Freezing A Completely Decorated Cake
Decorating By rigatare Updated 25 May 2006 , 1:36pm by thecakemaker
Hello everyone,
A fellow baker shared this site with me today 
(Lucky me). I am very impressed with all of the expertise that is shared here. Has anyone had any experience with freezing a completely decorated wedding cake-sizes 8", 10" and 12"? If so, how did you prepare the cakes for freezing, after completly decorating the cake?
I have read the following: freezing the completley decorated cake in a carboard cake box with either wraped the cake box in foil or not wraping the cake box in foil. I have also read about freezing the completely decorated cake till firm, then wraping the completly decorated cake with foil and placing the cake wraped in foil in a ziplock bag. And, I have also been told to just put the completely decorated cake in a air tight container that is wraped in foil--the air tight container. Any sugestions????? Also, how would you defrost the completely decorated cake.
I need to make the cakes on sat and sun of one week to have it for that Saturday. I will need to defrost on Friday to bring to the reception hall.
The cake is a butter cake with buttercream frosting
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated 
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Happy Baking .
Thank you.
Rigatare
welcome, indeed it is wonderful here. im not to sure myself, try searching in the forums, i know this has been brought up many times. Goodluck
The only thing I have to go by is the top layer of my wedding cake. My ex-mil (well, new mil then) packed it in miniature marshmallows, and then in tupperware. It was a bit sweeter a year later, but it was still delicious, and the decorations (bc) were still in decent shape. I would recommend, however, doing the decs early enough to let them dry on the cake (crust really really good) before freezing so they don't squish, and have extra icing ready for touch-ups.
I've done this several times and recommend it to all brides. I wrap with fully decorated cake in saran wrap (usually use toothpicks if decorations are not to be disturbed). Then wrap with foil, then wrap with a plastic bag such as a Walmart one. Then put in a box to freeze. To unthaw we unwrap it all and let it unthaw either in the fridge or on the kitchen counter. Never have had any decorations fall off or anything.
I just did this last week. I had 3 wedding cakes in one weekend, so I made one the week before and froze it and worked on the other two during that week. For the cake I froze, I put each tier in it's own box and covered the box in plastic wrap. Tinfoil is not air tight, so I would go with plastic wrap. To defrost, I took the cakes out of the freezer on Friday night and set them on the counter, leaving them in the boxes. I removed the plastic wrap in the morning and opened the boxes to let any remaining condensation dry. The cakes can be fully decorated, with one exception. No colored frosting. These cakes were to be decorated with neon colors, so I did not pipe on the colored decorations until that moring. Sometimes when thawing, the condensation causes the color to bleed down your cake. Add any colored decorations after thawing.
Sweetart is right about the "No color". I had several cakes to make in one week, and chose to froze one. I decorated a shower cake in baby blue icing with white borders, and when I went to thaw it, the blue faded onto the white border. Fortunetly it kind of added to the effect, so it was fine, but I wouldn't do it again!
So my advice would be to just ice the cake, freeze it, and then decorate it after thawing. Unless of course the cake is completely white!
Thanks SweetArt! I may need to do this for some wedding cakes in August!
Debbie
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