Well,
culinary tries don’t work every time! I recently wanted to innovate with a
small bran biscuits recipe, but I don’t know if the basic recipe had a problem
or if it was me^^, but the result wasn’t really great. And I had a lot of photos ready to show you, that’s so unfair :p Very
‘dry-weird-doughy’ texture but taste was pretty good… And because there is just
NO WAY for me to throw food away, I had to fix that!
So I got
the idea to make some “Cake pops” with
it! You probably have already seen them, those little balls made of melting
cake inside and crunchy chocolate outside. I already tried to make them, a long
time ago, with some Nutella. But here, the “real” Nutella is a rare commodity.
It’s kept into a safe box double locked, and Mister is the only one who gets to
have the key (yes yes :D). Well,
right, I must admit that the homemade chocolate-nut spread recently discovered
tempted me a lot more :p
So hup, without
any moment's thought, I took my mixer, a pan, and here we go.
To save a cake
gone wrong, you will need:
- The cake gone wrong
- Somehomemade chocolate-nut spread (but Nutella is ok ;)
- Some dark chocolate
- Some stuff for the finishing touch: grated coconut, sweet little stars, etc.
Start by
preparing the homemade chocolate-nut spread by following this recipe and pour
it into a salad bowl.Then
crumble the cake on the spread. Blend, adjust the quantity of cake and/or
spread in order to get a texture that you can easily handle.
Then form
some balls whatever size you want and keep 30 minutes into the freezer.
After this
time, melt some dark chocolate in a double-boiler. Then take a wood pick, dive
it into the melted chocolate, drive it into a ball and dive the ball into the
melting chocolate. Make sure you put some chocolate all over the ball. Swirl the
ball around on top of the chocolate to remove the excess chocolate from the
ball. Then you can add some grated coconut or whatever you want before the
chocolate solidify.
Put the
balls on some parchment paper, upside down (be sure it dried a bit before) or
use a cheese grater and drive the picks in it (sorry, I didn’t find anything better on the fly :D) – I think a
glass could serve the purpose if your picks are high enough. And keep in
the fridge until eating them!
SERVING SUGGESTIONS
Gamble paid
off! That was way better, phew. The crunchiness and the melting replaced the
dry texture from the original cake. The light nut taste from the spread brings
something new, I really liked it. Besides, I know two little ones of 2 and 9
years old who pounced on them :) And I don’t know why but the cake pops with
little stars disappeared first ;)
Do you have any
other ideas to give a second life to your cakes? I’m listening!
Rose.
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