Newbie Question: Storing Homemade Biscuits & Cakes

pinkwitch76

Hiya,
I've been inspired to start cooking more things ffrom scratch, but I'm a bit clueless as to how long things keep and how best to store them. It bothers me that I've been wasting food when I could've just stored it better!

How long do homemade biscuits keep for in a tin? Can I freeze them?

Can anyone point me to a good reference for this stuff?
Help! :-)

BitterAndTwisted

Home-made biscuits keeping? Good luck with that!

And yes, they can be frozen, but they will probably need another couple of minutes in the oven to crisp them up again. Cakes won't.

Don't forget that if you have both cake and biscuits they need to be stored in separate air-tight containers.

This_Year

Home made cake or biscuits in this house last as long as no-one is home

Linda32

I've heard people say they freeze them so that the family don't scoff the lot

Yes biscuits and cakes freeze just fine. These a recipe on here called Twinks - they are hobnobs. I make a batch of these and freeze them 6 at a time in a freezer bag. These defrost perfectly.

[Deleted User]

Well I made 3 dozen HM biscuits on Saturday morning and a Victoria sponge cake plus a fruit cake I have three quarters of the fruit cake left, no Victoria sponge cake and only about 8 biscuits ,but then I have four strapping grandsons who eat for England as a team sport and especially if I let them near my biscuit and cake tins :):)Just store the cakes in a separate box from the biscuits but beware biscuit making is addictive

peachyprice

I bake on a Sunday, the cake, if it hasn't been scoffed, will stay fresh all week, although it's usually all gone by Thur-Fri.

For cookies I make dough that can be kept in the fridge or frozen and you just slice off and cook as many as you want at a time, so fresh cookies every day.

scaredy_cat

i'm single and i've made a coffee cake with buttercream and just stored it in a cake tin. It lasted a week and only towards the end of the week did the buttercream start leaching into the sponge. it was still ok to eat though.

Steve059

Does the tin have a padlock?

Link to the Twink's hobnobs thread ...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/471992.

krlyr

I've heard that keep a slice of bread in with a cake will prefer it going stale - the bread will go solid but the cake stay soft
http://www.createdby-diane.com/2012/07/no-stale-cake.html
http://lifehacker.com/5877891/keep-cakes-moist-overnight-with-a-slice-of-bread
Not actually tried it out yet though!

jackomdj

Things never last here either. They like my cakes and biscuits here!

angelpye

I froze no egg banana bread recently and it was fine when it defrosted. I also freeze fairy cakes often and they are fine too.