This easy no-bake Swiss roll is made with leftover stale cake scraps and leftover buttercream frosting! A delicious, decadent & fudgy dessert!
Because I try many recipes for my blog, I sometimes have cake scraps leftover. I don’t like to throw food away. So, in the past, I’ve turned stale cake into Cake Crumb Pie Crust, used cake crumbs to make naturally colored polka dots for my Polka Dot Cake Without A Cake Pop Maker, made 1930s Strawberry Dessert and Pink Strawberry Marshmallow Cake Pops – Colored With Beetroot. And one of my favorite uses for stale cake so far were my Edible Moss Balls: The moss balls are chocolate peanut butter cake pops covered with edible moss that I dyed naturally green with sunflower seeds!
But this time I also had buttercream frosting leftover. So I came up with this delicious vanilla no-bake Swiss roll. This no-back Swiss roll is easy and fast to make if you have unexpected guests coming over!
No-Bake Swiss Roll With Cake Scraps & Leftover Buttercream
Ingredients for 12 slices:
Cake Crumbs Dough
- 4 cups cake crumbs
- 2 cups buttercream frosting
Filling
- 2 cups buttercream frosting
- optional: strawberries or other fruit
Directions:
Cake Crumbs Dough
Combine cake crumbs and buttercream frosting in a bowl. Knead with your hands until combined.
No-Bake Swiss Roll
On parchment paper, roll out the cake crumbs dough into a 1/2-inch (1cm) thick rectangle.
Spread buttercream evenly over the cake. Add strawberries or other fruit if you want.
Then roll the cake up. Serve the no-bake Swiss roll immediately or put in the fridge to firm up.
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This looks amazing! I want to thaw all the left over cake and buttercream that are in my freezer right now and eat the whole thing. But since that is exactly what I would do… I’ll have to wait. 🙂 It sounds amazing though! 🙂 Good idea!
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Lol! 😀 Thank you so much!
Oh wow! This looks delicious! And so easy to do!
Thanks, Alexandra! 😀
This would go great with my coffee this morning!
Lol! 😀 Thanks for stopping by, Donna!
This looks so delicious! I’m definitely going to give this a go 🙂 Pinned for later.
Thanks, Fiona! 🙂 Let me know how you like it!
Oh my!! This is such a great idea! I haven’t thought of doing this, but I rarely have leftover cake. Hahaha! In the future, when I have any leftovers, I’ll remember to do this. Thanks for sharing at Fiesta Friday party!
Thanks so much, Jhuls! 😀
Such a creative idea! Thanks for linking up to Fiesta Friday.
Thanks, Angie!
Looks delicious! This will be one of my features this Saturday at the Snickerdoodle link party!
Thanks so much for featuring me, Roseann! 😀
That is such a good idea for scraps! Thank you for sharing this with us at the Homestead Blog Hop!
Thank you, Ann!
That looks so good
Mollyx
Thanks, Molly!
i was running out of ideas for cake scraps. cake pops, cheesecake bites. but now i have another choice. thank you for this new application.