Baking disaster, help!!

Cafe Society
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Tonight’s rather misguided holiday baking fest has went horribly awry. While debating between the same old banana or pumpkin breads my sister and I had the seemingly brilliant idea of making chocolate loaves.

The computer yielded a yummy-looking choc pound cake recipe in a suitable loaf shape and away we went. Switched to mini-loaf pans for easier freezing and/or gifting and popped them into the oven.

The good news: they’re indeed yummy.

The bad news: they each collapsed, rather spectacularly.

What can I do with 6 small fallen chocolate pound cakey loaves? I hate to just toss them, but I certainly can’t serve them to anyone. Anyone got a recipe for broken chocolate cake pieces or something?

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Cut into 1/2 inch slices and freeze. Pull out when you want to serve them, put a scoop of ice cream on top with fudge sauce, and call 'em hot fudge brownie sundaes.

Or make chocolate bread pudding: cut into squares, put a custard over them much like normal bread pudding. Bake & serve.

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I would put vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce on them, and eat them anyway, but that’s just me.

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How about a trifle? I just googled “chocolate trifle” and came up with a number of hits. Basically, you mix pieces of the cake with a pudding and whipped cream.

(And despite what the recipes say, use real whipped cream instead of Cool Whip.)

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Turns out they are good anyway, one of them has already been sacrificed into a sundae-ish dessert.

Trifle! I don’t know why I didn’t think of that, I’ll freeze them and make a pretty layered trifle for Christmas dinner. Thanks!

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Or you could make bread pudding of some sort – make a custard and mix it all up. Yum!

Also, you could freeze them until you have a fondue party (a great thing in winter), and use them as dippers for the chocolate fondue.

I like everyone else’s ideas, too – I know they wouldn’t have lasted long in my house, collapse or no!

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Chocolate poundcake bread pudding will kill you with deliciosity. Drizzle some pureed raspberries over it and just dee eye ee die.