Can I Fill And Ice The Day Before?
Decorating By cakefort Updated 28 May 2010 , 12:42pm by chellescountrycakes
Can I fill and ice the day before, and stack and decorate the day of? I usually complete cakes the night before, but my old Wilton instructor told me not to and now I'm worried since this my first wedding cake...I don't trust my own instincts anymore
I always have mine finished at least the day before it's due. If anything goes wrong you have time to fix the problem.
I'm trying to understand why an instructor would give such advise. 
I don't mean to take over your thread but I have question as well. Can you bake, fill, and crum coat then freeze a couple days ahead. 4 days?
Yes you can.
Can I fill and ice the day before, and stack and decorate the day of? I usually complete cakes the night before, but my old Wilton instructor told me not to and now I'm worried since this my first wedding cake...I don't trust my own instincts anymore
It's best to do it the way that you stated so that your filled cake has time to settle.
I don't mean to take over your thread but I have question as well. Can you bake, fill, and crum coat then freeze a couple days ahead. 4 days?
I made a little cake for a family friend's boy who was turning 7. The party was scheduled for 5-20, on 5-19 I found out the birthday boy had strep throat and the party was cancelled. I told the mom that due to my work schedule the next week, I would have no time to redo another cake. She said, no problem, they'd take the cake anyway.
The cake was filled, iced in buttercream and already covered in fondant...so I just left it in my spare bedroom until today when they had the party. It was Macsmom's chocolate WASC with a PB buttercream filling...and it was just as moist as if it had been baked the day before!!
If you cover with fondant...it helps to "insulate" the cake...no air=moistness! You probably wouldn't need to freeze it.
I'm with everyone else. Depending on how early or late I'm baking or how many (I make HUGE cakes, liek with 6 11X15 cakes) I might start baking on Wend evening/night. let them settle, for a few hours, cool real good, throw in the freezer to make it easier to trim etc. then ice and let sit on Thursday and decorate on Friday. that way I can nitpick it all day. 
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