Freezing A Fondant Covered Cake
Decorating By SandraSmiley Updated 31 Mar 2019 , 2:39pm by SandraSmiley
OK ladies, I've frozen cakes in all stages, but never one covered in fondant. I have one tier frosted in buttercream and the other in milk chocolate ganache and planning to cover both with fondant. I would like to go ahead and cover and stack them, then freeze. Will this work? If so, should I put them in their box seal well with plastic wrap and thaw in the fridge still sealed in the box?
It will only be in the freezer for two days, max.
Thanks, cake geniuses!
Absolutely! I had a whole 2 tier cake done for my niece and the date changed, so I needed to hold it. I put it in a box, wrapped with plastic wrap, froze it, moved it to the fridge the day before the party, and to the counter later that night for the next day. Worked perfectly.
Thank you so much, ypierce82! That is exactly how I planned to do it. It is an Icing Smiles cake and I like to do as much as possible in advance, just in case something goes wrong and I need to go to plan B.
I will post it, ypierce82, unless I make a total disaster of it! Nothing really fancy.
Sandra, I'm late to the party but I just wanted to tell you that your cake will probably be perfect - can't wait to see it.
I froze 2 single-tier cakes - 1 buttercream and 1 fondant - for a week and then put them in an ice chest with dry ice and drove 23 hours to Monterrey. The fondant went on the counter (still in the box) for the wedding the next day and the buttercream went in the fridge. Two days later we pulled out the buttercream and let it sit on the counter while we went to graduation. They both were perfect and moist and I was very pleased with them.
You'll be fine. Go for it!
Thank you cakefan92. Well, I don't have to worry about freezing fondant because I could not get the tiers covered. I started with the tier that was frosted with buttercream. I was using Wilton fondant because I had it on hand to use with my models and was too lazy to make my usual LMF. It was drying out and cracking as soon as I put it on the cake. I took it off, kneaded in a lot of glycerine and a little Crisco and tried again. No go. This time, all the icing was falling off the cake. WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING????
I gave up on fondant and repaired the buttercream. Because I must have a white cake, I frosted the ganached tier with buttercream too. I could not get it smooth and I am scared to death it is going to fall off the cake. I have no clue what is wrong with it unless it is because I am using Crisco instead of the old high ratio Sweetex. Thank goodness this is not a wedding cake!
This is the cake that just about done me in! I was unable to cover it with fondant. The buttercream just turned to mush as soon as the fondant touched it. I was luck to get it to stay on the cake because it really didn't even want to stick. It's the #$%%&W*( Crisco, I know it is! I wound up airbrushing the buttercream, which seemed to work fine.
ypierce82, I usually make my own marshmallow fondant, but had this on hand to use for models and decided to use it. It felt dry and started to crack as soon as I draped it over the cake. I pulled it off and added a bunch of glycerine and a little Crisco and it felt better. The major problem, though, was the frosting. It was ABC made with all shortening because I was instructed that it had to be white. As it turned out, I airbrushed it so it would have been OK with butter. From the beginning, it appeared to be slightly split and, even though it was much, much stiffer than I usually make frosting, it lost it's crush as soon as I took it out of the fridge. It was like trying to apply fondant over pudding. I've made buttercream with half butter and half Crisco (since transfats have been removed) and it worked better, but this is the first time using all Crisco. It was even hard to frost the cake. The icing didn't want to stick to it. Weird, weird! I was so happy it made it to the birthday party with the icing still attached!
cakefan92, thank you! I had never heard of such a thing, had to Google it. Pouring the "ink" all over the cake was my favorite part!
Thank you, ypierce82!
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