I'm going to visit family this week & would love to bring a cake. However, it is a 12 hour drive (over two days). To make it work, I'd have to:
-bake Wednesday night
- fill (ganache), ice (butter/crisco icing), cover with fondant (mmf) on Thursday morning.
- assemble (2 tier stacked) & decorate Saturday evening
- serve on Sunday
Do you think it will stay fresh that long? I plan to use a moist, dense scratch butter cake. I've had leftovers stay fresh for several days, so I'm inclined to think it will be ok. However, these family members have never had one of my cakes, so I don't want to serve them anything gross!
Any suggestions or comments will be appreciated - thanks!!!
Bec
Wednesday seems a bit early for a Sunday. I don't know. Here's a bump so that you can get some more opinions.
It really depends on the cake but I can tell you one experience of mine. I use box mixes (straight up, no extenders). Anyway I made a fondant covered 2 tier cake for my course 3 finale... I baked it Sun, b/c iced and covered it Mon and "accessorized" it Mon night. I then put it in my fridge and did not cut it until Fri night. It was perfect and moist and tasty 
Even stayed moist for many days after as we finished it up.
So really I think it comes down to how long your cake mix will stay fresh. Box mixes stay moist for so long but I know most of my scratch ones I've tried so far dry out much faster once cut. That said, sealed up in fondant and ganache they might be just fine.
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