If 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.
You can also put leftover candy into a batch of cookies, too.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-31-2006 @ 9:31PM
John said...
The cake element of the recipe sounds pretty good...but whoa, there's a lot of "margin of error" there!
Are we talking about only hard/sugar candies? Chocolate bars? Candies with a combination of flavors? 2 cups of coarsely-chopped chocolate bars would produce a vastly different cake than one made with 2 cups of coarsely-chopped Almond Joy bars (or Snickers, or Peanut Butter Cups). And what if you've got 2 cups of Jolly Ranchers??
Still, the idea warrants a little experimentation...
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11-01-2006 @ 1:21AM
glenn said...
Sounds O.K. to me.I wonder if I could add "Poprocks" as a ingredient? It may add some excitement!
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11-02-2006 @ 5:40PM
Lavalady said...
I made mine last night, and it turned out pretty well. My candy was an even mix of mini snickers, milky way, take 5, and almond joy bars. The cake itself is a very rich pound cake, making the whole endeavor terribly unhealthy. But delicious.
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11-26-2006 @ 2:17AM
Amber said...
I made this using a combination of Whoppers, Milk Duds, Kit Kats, plain M&Ms, M&M Minis, and peanut M&Ms, and boy was it sweet! I'd decrease the amount of candy by half at the very least. Better yet, leave out the candy and go for a lemon, orange, or coconut flavor. The cake is very rich and moist and would be perfect for one of those flavors. Also, I just greased and floured the pan instead of using bread crumbs, and it turned out fine.
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