Good sweet treats to freeze

wigginsmum

Lemon drizzle cake cut into slices freezes well and defrosts naturally in minutes.

jaxxy00

I have just made 60 cakes for Halloween when the kids come knocking for trick or treat. I have yet to make more and some choc cookies. I was wondering wether to ice the fairy cakes now and then freeze them which i would rather do but will the icing be ok?

Im going to ice in black icing, spider webs, spiders etc. The sponge i have done one batch in green, one in plain and another in red. Getting all excited now !!:j

Downsizing__for_sanity

To be honest I think you'd be better to ice them afterwards - the icing might go sticky or run as they defrost.

kittiwoz

You could ice one tonight and freeze it and put the rest in the fridge, then defrost the tester cake tomorrow to see how the icing holds up. Depends which you think will be more hassle. They sound great. I love Halloween too.

Horasio

I would ice them after defrosting. It will look a lot fresher.

jaxxy00

Silly me! Ive just realised ive never even frozen fairy cakes before. So any advice on that please? Ive also got a batch of chocolate coated flapjacks sitting there that keep vanishing one by one everytime i look :eek: They are supposed to be for packing up.

So can i freeze the flapjacks too and how do i freeze both the flapjacks and the fairy cakes? Just put them in a freezer bag and stick them in the freezer?
And how about thawing out, just leave them on the side in the bag?

Its yorkshire puddings that i made batches of the other day and froze. Ive got a new combi microwave so going a bit bake happy

twink

i would ice before freezing too, yes they will freeze easily but i would choose a box to put them in esp fairy cakes, but a bag would do and freeze and thaw as you said

Herbaholic

I have frozen iced buns before but it's been fairly hit and miss in my experience, so now I freeze the cakes and ice when defrosted. That applies if you're using glace icing (the sort made with icing sugar and water), glace ising tends to go meggy runny and melt down the side of the cakes when you defrost it, the freezing seems to water the icing down from my observations. I've tried making the icing slightly thicker than usual but it's a pain to spread then, any tips welcomed. My Mum always said you shouldn't decorate a cake before freezing but she never said why.

The best solution I've found is using fondant icing, the stuff you roll out, I use a flutted pastry cutter two thirds the size of the bun and attach the icing with a little blob of jam. It defrosts well and you can add decoration quickly with those little icing tubes in different colours. Last year we got a set from Asda with black, white and orange icing tubs, black and white tiny sugar bats and stars and some plastic ghosts, bats etc. I love halloween as well, too bad my stepson is now too old (his words) for halloween :eek:

jaxxy00

Herbaholic wrote:

I love halloween as well, too bad my stepson is now too old (his words) for halloween :eek:

Yes my daughters are now almost 16 and 18 so they really are not interested but i try and get them to join in like they did when they were little. More for my benefit than theirs though i think

mookybargirl

I'm 26, no kids and I LOVE halloween. OH thinks I'm a bit mad.

I'll be decorating the house a little and making some weird and wonderful halloween foods