Help! Crushed Cakes!

Decorating By allie73 Updated 9 Oct 2007 , 8:45pm by cwcopeland

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allie73 Posted 9 Oct 2007 , 2:09am
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This really couldn't have happened at a worse time. Since I knew I was going to be crazy busy this week, I baked all three tiers for this weekends cake several days ago and froze them.

Well....while I was at school today, my loving boyfriend went grocery shopping and then proceeded to cram as much as he could into the freezer, right on top of the cakes for the second tier. icon_mad.gif

They are so smooshed down in the centers, and the edge of one of them is no longer a nice, crisp edge, but a smashed in angle, and they are both compressed into ovals, rather than looking like circles. I don't know if I am more sick or LIVID. Probably utterly and completely livid. icon_evil.gif

Is there any hope that, when they defrost, they will "spring" back to life? I honestly don't know when I will have time to re-bake.

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peg818 Posted 9 Oct 2007 , 2:58am
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what did he do, let the cakes thaw before he cramed everything into the freezer. Cause really if they were frozen solid i wouldn't think they would have do that. Unfortunately, you will probably have to rebake

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indydebi Posted 9 Oct 2007 , 3:00am
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Well if you end up rebaking anyway, I'd be sure to cram the frozen ones right down his pants and dare him to remove them!

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KoryAK Posted 9 Oct 2007 , 6:33am
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Yikes, that totally sucks! No, they won't spring back.... looks like cake balls for weeks icon_sad.gif

perhaps you can just rebake the largest layers and cut the small one from the best parts of the medium and medium from the large?

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allie73 Posted 9 Oct 2007 , 8:29pm
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Well, it looks as if I'll need to rebake. Unfortunately, the cakes he ruined were orange butter cakes and they were completely delicious and meant to be filled with whipped chocolate-orange ganache. It's too time consuming to bake from scratch again so...time to quickly bake up something else. I am so disappointed.

Note to the rest of you, hard, frozen objects should NOT be ground into frozen cake layers!

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cwcopeland Posted 9 Oct 2007 , 8:45pm
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Originally Posted by indydebi

Well if you end up rebaking anyway, I'd be sure to cram the frozen ones right down his pants and dare him to remove them!




I've been baking and cleaning all day long. I just showered and put some makeup on and read this post. Now I'm laughing so hard my mascara is running.

I've done this before myself and they didn't spring back either. Now there's a designated shelf for my cakes.

Sorry this happend to you. It's one thing for ME to smash my cakes for totally another for someone else to.

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