freezing cakes

tert in seattle said:

anything special I ought to know about freezing cakes?

I want to store them for 1-2 months

Just make sure they're well-wrapped so they don't dry out and get
freezerburn... other than that cakes freeze fine. You can freeze them
whole or in pieces - sometimes I cut a cake up and freeze it so I can
have a piece when I get a hankering for it and it slows me down!

On Tue 16 May 2006 03:02:10p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Karen AKA
Kajikit?

Quoted message said:

tert in seattle said:

anything special I ought to know about freezing cakes?

I want to store them for 1-2 months

Just make sure they're well-wrapped so they don't dry out and get
freezerburn... other than that cakes freeze fine. You can freeze them
whole or in pieces - sometimes I cut a cake up and freeze it so I can
have a piece when I get a hankering for it and it slows me down!

Yeah, it takes longer to eat them when they're frozen. :-)

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Wayne Boatwright
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"How can a nation be great if it's bread taste like Kleenex?"

Julia Child

Like already mentioned, you need to seal them up very well.
They can start to dry out after 24 hours in the freezer. I haven't
frozen anything that was already frosted, either, so I can't
weigh in on that.

I have been using one of those wire slicers and cutting mine
down to under an inch in thickness, and freezing them makes
them wonderfully manageable when it comes to stacking them
and, of course, they tend to "shed" less when you're icing a
frozen cake.

I really like the freezing part because if I am going to put a
lot of effort in on the decorating, it's nice for the labor to not
be back-to-back. So far I haven't frozen mine for any longer
than a week.

Michael

tert in seattle said:

anything special I ought to know about freezing cakes?

I want to store them for 1-2 months

No problem... frozen cakes last about a week each... that's about how
long before you'll eat them. It's a proven scientific fact, frozen
cake gets eaten in about half the time of unfrozen cake... chocolate
cake in 1/4 the time.... frozen chocolate brownies disappear at the
rate of one panful a day.

Sheldon

Quoted message said:

Like already mentioned, you need to seal them up very well.
They can start to dry out after 24 hours in the freezer. I haven't
frozen anything that was already frosted, either, so I can't
weigh in on that.

I have been using one of those wire slicers and cutting mine
down to under an inch in thickness, and freezing them makes
them wonderfully manageable when it comes to stacking them
and, of course, they tend to "shed" less when you're icing a
frozen cake.

I really like the freezing part because if I am going to put a
lot of effort in on the decorating, it's nice for the labor to not
be back-to-back. So far I haven't frozen mine for any longer
than a week.

thanks for the replies, even you Sheldon

I assume once they're frozen I can stack them on top of each other
and they should be able to bear some weight.

Someone suggested storing them on their side ... I guess if they're
frozen solid it shouldn't matter.

Sheldon said:

No problem... frozen cakes last about a week each... that's about how
long before you'll eat them. It's a proven scientific fact, frozen
cake gets eaten in about half the time of unfrozen cake... chocolate
cake in 1/4 the time.... frozen chocolate brownies disappear at the
rate of one panful a day.

In my house they do not even make it into the freezer. Even if I make
two spring form pans in the evening. A half is gone before we go to bed,
the other half is gone before I go to work in the morning. I bring one
quarter of the second one to work. When I come home only one quarter is
left in the pan. When dinner is ready, there is nothing left.

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