Cake dilemma

[LionsandBears]

I have a cake dilemma. I found a gluten free, paleo recipe for cranberry bliss bars which appealed. I bought all the ingredients except almond butter. I'm avoiding nuts, so I figured I'd just substitute the almond butter with real butter. Ok, I'm not a good cook generally and I'm still getting used to GF baking.

anyhoo, I get to the end of the mixing and realise that there's no flour. The almond butter was a substitute for butter and flour in the original recipe. Given the amount of butter (450gm) with 2 eggs, I threw in 3/4 cup of coconut flour and hoped that would be enough. I whacked it in a slice pan and into the oven and baked it for about 30 min. It smelt delicious - it used honey instead of sugar. The outside was crisp and almost burning and the inside was still wet. I put it back in on a lower temperature. It eventually mostly cooked right through and I got bored of waiting. It tasted great, except for the burnt bits on the outside.

rather than throw it out, I covered it with cream cheese icing, sprinkled it with cranberries and lemon zest and tried to cut it. It crumbles so I can't really cut it into bars. It's delicious creamed cheese covered crumbs really.

Normally with my baking, I eat some and then try to give most of it away so I don't eat it all. My dilemma is, I can't give this away. So unless I eat it all myself, I'm going to need to throw it, which I would feel bad about.

Do I:
a) eat myself sick
b) chalk it up to experience, adjust the recipe next time and throw it out, or
c) create a new fad - icing covered crumbly bits

it's really yummy, so it definitely has potential if I tweak the recipe some.

*sushee/rouge- will we call this the development or testing environment?

[nothing2lose]

Freeze it into delicious single serve portions of cream cheese icing covered crumbs!

[feeb]

Could you crumble it up and serve in top of stewed fruit or mix into museli?? eat in yougurt???

Or just eat it!

[Kazzo]

Invite over a few great friends, give them a spoon , bowl and cup of tea/coffee and tell them they need to help you figure out how to get it right next time.

[LionsandBears]

Freeze it into delicious single serve portions of cream cheese icing covered crumbs!

That might work. If I can scoop it out enough. Then I don't have to eat it all.

[Rouge]

I'd say both but you're about 100 pages short on documentation.

I'd probably freeze it and crumble it over ice cream. Or blitz and make into gluten free truffles and roll in coconut.

FYI you can freeze truffles for portion perfect little bites of goodness.

[LionsandBears]

Could you crumble it up and serve in top of stewed fruit or mix into museli?? eat in yougurt???

Or just eat it!

might be able to crumble it. I'm not eating it all! My backside is plenty big enough already!

Invite over a few great friends, give them a spoon , bowl and cup of tea/coffee and tell them they need to help you figure out how to get it right next time.

oooh. That's a great idea

I'd say both but you're about 100 pages short on documentation.

I'd probably freeze it and crumble it over ice cream. Or blitz and make into gluten free truffles and roll in coconut.

FYI you can freeze truffles for portion perfect little bites of goodness.

i might try turning some into truffles. Not sure if the icing will mess that up.
pfft to documentation

[Rouge]

It'll be like cake pops. Yum.

[LionsandBears]

I had a friend pop over this morning to try out the cake and she agreed it was delicious. We ate about a 1/4 of it, just to make sure it was still OK Then tonight I tried turning the mix into truffles or something and it was a disaster. At first, we thought it was the honey was too strong, so I added a pinch of salt and a heap of lemon juice. I added so much desiccated coconut to dry it up. It was tasting ok-ish but there was still something wrong. I think it was the coconut flour - the texture was all weird. So I chucked it all out.

The cream cheese icing was delicious though. I feel sad about wasting that. And the rest of the stuff I added to try to save it. But I will chalk it up to a learning experience. I should have chucked it out when the cake turned out bad, rather than trying to chase my losses.