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Try our top tips and ideas for making the most of the food we buy. Find out what types of food can be frozen and how to make your fridge a true food saving hero. Why not share your own tips to reduce food waste with fellow Love Food Hate Waste supporters.

Our tips for Cakes

  • Freezing a sliced cake

    To freeze sliced up cake – put greaseproof paper between each slice, this allows you to remove a few slices at a time rather than thaw the whole cake.

  • How to freeze a cake

    To freeze a whole cake - wrap a cake in a double layer of clingfilm and foil – it’ll keep for up to one month.

  • Ripe bananas

    Submitted by Lee, New Zealand

    Freeze them whole to use later in cakes, muffins or pikelets. They thaw quickly.

  • Using up apples

    Submitted by Caroline Marson, Cookery Advisor,

    Apples can be frozen in slices after they have been quickly cooked in boiling water. Freeze in a single layer then pack into bags once frozen. Use the frozen apples to make into apple cake or apple sauce.

  • Yoghurt for cakes and scones

    Submitted by Caroline Marson, Cookery Advisor,

    Add any leftover yoghurt to a cake or scone mixture instead of milk.

  • Saving your cake

    Submitted by Paddy, Woodstock

    If your cake sinks after cooking, remove centre with pastry cutter and fill with fresh fruit & cream and serve as a dessert. Failed muffins can make a great alternative to bread for bread and butter pudding.

  • Banana

    Submitted by Mary , Exeter

    If bananas are going riper than will be eaten I pop them in the freezer whole. I then defrost them at a later time to mash & add to pancake batter or use in muffins or even add as part of the fluid to a choclate cake mix. ( 1/2 cup banana = 1/4 cup fluid).

  • Save energy

    Submitted by Sue, Stockport

    If you are using oven for 1st course, also cook a pudding in the oven, even if you only freeze the pudding for reheating in the microwave for a meal on a different day. Try never to waste the empty space in your oven! After switching off oven, I also leave the door open whenever possible. Might as well use the surplus heat to heat the kitchen!

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