Freezing Decorated Cake Covered In Fondant/chocopan

Decorating By prterrell Updated 12 Apr 2007 , 3:36am by jnoel

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prterrell Posted 11 Apr 2007 , 9:22pm
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Has anyone ever frozen an already decorated cake that was covered in fondant? My initial instinct tells me that you can't do this and have it come out ok. But I was wondering if anyone tried it and had success?

What about chocopan? You can roll that out and cover a cake with it right? Could you cover a cake in that and then freeze it?

I am making a pirate's treasure chest for my nephew's birthday, but it will be in the freezer for at least 2 weeks before it's eaten. (I'm in ATL and my sister lives in Raleigh, NC. I'm taking 2 cakes up at the end of June - my youngest nephew's 1st birthday cake of Elmo which will be eaten right away and my middle newphew's 8th birthday cake which will be frozen once I get there. I can't afford to make the 8 hour each way car trip 2 weeks apart.)

I'd rather cover the cake if fondant or chocopan because I think I can get a better look that way, but if those won't work, I'll just do it in BC. It might not look as good as the other but he'll still be happy with it and I know it will taste good!

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mcdonald Posted 11 Apr 2007 , 10:13pm
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I have seen several posts about putting a cake covered in fondant into the frig. That would depend on a few things like the temp in the frig and what type of fondant you used.
I don't see how freezing a fondant covered cake would work.

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prterrell Posted 11 Apr 2007 , 10:57pm
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bump.

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Melonie1005 Posted 11 Apr 2007 , 11:17pm
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Have you thought about making a small cake or cupcake and doing a test? I wish you luck, sorry I can't be more help.

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isabelianico Posted 11 Apr 2007 , 11:27pm
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I found this post posted by aoliveira

"I just made a cake this weekend and one of the decorations was covered in fondant and because it was cake underneath I froze it. I had no idea that you shouldn't freeze fondant. Well, when I took it out of the freezer and it thawed out, it was a big stick mess. And I guess the fondant gets soft so it slid off the cake and was tearing apart and got all wrinkly. I definitely learned my lesson the hard way.

I don't know why this happens but it does.

Alex"

here is a link as well

http://forum.cakecentral.com/freezing-fondantbc-cakes-ftopicp-894911.html#894911

my opinion is that it can be refrigerated and not frozen. Hope this helps! Good luck!

Kristin

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JenWhitlock Posted 11 Apr 2007 , 11:40pm
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I'm a newbie, and don't know much about handling fondant, but I just recieved a food catalog that offers a fondant covered cake for mother's day. the catalog says that it's frozen and is shipped over night to arrive cool.

http://www.zingermans.com/Product.pasp?Category=&ProductID=G%2DZDV&Target=&ShippingAddressID=

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revel Posted 11 Apr 2007 , 11:44pm
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I have frozen fondant covered cakes. They freeze fine just make sure that when you take it out of the freezer ..unwrap it it and don't touch it! Until all the moisture is evaporated.

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jnoel Posted 12 Apr 2007 , 3:36am
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I have frozen a cake covered in Satin Ice with great results. I just took it out, put in in a box, and didn't even look at it for about 10 hours. It thawed perfectly.

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