What Are Cake crumbs and How Can I Use Them?

Wondering what to do with cake crumbs? This guide covers how to pick them, cook them, store them, and swap them — with 6 recipes to put them to work.

Recipes using cake crumbs

There are 6 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Rum Rolls

This recipe comes from one of my Norway friends, she gave me this good recipe: These rolls I make from leftover cake vreks! You can have any kind of cake in it but half of the crumbs must be from chocolate cake. I store leftover in my freezer and make this recipe when I want to.

Contucci Di Prato (Nut Cookies)

Traditional Tuscan twice-baked nut cookies studded with whole almonds and hazelnuts. Crunchy, fragrant, and built for dunking in Vin Santo or espresso.

Apricot Rugelah

Cream cheese dough rolled with apricot preserves and walnuts, sliced into crescent-shaped cookies and baked until golden.

Rehruecken

Rehruecken (saddle of venison cake) bakes a German chocolate-cinnamon sponge in a ribbed loaf mold, splits and fills with currant jelly, then glazes with chocolate and studs with slivered almonds.

Pet Milk Coffee Cake

Pet milk coffee cake baked in a bundt pan with layers of brown sugar, cinnamon, and nut crumb topping swirled through a rich evaporated milk batter.

Chocolate Coconut Cheesecake

Chocolate, cream cheese, coconut, sour cream and brandy make this delicious cheesecake.

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