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Leftover Halloween candy? Make a cake!
Posted Oct 31st 2006 7:54PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Candy, On the Blogs, Comfort Food
Halloween candyIf you're trick or treating with the kids tonight, chances are you're going to have either a.) your kids eating a ton of candy and getting sick or hyper, or b.) enough candy to last the next 38 days. Besides eating the candy bar by bar, piece by piece, what else can you do with it?
How about a Leftover Candy Cake? This recipe from CDKitchen takes all of your leftover candy, whether it's chocolate or hard candies and makes it into a bundt cake. Check out the ingredients and the instructions after the jump.
2 cups coarsely chopped candy
2 3/4 cups sifted flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
8 oz unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1/4 tsp almond extract
1 cup sour cream
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Butter a bundt pan and dust with fine bread crumbs (wait...I don't even see bread crumbs on the ingredients list...hmmm). Shake out excess. In another bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. In another bowl, cream butter until soft, then alternate adding dry ingredients with sour cream. Place 1 1/2 cups of this mixture into pan. Add candies to the rest of the batter (folding in). Pour over plain batter. Bake for about an hour. Cool for 15 minutes. Cover pan with rack, flip over, and remove cake. Let it cool a little while longer. You can then add confectioner's sugar on top if you want.
Note: I bought WAAAY too much candy; I'm still accustomed to the number of houlligans, er kids, that I had come trick or treating in KC.
Leftover Halloween candy? Make a cake!
Posted Oct 31st 2006 7:54PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Candy, On the Blogs, Comfort Food
Halloween candyIf you're trick or treating with the kids tonight, chances are you're going to have either a.) your kids eating a ton of candy and getting sick or hyper, or b.) enough candy to last the next 38 days. Besides eating the candy bar by bar, piece by piece, what else can you do with it?
How about a Leftover Candy Cake? This recipe from CDKitchen takes all of your leftover candy, whether it's chocolate or hard candies and makes it into a bundt cake. Check out the ingredients and the instructions after the jump.
2 cups coarsely chopped candy
2 3/4 cups sifted flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
8 oz unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1/4 tsp almond extract
1 cup sour cream
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Butter a bundt pan and dust with fine bread crumbs (wait...I don't even see bread crumbs on the ingredients list...hmmm). Shake out excess. In another bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. In another bowl, cream butter until soft, then alternate adding dry ingredients with sour cream. Place 1 1/2 cups of this mixture into pan. Add candies to the rest of the batter (folding in). Pour over plain batter. Bake for about an hour. Cool for 15 minutes. Cover pan with rack, flip over, and remove cake. Let it cool a little while longer. You can then add confectioner's sugar on top if you want.
Note: I bought WAAAY too much candy; I'm still accustomed to the number of houlligans, er kids, that I had come trick or treating in KC.
