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chocolate ball cake

What do you do to salvage a sunken cake? make cake balls of course!!! I have done this even before cake balls became the rage - yeeaaaarrsss ago. I just could not bear to throw away my cake when the baking had failed and am left with a sunken center, I just had to do something and so i made cake balls and my tasters were none the wiser tee hee!!

For New Year's Eve, I was tasked to make another cake. I was just planning a simple chocolate ring cake and drown it in chocolate fudge (as requested) and decorate it with colorful sprinkles and candy. So I made the batter and stuck it in the oven, but I must have lowered the oven temp to less than required - I was online and greeting friends and family over facebook and was scared I'd forget the cake and burn it, so the result was a sunken cake. I can not present it for NYE dessert so I rushed to start again and salvage the first one by making cake balls - the center was still so moist that frosting wasn't required, so yay!!



 

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