How to Fix a Broken Cake – Best Way to Repair Your Cake

You put in hours of effort to bake the perfect cake. You keep watching it bake in the oven because you are super excited and super nervous at the same time. When the moment finally comes, you carefully try to remove the cake from its pan and – broken! We can’t put into words how heartbreaking that can be.

Don’t lose hope yet! You can still make the party a success with your cake. You just need a few tips on what to do with a crumbled cake up your sleeve, and you will be good to go! 

Why do cakes break? 

Understanding why cakes break can help you prevent the cracking and breaking altogether. Cakes break for different reasons such as the following:

1. The oven is too hot: In this case, the top layer of the cake comes apart.
2. Cakes also break if we open the oven door regularly. The temperature fluctuates when we do this, and the cake just ends up cracking.
3. When we bake cakes like cheesecakes, even the batter plays an important role. If you beat the batter too much, it may come apart.
4. Baking your pound cake in a tube pan is a great idea. Many of us use loaf pans, but chances of cracking are more in loaf pans.
5. Don’t ever remove the cake when it is too hot. Let it cool down considerably before attempting to remove it from the cake pan. This will also reduce the chances of breakage.

How to Fix a Broken Cake

The first thing to do here would be not to panic. All is not lost yet, and you can still revive your cake. But, that won’t be possible if you worry too much and start panicking. So, take deep breaths and just follow these instructions: 

1. Use ganache: Ganache works perfectly well to seal the cake, and it isn’t even hard to make. Use simple ganache to seal the cracks on your cake and let it dry. It is a good edible glue that can hide your mistakes beautifully!
2. Use buttercream: Buttercream is an even better edible glue that we could use to fix your broken cake. It also has the ability to glue completely broken pieces together. So, if the disaster happened when you were peeling the cake off the tin, buttercream is your savior.
3. Make icing with mascarpone: Mix mascarpone, coffee, and icing sugar and make yourself some nice icing. This is a great replacement for those who do not like using buttercream.

Tip: If the cake is beyond repair or has crumbled too much to fix through the following methods, you could turn it into a neat trifle! Sometimes, even a cake leveler can help to repair the cake, so you should try it for normal repairs. 

FAQ's 

1) What can you do with a bad cake? 

We all have seen flopped cakes no matter how professional we become. At times we all have this phase. But you can fix cakes. Do you want to know how? Here are the few pro fixes that I have learnt over the years and now none of my cakes are wasted.  

2) If the cake is overbaked, too dry or broken 

Fixes:

1. Make cakepops or cakesickles. These are miniature versions of cakes that can never go wrong and you can enjoy them. These types of cakes are originally made from cake sponges only. So why to bake a separate cake, use the ones you spoiled. 
2. You can fold the broken pieces of these cakes along with ice cream or pudding. 

3) If the have forgotten to add baking soda 

Fixes: 

It is okay if your cake has not grown, you can cut them into brownies as brownies are not always very spongy. 

So these were the few tips, if you have more cake issues then do let me know in the comment box below and I will solve them too. Just make sure that a bad tasting cake cannot ever be fixed.

Have you tried other ways of saving a broken cake, which have actually worked? Or, do you just give up when a cake cracks? Share your experiences with us!