Sometimes cakes just don’t work out.  Maybe you measure wrong, maybe the moon is in the wrong sign, maybe the energy just isn’t in the air.  Whatever the reason, we’ve all produced a sub-par cake.  But what do you do when your cake isn’t what you wanted it to be?  Repurpose it and call it something entirely different!

I recently made a sponge cake from The Cake Boss’ recipe.  The cake was awesome!  But when I went to do a little amending of my own to make it a chocolate sponge cake, something was lost in translation.  The flavor was there, the crumb was there, it just seemed too dry for me.  But I didn’t want to throw it away because I knew there could be other uses, and I had just used up the last of my good chocolate.

The first thing I did, after I cut this huge…