Hi gang,
I wondered if you could help me out. I have a customer who wants a cake for a date that I'm on vacation. I told her as much and she wants me to make it anyway and deliver it a week early. She's going to put it in a chest freezer until the date...8 days later.
So, do I just box them as usual and leave it at that? Do they have to be wrapped before going into boxes? How do you do this without the icing sticking to wrap? They are three square cakes with buttercream sides and will have fresh flowers on top. They aren't stacked or anything...to be displayed on separate stands.
Please help with freezing and/or defrosting instructions. I would really appreciate it. I am hoping that for that short of time, that all I need to do is box them as normal and that she has to take them out in the boxes the night before.
But I'm sure my life can't be easy. 
Suzanne M.
well if she is really insistant on using you this is what i would do. I would box them and them saran wrap the box and then i would but that box in a bag. Make sure all of the air is out of them. Then when she is going to take them out she need to leave all the bags and saran on and put them in the fridge to bring them closer to temp to deforst. After that she then need to put them on the coutner, in a cool room still. Still keep the plastic on till the cakes come to room temp. This will keep most condensation from building up ont he cake. But i would make sure she knows that you can not gurantee the taste or anything. Once you deliver you are done. If you are using darker colors they will bleed.
I made three cakes for my daughters wedding and made them a few weeks ahead because I h ad lots of company coming and didnt want to be doing them last minute.. I put them in the freezer and made sure they were frozen really hard and then I wrapped them in saran wrap..This way nothing gets squished when you wrap them. I took them to the hall frozen early in the day and took off the wrap and they were perfect that evening when she cut them. Liz
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