In two weeks, I will be traveling to Iowa (500 miles away) for an 80th birthday party for my aunt. I am taking the cakes/cupcakes. I thought about making the cake (small two tiered) and the cupcakes (about 200) and freezing them early in the week and then the morning of the trip, take them all out and travel with them, thawing on the way. The party is the day after I get there. Do you think I should ice them before freezing them or wait until I get to Iowa to do this? (I'll just take bowls of icing with me, if I do that). And do you have any suggestions regarding the two tiered birthday cake? I keep dwelling on all this so decided to ask all of you out there! Thanks so much!
Personally, I prefer not to freeze iced cakes. Seems like no matter how I wrap them and let them thaw in the wrappings a bit of condensation still developes. Since you have so many cupcakes AND a 2 tiered cake to do, can you frost them a day ahead of time and not freeze and just finish them when you get there? Seems like if you didn't have anything done ahead of time you'd be working all day and part of the night (or I would, I'm so slow!) to get these done by the next day. Either way you slice it, that's still a lot of work to get done after such a long drive. IF you decide to freeze an iced cake, I would let it set up in the freezer for an hour or so and then wrap it as tightly as possible, the actual cake on the board, NOT the cake in a box. I recently froze an iced cake in a box wrapped in saran and foil and let it thaw in the wrappings and the top had a little condensation on it.
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