What to make with leftover sponge cake: 4 options for delicious treats

Iryna MelnichenkoLS Food
What can be made from leftover sponge cake
What can be made from leftover sponge cake

Who doesn't love a delicious sponge cake, with a berry layer and airy cream? The main problem with this treat is that it doesn't always turn out to be airy, fluffy, and light due to non-compliance with cooking rules or certain products, but if you do everything right, you'll get an excellent, delicious dessert.

Liza Hlynska, a pastry chef and judge of the MasterChef project, shared on Instagram 4 options for delicious dishes made from leftover sponge cake, which can even become a separate dessert.

1. You can safely make crumbs from the leftover sponge cake and decorate beautiful cakes, such as "Smetannyk", and "Red Velvet".

Cake ''Red velvet''

2. You can also use sponge cake crumbs to make a delicious English dessert with berries in a glass – trifle.

It is easy to prepare, just put the sponge cake pieces in layers with butter or custard and decorate it with berries, or you can pour jam over it.

English dessert with sponge cake and berries

3. A delicious cake from childhood – "Potatoes"

It is very easy to prepare – just take the sponge cake scraps, make crumbs out of them, add butter, condensed milk, and cocoa powder, mix everything thoroughly and form balls with your hands, put them in the refrigerator for a few hours and you have a wonderful tea party treat.

Cake ''Potato''

4. Children's cakes on sticks – cake pops

Homemade cake pops

Sponge cake leftovers can be an excellent base for children's mini cakes on a stick – cake pops in the form of cute hearts and balls.

They are very simple and quick to prepare, you just need to crumble the leftover sponge cake, add butter, chocolate, and condensed milk, mix everything thoroughly, form any shape to your liking with your hands, attach a stick, sprinkle with nuts or confectionery sprinkles and refrigerate for several hours.

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