Freezing wedding cake?

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My daughter has seen some white-iced rich fruit cakes, ready to decorate, in Tesco. She is wondering if she can buy them and freeze them for her wedding in a few months. That will save her about £100!. Can you freeze iced cakes and if so, do you have to take them out of the box to freeze them?

Any advice from those in the know please

SUESMITH_2

i would imagine that the icing would go a bit funny, maybe sticky, although i have just found this on the internet:

It used to be traditional to keep a layer of wedding cake for the christening of the first child but, these, days, with so many couples choosing to wait before having children, it’s more usual to save it for the first wedding anniversary celebration. A frozen fruit cake will keep well for this length of time – and even longer. Before freezing remove any loose ornaments, ribbon or other decoration. Then put the cake, uncovered, into the freezer until the icing is frozen. After that you’ll need to wrap it very well, beginning with a layer of cling film to make it as airtight as possible. Follow that with at least two layers of thick foil, and another layer of cling film to finish it off.
The icing should keep for a year but, longer than that and, you may prefer to chip it off, leaving the marzipan ready for re-icing.


they normally have a long sell by date on fruit cakes, would they expire before the big day?

poppy-glos

i'm aware of keeping or freezing cake without icing. i'd check the useby date and if's within a couple of months keep in a cool room just in the boxes without freezing.

LegalBlonde

i have no idea but i always thought you were meant to freeze a tier of it to have as your christening cake as mentioned above so presumably it would be okay??

LegalBlonde

PS are they on special offer in tesco at the mo, if not could she not just order them online a week or two before the big day?

greenbee

If they're fruit cakes, then they should last out of the freezer!

I store my sugarpaste icing in the freezer, so I don't see that it will come to any harm, but traditionally cakes are frozen uncovered.

If the top tier is kept for a christening, it usually has the icing removed (not the marzipan) and is re-iced.

I guess if it doesn't work, she can always recover them, as you can buy both marzipan (get the white) and sugarpaste in bulk on line. It might be cheaper to make the cakes herself though, if she has the time, and freeze them now for icing the week before.

chris_n_tj

iced fruit cake should keep well if kept in an air tight container, wrapped in geeseproof paper. We used to make and ice our works xmas cakes in early October and they were fine. Do not use cling film or anything that would make them sweat.

purpleivy

Sugar paste will discolour on a fruit cake in a damp environment.

We got married in August 1986. The top layer of the cake was put in the freezer and used for christening cake in December 1990. It was OK, not marvellous. On the other hand, short term storage of fruit cake in the freezer is fine.

The OP is right in saying that short term should be OK without freezing. Mum finished the last of her last year's Christmas cake the week before CHristmas and said it was fine. Cake needs to be kept in a cool dry place though, pantry or similar. Centrally heated houses not that good.

I was taught that iced cakes should NOT be kept in an airtight container, for the same reason that they shouldn't be in clingfilm. Cling film if used well is airtight. Cake boxes are good.

lisa26_2

If you decide to keep it unfrozen in a container try to get a tin rather than a plastic box......plastic boxes make the icing 'sweat' and it will go sticky and yuck!