I've been asked to do a wedding cake - sort of - for a wedding in June. The bride said that they are going to have cookies (as of right now a friend of bride is making the cookies) for the guests to eat, not cake. She wants a very small cake only for the couple to eat on their first wedding anniversary.
Personally, I have never frozen a cake and I don't think it would taste good after a year of being in the freezer. Do you think it would taste okay and what instructions should I give her on how to freeze the cake?
Any advice??
Thanks in advance!!
The instruction I've read are to put the cake in the box removing any decorations: ribbon, real flowers, ( i think gumpaste as well).
Wrap box in several layers of saran wrap then a layer of aluminum foil.
You can always offer to make it for her fresh for her anniversary instead of her freezing it for a year.
If her friend can't make the cookies in the end (pregnant and due shortly before the wedding) she has said that she will have me make the cookies which results in me making more money - YAY! If that is the case, I will absolutely offer to make her a fresh cake for her wedding anniversary and just do all dummies.
Thank you all!
When I got married, we wrapped the cake in plastic wrap and foil and put it in tupperware. A year later, it tasted fine.
I know it is in fashion right now to offer the couple a fresh cake for their anniversary, but I like the old-fashioned tradition of eating your actual wedding cake.
Mine froze okay and was okay a year later. It's one of those silly tradition things I guess. I didn't put mine in a box though. Mine was frozen for a couple of hours to harden and then wrapped like a mummy in Saran wrap. It was then wrapped in foil. I would have certainly enjoyed eating a fresh cake better on my anniversary, but I'd also rather not eat black eyed peas for New Years. Go figure.
I think that usually people end up freezing part of their original cake because they actually DO serve cake but since this is not the case here, I think it is a great idea for you to offer to make them a fresh one for their 1st anniversary.
That being said, we froze the top small tier from our wedding and ate it on our 1st anniversary (wrapped very similarly to waht LanaC described - plastic wrap and tin foil). It was just a little dry but still tasted pretty good! But cake has to be pretty "bad" for me to not eat it...
My cake was just as good after a year. Mom wrapped it in many, many layers of Saran and aluminum foil, and then put back in the box. It was covered in fondant, maybe that held in the moisture. We only ate a tiny bite for tradition sake though!
My aunt made my wedding cake and it was GREAT. And I don't even like cake. (But I love decorating them!!!) Anyway. I wrapped it in saran wrap, then in press and seal wrap, and then in tin foil, then I placed it in a box, wrapped the box in all the above. On our anniversary we took it out and it was great. Smelled just like the day we cut the other layers. The frosting did get a little crumbly, but it was great. I would say the tighter and more secure you can wrap it the better.
We ate our small tier the next day at the gift opening. I was too afraid to freeze. Also, didn't have the freeze space.
I wrapped ours up in saran wrap and put it in a tupperware container and then I know it sounds weird but but wrapped a trash bag around the whole thing, a tip one of my friends gave me but I have no clue why you do it, lol! Our cake was wonderful when we got it out for our anniversary and I like the tradition because you get to see a piece of your wedding all over again!
http://www.bredenbecks.com/freezingtips.php
The above has tips for freezing wedding cake. Same advice as LanaC and the others. Dehydration is what makes frozen foods nasty. So seal it well and use a butter cream type frosting, not egg white.
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