Stop Throwing Out Leftover Cake! Do This Instead!

Are you ready for the ultimate dessert hack? If you have leftover cake lying around, you’ve got to try this. With just a few additional ingredients and some quick prep work, you can transform your leftovers into something new. The best part? You don’t even have to turn on the oven! Who knew leftover cake could be so amazing?

Recipe and video by Carleigh Bodrug.

Another way to use leftover cake: cake truffles

Featured photo: Leftover Cake Truffles by Kushi, Cook with Kushi. Kushi turns leftover cake, or a cake that did not turn out as planned, into bite-size chocolate-coated truffles. Any cake works, there is no baking, and they make good party treats or little gifts.

• Makes: about 20 truffles
• Time: about 1 hour 10 minutes, mostly chilling
• You’ll need: cashews, chocolate chips, coconut flakes, heavy whipping cream (or milk or coffee creamer), leftover cake, sugar (optional), vanilla extract

Get Kushi’s full recipe at Cook with Kushi →

More ideas for leftover cake

• Trifle. Layer cubes of cake with pudding or whipped cream and fruit in a glass dish.
• Dessert cups. Crumble it into small glasses with cream and berries, like our no-bake dessert shots.
• Freeze it. Wrapped tightly, plain cake keeps in the freezer for a couple of months, ready for the next dessert.
• Cake crumbs as a topping. Toast crumbs briefly and sprinkle them over ice cream or yogurt.

More no-bake desserts

• 17 no-bake summer desserts
• 3-ingredient double chocolate mousse
• Easy 5-minute no-bake tiramisu