If you’re like me, you hate wasting food. Every time I level off a cake, I wonder what to do with the “hump” that comes off the top of the cake. Sometimes John and I will eat part of it with leftover icing, but more often then not, it gets put in the trash can. Not anymore though!!
I decided to make cake balls! Just crumble up the cake really fine into a large bowl, stir in frosting until you get the desired consistincy. Roll into balls and freeze them. Then dip them in melted candy melts. Super easy! I sent these with John to a Coaches meeting so I decorated these in the football teams colors. Go Pioneers!
John told me all of the coaches loooved them, so I will definetely keep them in mind the next time I have cake scraps. John prefers eating these frozen, so that’s where we store them.
4 responses so far ↓
Michele // September 3, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Nina – these sound great! I want to bake a cake just to try them now!
CB // September 3, 2008 at 9:08 pm
What a great idea! I’ll have to remember that the next time I go tailgating!
/Clara
Kim // September 4, 2008 at 12:46 am
I love cake balls, and make them with my cake scraps….yours are pretty!!!
zebe912 // September 16, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I love eating cake scraps more than regular cake. I eat them as I’m decorating and we save them to snack on after. I don’t DO anything to them. But for whatever reason, I like them more than cake. We freeze every cake before we decorate to loosen the crumbs and I think that must be what makes the cake scraps so moist & yummy.
I actually have a friend who gets excited any time I have a wedding cake to make, because he knows he’ll get a delivery of cake scraps to munch on. Scraps have actually been his birthday “cake” before too!