Brownie Cake (with leftover fruit cake)

Ever have a cake fail, where the cake broke while getting it out of the mould, or dose’nt look very appealing, but actually tastes quite good? We had a fail very recently, where making an eggless fruit cake during Christmas, the cake did not hold very well while removing it out of the mould. So we decided to put this fruit cake to some use.

The easiest way would be to add some melted  chocolate and make it into cake balls or truffles. But we decided to go another way.

We crumbled the fruit cake, baked it in the oven till it got extremely hard, crushed it into a fine powder and used that as a ‘flour’ for the new cake.

Below are the ingredients list and step by step instructions for this cake.

Happy Baking!

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, melted (extra for greasing the pan)

1½ cups all purpose flour

4 large eggs

1 cup cocoa powder

2 cups leftover cake (i used fruit cake)

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups sugar

a pinch of salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp ground cloves

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

Method

This is the leftover cake that has been roughly crumbled.

Layer this on to a baking tray.

Bake in a pre heated oven for 30 – 40 minutes or till the cake becomes quite hard.

Transfer it into a blender.

Blitz it into a fine powder and remove it into a bowl.

This is the list of ingredients for the brownie cake.

To a bowl, add the flour.

To that, add the baking powder.

Then, add the cinnamon.

Next, add the nutmeg.

Next, add the cloves.

Finally, add the salt.

Give it a good mix.

To a bowl, add the ground fruit cake flour.

Next, add the cocoa powder.

Then, add the sugar.

Mix it in together.

Add the beaten eggs.

Then, add the butter.

Add the vanilla and mix everything in.

Finally, add the flour.

Mix it one final time. The batter will be a very thick brownie batter.

Butter and flour a cake tin and pour the batter into it to fill up three-fourths of the pan.

Bake in a pre heated oven at 180 degrees for 40 – 45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted inside comes clean.

Sprinkle icing sugar on top.

 

This cake will stay at room temperature for up to 3 days and up to a week when refrigerated.

Check out more cake recipes here:

https://old.desidaawat.com/indian-cuisine/recipes-type/cakes/