Costco Red Velvet Cupcakes?

kazd

Has anyone tried freezing these, it says not suitable for freezing but my friend has just dropped 5 round, obviously she did not like them but I have three left from our trip. At 760 calories each I would like to spread them out over several weeks (if not months).

Your thoughts please, they have a thick piped buttercream type frosting on them.

tessie_bear

goodness that is a lot of calories...are they huge ? i have frozen sponge cake very sucessfully but havent tried the buttercream...worth a try i would say

pavlovs_dog

the actual cake part should be fine, but I doubt the buttercream/icing would survive which in turn may spoil the rest of the cake upon defrosting.

If you can freeze them without any frosting you should be able to defrost without any issues

kazd

They are huge but they are gorgeous. The buttercream is divine so I think I will risk it. I have just remember I froze the top tear of my wedding cake which was lemon and that had a lemon buttercream type of icing and that was ok.

They were freebies so I might as well give it a go.

VfM4meplse

kazd wrote: »

At 760 calories each

:eek::eek::eek: 3 of them is equivalent to a whole day's calorie intake for a female!

The icing probably accounts for a lot of that. In your position I would go ahead and freeze them - just cut into eight slices a piece each first!

xneeniex

VfM4meplse wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: 3 of them is equivalent to a whole day's calorie intake for a female!

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breakfast, dinner & tea sorted, dont freeze, get all those yummy calories over with in a day

Angela

Red velvet cupcakes usually have cream cheese in the frosting perhpas thats why they say not suitable for freezing

fozziebeartoo

Angela wrote: »

Red velvet cupcakes usually have cream cheese in the frosting perhpas thats why they say not suitable for freezing

I wondered that too.....


But yesterday I defrosted HM carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, thinking the cream cheese would split and be horrible, but it was perfect, I was very surprised because I thought cream cheese would not like being frozen!

sew_what

There's no problem freezing cake and buttercream, but they've possibly been frozen already so re-freezing is a no-no.

kazd

I froze them and they were fine!

browneyedbazzi

Oh my, I've been debating getting a costco membership and I think this thread may have just pushed me over the edge. That's what to do on saturday morning sorted then!