AHi everyone. I was wondering if you could help.
Ive been baking for quite a while (usually cupcakes). But I have decided to make my daughters birthday cak this year. The thing is cakes intimidate me lol.
So my question is how do you all prepare a cake from start to finish. When would you bake? Do you wrap warm or cold? Do you freeze/chill with your crumb coat?
Any help would be great. Thank you xx
I am the opposite! Cupcakes intimidate me!
I am only new to cake decorating but I hope I can still help you out.
For me, it really depends how close to the date i prepare the cake. So far, its a week in advance. I for a one tier cake I make two of the same size (one on top of the other). Once their both completely cooled I buttercream crumb coat them once put together. I leave it in the fridge for around a day or two if necessary, then cover it with fondant.
It also depends on what kind of cake you are making.
I hope I have been some help to you :)
Colleen26 you can do a search and find plenty of strings on how to do a cake from start to finish. Don't be intimidated, your daughters cake is perfect to practice on. Good Luck!
It depends on when it's needed and how much is going in/on it.
I only do cakes for family and friends right now, but say the cake is needed on a Saturday - I will bake on Thursday and level/fill/crumb coat then leave it in the fridge to firm up overnight. On Friday I will decorate, leaving me plenty of time to pick up something I forgot or fix something that's gone wrong! I don't always have a lot of notice with cakes for friends, I've done it in the space of about 6 hours before.
There's no need to worry about wrapping/freezing unless you need to make the cake weeks in advance for some reason. I do wrap warm and freeze unfrosted if I need to freeze a cake, usually because I had extra batter and made an extra tier for another day or something. I've never frozen a crumb coated cake, but if I was doing large quantities of cake I would probably consider it.
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