup in a pan of warm - not hot - water to make it easier to measure. Measure in the Syrup and the flavouring (not all at once on the liquid in case it gets too sloppy) and mix well.
Roll into balls with your hands and roll in chocolate strands or cocoa powder. Leave in a cool place to set, and serve in petit four cases.

Variations: Add chopped nuts to the mixture. Roll in chopped nuts. Roll in coloured strands. Use white chocolate. Add chopped marshmallows. Use white chocolate with small cherry pieces.

You could use it in Delia's Cheats Chocolate Trifle I've made this it's sooo easy and very yummy!

Oh yum yum yum at thought of well, all of the above. I may well freeze cake to get DDs to make truffles at a later date. Thanks for speedy responses!

Do you think having the word 'chocolate' or 'cake' in thread title always affords a speedy/emergency response?

OverMyDeadBody - yum - my most favourite cake ever !