This week I was asked to make a cake for a baby shower. Last minute, but if I could make it work I would. The biggest problem I had was not that the person needed it a day before the party so that they could travel to the destination. It was that I am going away with my family and I would need to complete it 3 days prior to the shower. Not exactly ideal circumstances or timing. After reading different opinions on different baking websites I found that some people decorate and freeze cakes with the claim that no one notices, while others won't do it because it compromises the cake. I have never frozen a decorated cake before so I just don't know which side of the debate I support. I respectfully declined making the cake, for fear that it would not be best work and I didn't want the party to be tainted by yucky cake.
But the question still remains in my mind. To freeze or not to freeze? So, today I made two small cakes and decorated them. One was straight buttercream icing with royal icing flowers. The other was buttercream icing topped with buttercream fondant and a gum paste bow. I placed them in two separate cake boxes and wrapped them extremely well in plastic wrap and tin foil. Then, down into the freeze they went. Next week I will pop them out and see what happened. Fingers crossed that the cakes make it!
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