First Wedding Cake Question!!! Help!
Decorating By Sweetbeth Updated 2 Feb 2011 , 9:47pm by tryingcake
Hi everybody,
My customer wants to know if I can deliver the wedding cake the day before and have it sit out overnight. There isn't any cream on it, just raspberry filling covered in buttercream. I think it would be ok but want your alls input! Thanks!
Beth
That's a really bad idea...It just gives it way too long to sit out and have it knocked over/fingers stuck into it/have something smash it. And guess who she'd be calling to complain about it.
it should be fine to sit out overnight. make sure its away from any direct heat or sunlight. if there is a refrigerater on-site that would be even better. like the other comments, i would recommend taking pictures as well. dont stress. you'll do great!
Sitting out over night will not hurt the cake - but like others said get a waiver signed and know that you charge extra for emergency repairs.
Been there - done that: a five-year old can reek havoc on an unattended cake. I got it fixed, but it was NOT the cake they ordered or the cake I delivered. It was a pretty cake - but not what they ordered. Get a signature!!
I did this once... to help out a bride in need. Her baker cancelled on her a month before the wedding due to an ill family member. She called and asked me to please help her out. I already had plans to be out of town for the weekend, leaving at 3 pm on Friday. In order to help her, I delivered the cake on my way out of town. I took loads of pics and made sure she and the family knew that I was in no way responsible for the cake after I left. They made sure there were no kids anywhere around as they were setting up/decorating for the reception too. (Around here the families do their own decorating for most events.)
It worked out fine!
I prefer to leave my cakes at room temperature unless of course there is something perishable in it.
I agree with the rest of the posts--take LOTS of pictures if you plan on leaving it overnight.
Is this a cooked fruit filling or fresh? From a previous post, I read cooked fruit fillings have to be refrigerated, fresh does not. This is always a big question for me, I prefer to leave cakes at room temp. What does everyone else do?
I use sleeved fillings.
Is this a cooked fruit filling or fresh? From a previous post, I read cooked fruit fillings have to be refrigerated, fresh does not. This is always a big question for me, I prefer to leave cakes at room temp. What does everyone else do?
With few exceptions that override the rule - the fridge is a cake's #1 nemesis.
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