June 2009 Weddings
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Frozen Cake
My first anniversary is this Sunday (woohoo) and I was thinking about our cake in the freezer. Anyone have any thoughts on when I should get it out?
Also, thought I would throw in a poll for good measure.
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Re: Frozen Cake
Our baker said the frosting we chose wouldn't freeze well at all, so we ate ours on our honeymoon.
It was nice to get to enjoy it while it was still fresh and we weren't rushed like at the wedding.
ETA: We had buttercream frosting as well.
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I voted SS.
A month after the wedding, I realized our frozen layer was not secured very tightly, so I dethawed it and tried it. While the cake portion was good, the buttercream icing was really weird tasting, So I dumped it. I'm having our cake lady make us a little 6" for our anniversary. I'd rather fresh cake over year old frozen anyway.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
We froze it and ate it for our 1 month anniversary. It was good but not great. Our cake baker came with our venue so it probably wasn't what I would have chosen had I gotten to choose the cake baker myself. But it was nice to get to have some of it, since we were too busy for cake on the wedding day.
For our anniversary, I will probably go somewhere else and get a better tasting look-alike cake.
Ours is frozen. I called our cake shop a few days ago and asked how to defrost it since they gave us special instrustions on how to freeze it. The lady said to take it out of the freezer, unwrap it and put it in the fridge 2-3 days before you want to eat it. It sounds easy enough. I'm hoping it will still be good
Ours is gone, but we are ordering another one for our anniversary. Luckily, our cake was kind of famous so they ship it all over the world on a regular basis!
http://www.peninsulagrill.com/coconut.asp
Megs, it is! I don't even like coconut cake in general, but this blew my mind! I had two guests actually call the restaurant back and ask for the recipe because they couldn't stop thinking about it. LOL.
It's been featured on just about every tv show too, Martha Stewart did a whole segment on it. So, if you ever need an amazing, crowd-pleasing cake~I highly recommend this!
Buttercream doesn't freeze well?
The venue was not supposed to save the top tier of our cake, but they didn't cut it and my MIL froze it while we were on our honeymoon. The top tier was designed to be cut and is 30 servings of cake. We have an entire cake frozen waiting to be eaten on the 27th...
This is pretty much what happened to us. We were going to serve the top layer, but more people rsvp'd no that we expected and they didn't need to serve it. So they saved it for us. We'll see if it's any good.
I just hope it tastes good because there is soooo much of it. At $3 a slice (or whatever we paid, I can't remember) that's money going to waste.
Ours was frozen - but I didnt do it so I'm not sure how well it was wrapped up and such. Its in my ILs freezer so I haven't even seen it. We are going to pick it up tomorrow night and unwrap it and put it in the refrigerator in my cake carrier. Make sure you unwrap the cake before thawing or the icing will all come off with the plastic wrap. Also make sure you thaw in the refrigerator or the icing will sweat as the moisture comes out of it. I'm not really thinking ours will be very good but for tradition we're still going to have a bit. I think our top tier was something like 20 servings so we'll have way too much cake but oh well.
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This was my cake:
So, if we'd frozen the top layer, all we'd have are some dead flowers and very cold little bride and groom figurines.
We talked about freezing a cupcake, but we ordered 150 and they were ALL GONE by the end of the night (and we had less than 150 guests...and those were huge flippin' cupcakes!). Luckily, the baker is local, so we can get cupcakes there whenever we'd like (we've actually gone twice this year already).
We decided we're probably not going to go on our anniversary, though, because we didn't actually eat a cupcake at the wedding. The bite we each got when we cut one/fed each other a piece was all we had time to eat!
I mentioned to DH the other day that we'll get to have wedding cake this weekend, and he thought I was crazy! He 1, didn't realize that we'd saved our top tier (well, my mom did), and 2, had never heard of the tradition of saving it.
This is us. I need the freezer space. I'm probably going to buy an ice cream cake this weekend!