Do you refrigerate or freeze your cakes after you ice & decorate them? If so, why do you? Does it make the cake taste better? I've tasted cake that was frozen one time at a party & it tasted like the freezer. I have refrigerated buttercream cakes before with RI roses & when I took it out, the whole thing was sweating so bad water was running down the cake. The longer I left the cake out, the more it sweat. I've never even tried to refrigerate a fondant cake (too scared). Won't your fondant/gum paste decorations get soft & wet? Won't any paint/dyes drip & run down the cake? Won't it ruin the fondant? I know when I accidentally drop some water on a fondant cake, it leaves a tiny hole/indent in the fondant where the water was. I try to decorate my cakes 1-2 days before pick up. I leave them out & I keep the room very cold & I have not had any problems doing this.
Anyway, just trying to see what everyone else does?
I always refrigerate after decorating...fondant cakes also. I do this mainly because for travel purposes.,,or maybe a perishable filling, but mainly the travel thing. A room temperature cake is a dangerous cake to trannsport. After delivery and a couple hours at room temp...the cake is moist. I have to box my cakes that go in the commercial refrigerator as they do not have the humidity control that our household refirigerators do. If I am using a standard household refrigerator (I have 3 for cakes)..I do not need to box. They stay bone dry....may sweat a tad..but nothing at all to worry about.
AI've never had a tier slide off an unrefrigerated cake, but for me the reason is the cake is sturdier and doesn't move at all. It's a necessity where I live. It's nicknamed the Hill City. I'd rather have a sturdy cake than any wobbles at all. Just peace of mind.
Our roads are so crappy....one time when I delivered a wedding cake...one of the beads on the beaded border actually vibrated out of the border and was about an inch from the edge! I know the cold beads made it easier for it to bounce out of the line. I just thought that was so funny.
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