What Would You Do? Too Much/not Enough Batter

Baking By imartsy Updated 29 Apr 2021 , 9:34am by tesso

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imartsy Posted 22 Apr 2021 , 8:07pm
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I'm making a chocolate cake for my child's birthday. There's going to be a "ramp" in the front I was going to make out of vanilla cake - a 1 late 8 inch cake, halved, stacked and carved. I figured it would provide a bit of white to guests who might not like chocolate. 

At the same time, the receipe I was using didn't fill my 8 inch cake pans, so I doubled it. Now I'm left with too much chocolate batter. I haven't started the white cake. 

What would you do? Make the white cake AND chocolate? Decide to do two tiers even though I know that's more cake than I need? Cupcakes? Forget about white cake and just hope everyone likes chocolate? 


Thanks!

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-K8memphis Posted 22 Apr 2021 , 10:11pm
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yes, forget the white cake 

do cupcakes with the extra

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-K8memphis Posted 23 Apr 2021 , 1:23pm
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or of course make the ramp with the extra batter but it's too late now probably

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SandraSmiley Posted 23 Apr 2021 , 2:40pm
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I'd forget about the white cake.  Who wants white cake if you can hav chocolate?!

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jchuck Posted 27 Apr 2021 , 7:31pm
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You can freeze batter, up to 3 months. You can also scoop frozen cake batter right into cupcake papers and bake. No need to thaw. 

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tesso Posted 29 Apr 2021 , 9:34am
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jchuck nailed it. freeze that batter.  love the scoop idea for cup cakes. I freeze my extra batter in throw away plastic icing bags. I bought a bag sealer years ago. add batter to bags, seal them, that way if you need just a little batter for a few cupcakes, just grab a bag snip the end and squeeze into cupcake/or pan. throw bag away. and blessed be.. no clean up!!!

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