Freezing Q - cakes and biscuits

csarina

I usually freeze mine undecorated, but they will freeze ok if they are iced first, put them on a tray in the freezer and when they are hard put them in a poly bag, when you want to use them, just take them out of the bag and allow to thaw matrually, you could in fact put them in the lunch box frozen, by the time they come to eat them, they will have thawed.

annaangeluk_2

Hi,

I'm just wondering, can I freeze cooked shortbread type biscuits? I know a lot of biscit dough can be frozen but I'm not sure once they've been cooked!

I'm trying to get ahead of the game and get the freezer stocked up with "snacks" for dd's lunchbox when she goes back to school in september! I wanted to freeze the cooked biscuits sandwiched together with jam/lemoncurd etc but not sure if they'll go all soggy!

Also, I'd appreciate any other recipes for snacks that I can just defrost and then they're ready to go!

Thanks in advance

Anna x

Pitlanepiglet

Not biscuits but I freeze Twinks Hobnobs (made with choc chips but you could use dried fruit to be bit healtier!). I also make traybake sponge and ice it with a fudgey type icing that sets, I chop it into squares, open freeze it and then put it into a freezer bag with each bit unwrapped. I just take out one piece of iced sponge at a time. You could make individual fairy cakes which might be easier for DD.

Sunny_Donny

I also freeze twinks biscuits and banana cake - I cut it into slices before freezing and take out a slice as needed - it's defrosted by dinnertime.
Recipes on Grocery challenge thread

jockettuk

Hi got a large halloween party at the end of the month and to be truthful i normally make cookies and cakes for kids from packets.. :eek: :eek: but i need to know can i pre cook cookies and freeze them without toppings ( got cookie cutters at hand) and cakes fairy cakes etc

oh and if i can can someone please post recipes for cookies and fairy cakes before i have to rummage for my cookery books

thanks

rose :T :T

Pink.

Hi Jockettuk,

There's an earlier thread that should help so I've added your post to it,

You should find recipes on these threads:

Fairy Cakes....

I wanna make some cookies!

Pink

chem_j

Hi,
I'm having a charity coffee morning next Friday, and I want to do as much of the baking in advance as possible. Does anyone have any tips for recipes than can be frozen or made in advance and kept, either baked, or unbaked and cooked the night before?
I'm thinking of making scones, flapjacks, shortbread, chocolate chip cookies, toffee shortbread, cake etc.
Thanks!

ChocClare

Everything baked can be frozen, more or less.

For a coffee morning of easy bakes, you could try:

Basic traybake:
6oz soft margarine
6oz caster sugar
8oz self raising flour
1.5 tsps baking powder
3 eggs
3 tblsps milk
Preheat oven to gas 4. Line roasting tin with greaseproof paper. Beat all ingredients with a whisk for two minutes. Bake about 30-35 mins. Leave to cool in tin and cut into 21 pieces.
Chocolate version:
Blend 3 tblsps cocoa with 3 tblsps hot water. Add to mixture instead of milk.
Chocolate icing:
3oz butter
2oz cocoa
8oz icing sugar
2 tblsps milk
Melt butter and cocoa; beat in icing sugar and milk. Spread over cake.
Lemon version:
Add grated rind of 1.5 lemons to mixture.
Icing: 3 tblsps lemon juice, 8oz icing sugar. Mix together; spread over cake.
Fruit version:
Add 8oz currants or sultanas to basic mixture; bake 30-35 mins, add 2 tblsps demerara sugar 3/4 of the way through cooking to give a crunchy topping.

You can freeze this; defrost and ice afterwards.

Flapjacks:
4oz butter
4oz sugar
1 tblsp golden syrup
5oz oats
(You can double these amounts)
Preheat oven to gas mark 3. Grease a 7" square tin. Melt butter, sugar and syrup together; add oats. Tip into tin. Cook 35 mins till golden brown; mark into squares while still warm. Allow to cool in tin.

You can freeze this too, but it will keep for a week easily in an airtight tin.

Teabread:
8oz sultanas or currants or a mixture
4oz sugar
1 beaten egg
8oz self raising flour
8.5 oz hot tea (make yourself and your partner a cup of tea; put the leftover teabags in a jug and add boiling water; leave to steep for 5 minutes, then chuck away the teabags)
Pour tea over sultanas just before bedtime. The next day, you will have nice, plump sultanas! Add the dry ingredients and stir; then stir in the beaten egg (the mixture will be quite sloppy). Grease a loaf tin; cook for one hour at gas mark 4; turn the heat down to gas mark 3 and cook a further half hour. (The cake should move away from the sides of the tin; a skewer inserted in the middle should come out clean).
This will keep for a week or will freeze wonderfully. Served sliced, spread with butter.

Pretend Apple Danish:
These look expensive and upmarket; they aren't, but they are yummy.

One packet of puff pastry (block or ready-rolled)
2 or 3 apples
1oz butter
Good handful of sultanas or currants
Sugar to taste
Icing sugar
Bottle of almond essence (you don't need all of it!)

Stew apples with butter, sugar, a tablespoon of water and the sultanas. Let cool. You want a fairly firm mixture but you don't want actual slices left.

Roll out pastry and cut into 4" squares. Moisten the edges with almond essence; put a spoonful of apple mixture in the middle and fold into a triangle. Press down the edges well and cut two holes in the top. You can freeze at this stage if you wish. Cook in a hot oven (gas mark 6) for 10 minutes or so until the pastry is cooked. (You can do this the night before.) When cool, cover with a fairly runny icing make of icing sugar and water; just before serving, pop under the grill for a few minutes to warm through and glaze the icing.

Scones freeze very well, as does biscuit dough; however, you can just make up the biscuit dough, roll into a tube and leave it in the fridge, then cut rounds off your tube and bake them. There are millions of recipes online for these, or if you're stuck, just ask me and I'll post you some!

Best of luck with your coffee morning - I am the afternoon tea queen (as you may have gathered) - hope it goes well!

chem_j

Thanks for that. Do you freeze the scones before or after they're cooked?
I hadn't thought of apple danishes, so I'll definitely have to give that a go!

ChocClare

I freeze scones after they're cooked - I like them warm so generally warm them through before I eat them anyway.