# Baking disaster, help!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 10, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523 "2006-12-10T01:48:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523/1 "2006-12-10T01:48:51Z")
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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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523/2 "2006-12-10T01:51:57Z")
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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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523/3 "2006-12-10T01:52:49Z")
I would put vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce on them, and eat them anyway, but that’s just me.
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### Author:  [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523/4 "2006-12-10T01:54:11Z")
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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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523/5 "2006-12-10T02:08:49Z")
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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### Author:  [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523/6 "2006-12-10T02:59:03Z")
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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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2006, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-disaster-help/383523/7 "2006-12-10T06:20:59Z")
Chocolate poundcake bread pudding will kill you with deliciosity. Drizzle some pureed raspberries over it and just dee eye ee die.