How To Repair A Broken Cake Layer

How to Fix Cake Disasters – how to turn cake fails into a cute and tasty dessert. No one has to know this version wasn't the plan!

What to do when you cake fails | cake wrecks

I've been baking cakes for a really long time. Blistering is my favorite 'grade' of cooking. But, even though I've been blistering a long fourth dimension, sometimes I still take 'block wrecks'. A lot of times, you can turn a disaster into a 'win' with just a few simple tricks. And, easy tricks, and so you don't have to waste all those cake ingredients!

Of grade, we'd like to avoid these situations altogether. If you proceed having the same problem, review my Baking Cakes: Problems and how to fix. Your problem may actually be your oven or something you're just over-looking. Most of the time when I have failed cakes, I don't melt them long enough or I don't spray my pan well enough. These are piece of cake fixes!

How to Fix Cake Disasters

Cake Fail Fixes

If your cake sticks and breaks in half coming out of the pan or a large chunk breaks off – Use icing or lemon curd to "glue" the cake dorsum together. This works best on a layer cake or cake that is frosted completely on the outside.
If your cake falls or has a sink-hole in the centre – A. Fill with curd, pudding, whipped cream or frost the best you lot tin and fill with candy. B. You can also remove the sunken part leaving a ring. Frost and serve equally a ring or wreath. C. Make full with ice cream, and so top with meringue and toast and y'all have a beautiful Baked Alaska.
To frost a broken cake – You will frost the cake twice. Make sure the first frosting is thin and spreads hands. For instance, you tin can identify a tub of shop-bought frosting in the microwave for ten to 20 seconds. Once its soft, spread over the cake encasing the crumbs in the icing. This is technically called 'crumb blanket'. Permit this cool and set. If y'all ca air-condition, that's even better. When house, frost as you normally would.

If your cake fails and information technology'south as well messed up to fix with icing and serve, turn it into block balls or truffles.

Applesauce Truffles

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Even easier than cake assurance is truffle bark! Basically, White Chocolate Strawberry Truffle Bawl is the same every bit block balls, merely you lot don't spend all that time rolls balls and dipping them into chocolate. Much, much easier!

White Chocolate Strawberry Truffle Bark

Bundt cakes are my nemesis. I take anxiety every time I go to flip one out of the pan… and with proficient reason. I've messed up so many cakes non doing a good flip. At present, I only make trifles like this Irish Foam Chocolate Pound Block Trifle with Irish Cream Caramel Sauce and act similar it was the plan all along.

irish-cream-chocolate-cake-trifle-recipe

I made the cake part of this Skinny Cake Concoction No Churn Ice Cream specifically to make this ice cream with. Withal, it'south a great way to use a cleaved block.

Skinny Cake Batter Ice Cream