When Do You Bake????? Please Help!!
Decorating By rachpizano Updated 10 Aug 2009 , 9:01pm by Janette
My husband and I have been having a fierce fight lately over when to bake cakes. Right now we bake in Thursday for sat but lately we end up staying up all night to finish and its just NOOO fun. How far in advanced can you bake and the cake it still good and moist. We had a problem a year ago with some of our cakes being dry and Im sooo scared to go back to that again. Any ideas would be great.
THanks
"The Very tired cake decorator"
Rachel Pizano
my husband bakes on sunday and monday night for the weekend. He is baking now and he wraps the cakes up with plastic wrap and puts them in the big freezer and we ALWAYS have people tell us how moist our cakes are.
I sometimes bake a week in advance and store it in the freezer. It is all the matter of storing it properly to keep it moist.
Wrap it in layers of plastic wrap making sure it is sealed and then put it in a ziploc bag/freezer bag or foil the bigger ones.
Ditto to all the above. Except I'm still up late Friday/Saturday night decorating. 
I'm just a slow decorator, I guess 
I bake on Thursdays like you. I do not freeze my cakes though so baking earlier is not an option. When I was working from home I was in the same situation of a long Thursday baking. In my shop I can bake 4 Wedding Cakes at a time in my oven so it does help. I had a few busy weekends where I had to start Wednesday evening because it was just too much. In that case - I would wrap the cakes really well after they were completely cooled and then make sure that I iced the cake I baked on Wednesday on Friday morning so that the moisture was trapped inside the cake. I never had any problems with cakes drying out either...I think wrapping is the key if you would like to start a bit earlier. And - if you do not have the freezer space (like I didn't) it should still be fine.
So if you bake, wrap, and freeze on say Monday, and your cake is due on Saturday, on what day would you thaw them to decorate?
After the cake is decorated, what do you do with it until it's delivery day?
Everyone says not to put fondant cakes in the fridge, but they do it on TV all the time 
I want to know your minute by minute schedule! LOL!
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