How Far In Advance Can I Prepare A Cake

Decorating By mschroder1 Updated 6 Apr 2007 , 4:24am by indydebi

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mschroder1 Posted 6 Apr 2007 , 2:53am
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Good Day!
I'm making a cake for Sunday, however, I want to make the cake Thursday evening, and ice it with buttercream. I was hoping to decorate it Saturday, and then present it at dinner for Sunday. Will the cake be okay? Too dry? Or go bad? I'm just going to be using a chocolate and yellow sponge cake.
thanks in advance!

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indydebi Posted 6 Apr 2007 , 3:17am
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baked, iced and decorated my daughter's baby shower cake on Thursday for a saturday party. stored it in the frig until sat. it tasted as fresh as straight out of the oven. I put a couple of leftover slices in a ziploc bag and ate one the following wed (one week old). it was still great!

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debrab Posted 6 Apr 2007 , 3:23am
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A good friend of mine asked me to make a cake for her Easter dinner. I offered to bring it to her Saturday, but she wanted it tomorrow at work. I told her to keep it in the fridge and it should be fine! I baked it tonight.

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mschroder1 Posted 6 Apr 2007 , 3:45am
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Thank you so much!
Another question if you don't mind....the recipe calls for self raising flour, but can i just use regular flour instead?

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christeena Posted 6 Apr 2007 , 4:03am
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To the best of my knowledge, they are NOT interchangeable! Self-rising has a leavening agent already in it so you will have to adjust the recipe accordingly!

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indydebi Posted 6 Apr 2007 , 4:24am
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found this info for you....

http://www.cdkitchen.com/features/data/tip1039734519.shtml

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Flour (self-rising) Substitute

For 1 cup, use 1 cup all-purpose flour plus 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/8 teaspoon salt.

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