Sometimes you make a cake, possibly an easy-to-make cake that you have done so many times and mastered completly. And some of those times, you do it so without focusing on it that you forget the baking powder, or the eggs, or sugar... or put twice the amount required of some ingredient...
Ok, we're human. The important thing when this happens and it is too late to rectify anything by the time you realise is to recycle. Yes, you can recycle food, including cakes. Or 'miscakes' as I call them.
This happened to me a few days ago. I intended to make a simple yogurt sponge cake, always delicious and easy to make. And after having it in the oven for 10 minutes a thought came to my mind: 'you mess!, you left the baking powder out!'... Ok, the cake was ruined, yeah, thick like a brick. But I didn't want to waste all that food I have used. After all, the cake smelled delicious anyway...
So I just left it to cool, chopped it and crumbled it and add it as a final ingredient (let's call it an extra) to my easiest ever cookies dough (I doubled the amounts of the cookies recipe) and flatten them a bit before baking them, hence the shape). I also add some orange flower essence and orange zest to bring back a bit of a Roscón flavour and ended up with some deliciously soft buns as you can see in the top picture above.
In the second picture there is another recycled invention I made a while ago. That time I recycled the crumbs I got from some cookies that resulted too soft, spongy-like. I used them up as an extra for the same basic cookies recipe, adding chopped hazelnuts and covering them with some melted dark chocolate once they had cooled down.
These recycled recipes turned out to be VERY tasty and successful among all the testers :)
Recently, I just wanted to find some use for a hard almond turrón bar nobody would have eaten otherwise. So I crumbled it using a mortar and pestle and add it all (150g) to my easiest ever cookies dough too. You can see the result in the picture below.
This happened to me a few days ago. I intended to make a simple yogurt sponge cake, always delicious and easy to make. And after having it in the oven for 10 minutes a thought came to my mind: 'you mess!, you left the baking powder out!'... Ok, the cake was ruined, yeah, thick like a brick. But I didn't want to waste all that food I have used. After all, the cake smelled delicious anyway...
So I just left it to cool, chopped it and crumbled it and add it as a final ingredient (let's call it an extra) to my easiest ever cookies dough (I doubled the amounts of the cookies recipe) and flatten them a bit before baking them, hence the shape). I also add some orange flower essence and orange zest to bring back a bit of a Roscón flavour and ended up with some deliciously soft buns as you can see in the top picture above.
In the second picture there is another recycled invention I made a while ago. That time I recycled the crumbs I got from some cookies that resulted too soft, spongy-like. I used them up as an extra for the same basic cookies recipe, adding chopped hazelnuts and covering them with some melted dark chocolate once they had cooled down.
These recycled recipes turned out to be VERY tasty and successful among all the testers :)
Recently, I just wanted to find some use for a hard almond turrón bar nobody would have eaten otherwise. So I crumbled it using a mortar and pestle and add it all (150g) to my easiest ever cookies dough too. You can see the result in the picture below.
Now you know, think twice before throwing away any cake that seemed to be a failure with no solution. It has one, probably more... and it may even be tastier that the original creation. Take it as an oportunity to improve it and... learn from your miscakes!
A good idea to reduce food waste ;)
A good idea to reduce food waste ;)