This is a thing that happened this weekend.

But it's not really the point.

The point is actually this.

These things are related because one is the cause and one is the effect. I made a dinosaur princess cake for a friend's birthday, and in doing so, I ended up with a bowl filled with cake scraps (to make the princess dress, I stacked three 9" round cakes and then trimmed them into the shape of a volcano). I couldn't very well just throw away the cake scraps, so ... effect.

It occurred to me that these little cups filled with magic would be a most excellent way to deal with not just cake scraps, but any ruined cake. Trying to decorate something and failing? Burned the edges of a cake? Tried to get the cake out of the pan and wound up with a billion pieces? It's all good. Cut whatever is salvageable into little cubes and work some magic.

Magic Cake Cups

1 cake, any flavor (I used this recipe. The only trick was that I baked the 9" round cake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees then covered it with foil and baked it for another 10-12 minutes.) (It would be super fun to use multiple flavors of cake.)
2 cups whipped cream (canned or make it using whipping cream and sugar)
Handful of berries

1. Place the cake cubes in the bottoms of the cup.

2. Add a few dollops of whip cream.

3. Top with berries.

4. Pretend like you were planning the Magic Cake Cups the whole time.

BTW, kids are super helpful with this one. Alexis did a lot of the cubing, most of the whipped cream, and all of the berries.