How Do You Freeze And Thaw A Cake Successully?
Decorating By aminaz Updated 4 Jun 2007 , 6:38pm by miriel
Wrap it three times in plastic wrap and then one layer of heavy duty foil. Freeze. The day before you need it remove it from the freezer and allow to come to room temperature. DO NOT remove any wrapping until all condensation has evaporated from the wrapping. Remember, condensation will appear on any thawing item due to humidity in the air. This does not mean it's losing moisture in the cake.
A cake wrapped and thawed like this will taste great even a year later.
HTH
Michele
I actually think the condensation helps the cake to become even more moist.........just leave it wrapped until it's totally room temp and it will reabsorb any moisture you see.......I make a point to freeze ALL of my cakes if I can even if it's just overnight because they taste so much more moist and delicious IMO
What about the information given by so many to go ahead and decorate the cake right out of the freezer?
I let mine come to room temp and was basically in the minority on another post in doing so.
I'm in the minority on this one as well. The first and last time I decorated a frozen cake was a disaster. The frosting slid off the sides and I had to make a new batch of frosting due to all the crumbs now mixed into the frosting.
Michele
Thank you Michelle!!!!
I tried to decorate 3 small cakes right out of the freezer and noticed spider-vein like cracks in the cake. It had to have been from icing/decorating the cake cold. Quit doing that and haven't had that trouble any more. Just wanted some verification that what I was doing wasn't wrong, etc. 
I always carve them frozen (serrated electric knife) works great for torting a frozen cake too....and I have decorated a frozen cake with frosting and then fondant......the princess tiara cake in my photos was done that way (bottom tier) I got tons of condensation on the fondant and I freaked out! lol but it dried up and was fine only issue I had was sagging once the cake was thawed completely (as you can see in the photo) but I did go back and correct it before the cake was picked up!!!
Don't know if this will help but I recall from one of my Wilton classes the instructor telling us if you freeze your cakes you must poke a few holes in them (like with a skewer or something) after they come out of the freezer. She had a name for it but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. Maybe someone else knows what I'm talking about.
Does anyone else level and tort their cakes before freezing? I'm used to decorating fresh cakes but have so many to do this week that I decided to try freezing. I hope I didn't screw up. Ack!
Don't know if this will help but I recall from one of my Wilton classes the instructor telling us if you freeze your cakes you must poke a few holes in them (like with a skewer or something) after they come out of the freezer. She had a name for it but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. Maybe someone else knows what I'm talking about.
is it docking?? I know that's the name when you poke holes in a pie crust.....maybe it's the same?
Wrap it three times in plastic wrap and then one layer of heavy duty foil. Freeze. The day before you need it remove it from the freezer and allow to come to room temperature. DO NOT remove any wrapping until all condensation has evaporated from the wrapping. Remember, condensation will appear on any thawing item due to humidity in the air. This does not mean it's losing moisture in the cake.
Does this work for any type of cake?
Thanks.
Wrap it three times in plastic wrap and then one layer of heavy duty foil. Freeze. The day before you need it remove it from the freezer and allow to come to room temperature. DO NOT remove any wrapping until all condensation has evaporated from the wrapping. Remember, condensation will appear on any thawing item due to humidity in the air. This does not mean it's losing moisture in the cake.
A cake wrapped and thawed like this will taste great even a year later.
HTH
Michele
I do it this way too - but only 1 layer of plastic wrap and one layer of heavy duty foil.
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