Strawberry Volcano Cake Scrap Dessert

Strawberry Volcano

Every once in a while we have a cake that requires shaping. Be it a wedding cake, a birthday cake, or in the case of the cake scraps used in this dessert, a baby shower cake. If your like me, you hate to just toss those cake pieces in the compost/food waste bin, but what do you do with them. Its not as though you can present the as a full fledged dessert. How would your guest take it if you handed them a bowl and said enjoy its my cake table scraps? Well if it was one of my brothers they'd eat it an love it regardless, but not everyone is a treat loving older brother. So here is a use for those delicious but slightly unseemly cake trimmings. 

Cake trimmings

Strawberry Volcano. Its unbelievably easy and absolutely delicious. Take the slightly unseemly cake scraps and place them in the bottom of a bowl. it doesn't matter what pieces you use or what it looks like. Using fresh strawberries  cut one large one into quarters or eighths, but take special care to make sure it stays together, place this strawberry in the center of the cake scrap mound. This strawberry will be the volcano. using other strawberries slice them and place them all around the "volcano" strawberry. make sure to cover the entire cake surface with strawberries. When completed no cake should be visible only what appears to be a bowl of cut strawberries. Finally using either a chocolate sauce or simply melted chocolate pour a small amount at the top of the volcano strawberry giving it the appearance of an erupting volcano. Then lightly drizzle the surrounding strawberries with the chocolate and Voila. You now have beautiful, fun and unique dessert for friends and family of all ages, and added bonus you were able to us your extra cake scraps constructively.

Strawberry Volcano Pre-Chocolate eruption.