sculpted cakes

[MightyD]

here's a dilemma i face when making sculpted cakes ... i HATE all that waste from the trimmings!!!!

what do you do with them? can't really dry them out to use as crumbs because they have frosting in them. can't eat that much cake or i'll need a whole new wardrobe ...

i'm on the verge of signing off on them.

thoughts?

[Rebecca263]

Rumballs, rolled in buttercream to accent the frosting?

[highchef]

trifle (sp)..with lots of liquor and whipped cream.

Just freeze the scraps, and make it your signature dessert.

[Rebecca263]

Do you see a theme here? Basically, I think that alcoholic additives are key wen dealing with cake scraps!

[sanrensho]

Ditto, freeze the scraps and use them in other desserts. Use them to line the bottom of a chocolate or cream tart.

[petite tête de chou]

Smoosh the scraps together into patties, freeze, then use them for ice-cream sandwiches.

[highchef]

Smoosh the scraps together into patties, freeze, then use them for ice-cream sandwiches.

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Yummm!

and then soak in liquor?

[K8memphis]

Another idea, like for example you can cut the shape of the state of Texas out of a square cake without any leftover as a flat cut out cake using a 14" I think it is but just an example. So for 3-d sculptures, maybe plan it different where you consider the smallest possible configuration of cake to ultimately incorporate the scraps back into the project. You can't always do that as well as the state of Texas comes out but it can help reduce the anguish and the waste.

I love the ice cream sandwich idea, petite tête de chou.

Rebecca, yes alcohol helps the whole leftover thing for sure!

You can also make mini cakes out of it to use for samples--glue it together and stack it up and cut out squares, place in muffin cups to seve to potential clients. Or to keep out on the counter to give out samples.

Or create a little crazy monster cake and drop it off at the local fire house or police department or the emergency room or pick a place. Like if you cut an oval shape out of a sheet cake, make an un-cake. Put the residue on a sheet board and ice it all up, so there's a big hole in the middle where you removed the oval to use in your project. Have fun writing an inscription in the center there. Actually, the muffin cup thing would go over better, less mess & hassle for them to just grab & go.

Just some scrappy ideas

[lorinda]

Cakeballs!

Or freeze to use to make spackle as per Toba Garrett's method.

[alanamoana]

danish filling/bear claw filling

[Mayhaw Man]

1) Get a bowl. A large one with a flat bottom would be most suitable

2) Put some of the scraps in the bottom of the bowl for the first layer

3) Heap in some homemade ice cream suitable for the type of cake scraps being used

4) Layer on some more cake until well covered

5) Eat. Smile. Take pleasure in your oversupply of cake and ice cream

You could also make two of these and please someone else. Then again, you could just construct two of them for you. Simply eat one, and cover the other with saran wrap (mashing down slightly to keep out the air and giving you a nice ice cream sandwich effect) and eat the other one later.

Too much cake is never, ever a problem in my book.

[racheld]

Too much cake is never, ever a problem in my book. 

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[LCS]

Sculpted cake orders are my husband's favorite kind because I bring him the scraps. Perhaps you have a loved one who likes cake scraps?

[lenabo]

I try to put all to the cake (after mixind with somr buttercream) - make small detales.

Or we can make "The potatoes" - Russian... fansy-cake? When you mix the scraps wth butter, suger, cacao powder and some alcohol. Yf you need a recipie I can translate.

[KarenDW]

cut into small squares, cover w/ glaze or ganache & sell to restos for dessert as petit fours?

[chefpeon]

I used to do all those things. Rum balls. Trifles. Ice Cream Cakes. Scraps in my mouth.

Now I just say, "screw it". The scraps go in the garbage immediately so I don't feast on them

as I work, and saving them doesn't work for me....I accumulate too much of them to use

them up fast enough, I just end up with moldy scraps that go in the garbage anyway.

I used to anguish about the waste, but now I'm just like "meh.....it's biodegradable." I feel

worse about throwing a styrofoam cup in the trash these days.

[Lindacakes]

I think you can roll them flat with a rolling pin, cut to size, stack, and use them as shims.