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Can I put cake with thin buttercream frosting in the fridge

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I am making my daughters wedding cake, and I will be making the cakes a month prior to the event, splitting them in two and freezing them. Three days before the wedding I intend to de-frost them, fill them, and cover with a thin butter-cream frosting. This will be two days before the wedding; can I at this stage put them in the fridge? I intend to cover them with fondant icing the day before the wedding.

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Great question! The answer is yes! Just wrap them in plastic wrap for extra protection from odors.

Also may I suggest that you fill them after baking and cooling, crumb coat, wrap well in plastic and then freeze them. It's a whole lot easier that way. When you defrost a cake all the way and try to work with it it is soft and difficult to work with.

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Mar 31, 2010
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freezing / refrigeration filled cakes
by: June from Dublin, Ireland

Hi Lorelie, thanks for your helpful reply. Do you mean I can freeze the filled cakes even with a buttercream filling or a cream cheese filling? One of the layers will be lemon sponge, and I am using a lemon buttercream filling in this. I will be using a orange flavoured cream cheese filling for a carrot cake and stem ginger syrup cream cheese filling in a ginger layer. What do you think? I have never done anything like this before, although I have had a few trial runs with the recipes, and they seem to be working out okay. I will be a nervous wreck when it actually comes to finishing them off.

Mar 31, 2010
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Yes Freeze Away!
by: Lorelie

Hi June,

Yes I freeze filled cakes all the time with both butter cream and cream cheese icings. I know it's scary doing a wedding cake for the first time, I have been there. It was terrifying. Its like a performance and you want to make sure it gets rave reviews! But you can do this if you take it slow and in steps.

What is the date? I would love to see a photo of it.

Thanks for visiting my site!

Lorelie

Jun 26, 2010
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Wedding Cake Frosting Questions
by: victoria

Hi great site! I too am doing my daughter's wedding cake and I have some wedding cake frosting questions. I have already baked and frozen all the cakes. I have 8 cakes which I will double up for the 4 layers.

My question is - the cakes are already frozen with no frosting, when should I crumb coat them?

Am I correct in saying that the #1 first coat is a thin coat of butter cream? - do I have to thaw the cake at this point? Let harden in fridge for a bit then

#2 apply another thicker coat of butter cream and refreeze until the Thursday before the wedding, when I will

#3 apply the fondant icing and finish decorating with gum paste flowers, already made, the same day?

Or do I need to wait till the fondant sets up and if so how long? I know this will be 2 whole days before the wedding which is Saturday... I worry I am doing it too soon..or not in the correct steps.

Please help the wedding is in 3 weeks! 17 July thanks for all your responses!

Victoria New Brunswick Canada

Hi Victoria,

Answer: Yes you are correct the first coat is the crumb coat. You do not have to thaw the cakes out to crumb coat them. In fact I almost always crumb coat frozen or very chilled cakes.

After the crumb coat you can go right ahead and finish coat them with a thicker layer of butter cream.

You can then store them in the refrigerator, not refreeze them. You want them to be manageable but not so cold that the fondant sweats when you apply it.

Once the fondant goes on you do not want to refrigerate it so it is best to wait until the last possible time to do it. Thursday may be fine as long as you do not have a filling that can spoil.

Butter cream is the safest filling to use. I am planning on doing this myself in August with a square fondant wedding cake. And I will have to put the Fondant on the cake on Thursday and deliver the cake on Saturday.

The cake must be kept in a cool place. So I use the basement or an air conditioned room. I then cover the cake in plastic to protect it from dust etc.

You can decorate it too on Thursday with your gum paste or fondant flowers.

I hope this helps. And please send me a photo when you are done. You can upload it with the same form you used to write this post. My readers and I would love to see it. You could enter it into my cake decorating contest too.

Good luck!

Sep 21, 2010
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2 cakes by Saturday 9/26/10
by: Sa'Ge

It's Monday night 9/20/10 and I finished & stored 4 rectangler containers of buttercream icing. I will be baking enough cakes to make two 3 tier cakes, so roughly around 6-8 cakes, which I will do tomorrow evening Tue 9/21/10. Please tell if the following steps are correct:

1. bake, cool, cut layers (for filling), crumb icing.

2. Once the cakes are crumb iced, wrap with saran plastic wrap & freeze them.

3. Thursday 9/23/10 I will take out frozen cakes for the 1st cake, fill, layer, & second icing . I will continue with same step for the 2nd cake.

After this step, I don't know what to do because once I fill and ice all the cakes, do I leave them out? I want to decorate on Friday so I'm not stressed out at the last minute.

In the meantime, I will be making fondant flowers and decorations.

The first cake is going to be a 3 tier princess cake for a 1 year old baby. The filling will be buttercream icing.

The second cake is going to be a 3 tier Salsa theme cake. Each layer will be filled with different flavors. Chocoate mousse, strawberry, and lemon.

I'm doing this out of my condo with 1 refrigerator and a small freezer in the garage.

I'm looking forward to your reply. Your the best!

Dec 30, 2010
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Storing Decorated Cake
by: Anonymous

I baked and decorated a cake yesterday (Wednesday) for a wedding on Saturday. The cake is decorated with buttercream icing and has no filling. I kept it in the refrigerator last night, but took it out this morning (Thursday) for fear it would dry out. I cannot cover it. How is the best way to keep it until Saturday? Help!

Dec 30, 2010
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What to do next
by: Lorelie

Anonymous-Your cakes will be fine in the fridge until Saturday. The buttercream will keep them from drying out. If you want to you can cover them with plastic wrap for extra protection. Good luck and please submit a picture of the finished cake. You can enter it in the cake deco competition if you like or add it to the wedding cake stories page or the cake pictures page. The links are in the right column.

Sa'Ga I apologize for not replying sooner. Somehow your post was overlooked, and I am seeing it for the first time tonight. I hope your cakes came out good. You had it all right and to answer your question- after filling and frosting your cakes you can store them in the fridge until you are ready to deliver them covered or not with saran wrap. The icing will seal in the moisture.

You can then cover with fondant. Box up your fondant cakes to seal out the moisture in the fridge and your fondant should be ok. Save the delicate decorations to last minute if possible especially if there are colors in the fondant. the colors will drip in the fridge.

Sep 17, 2011
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my first cake!!!
by: linds

I just got into bed after finishing my first cake yikes the wedding is tomorrow! I think I taste tested too much icing lol nice to see all the comments ,helped out a lot! What's this I hear about a contest?:)

Sep 17, 2011
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Cake Decrating Contest
by: Lorelie

Hi Linds,

Glad the comments helped. Good luck tomorrow with your wedding cake. Take some nice photos of it and you can enter it into the contest or at the wedding cake pictures page.

Please update on your wedding cake. Hope delivery and set up go smoothly :-)

Sep 18, 2011
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RE: my first cake:)
by: linds

It went so well thank you! Bride was super happy, delivery was fine it was 4 tier but just the top one was real cake, I still made my own fondant and decorated it all but is that still fair for the contest or does it all need to be real cake layers?

Sep 18, 2011
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Good question
by: Lorelie

I think that would be ok as long as you gave some kind of how you did it story. There are probably a lot of people who would like to know how to work with a dummy cake. Make sure that the story is at least 300 words ok? longer is even better with lots of details. Thanks Linds. You can enter it into the contest now or wait until I make the new page which will be just wedding cakes. I want to keep the all occasion separate from the wedding cakes from now on.

Nov 24, 2011
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Just Getting Started...
by: Missy Hanks

Hi,
My daughter got engaged 2 weeks ago and her wedding is set for June 22, 2012. We are on a very small budget, so I'm attempting to make a "test wedding cake" to see if I can make one decent enough to be in a wedding. I took a Wilton class about 25 years ago and am hoping it will come back to me. We plan to use buttercream icing as fondant is beautiful, but not very tasty...
I baked two 9' & 6' cakes tonight and plan to wrap in saran wrap and refrigerate tonight and tomorrow after Thanksgiving dinner w/hubbys family come home and make the icing and try my hand. What do you mean by crumb coat? Is that a light icing to catch the loose crumbs? What is the best way to do this?
Need a little help in Alabama.....

Nov 24, 2011
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Crumb Coating
by: Lorelie

Hi Missy,

Congratulations on your daughter's engagement. Yes a crumb coat is a way to seal in the crumbs so that your final coat goes on easier. Once your cakes are filled you put your buttercream on and coat the entire cake. The coating does not have to look great, it is an undercoat, so don't fuss over it. Put it back in the fridge to harden up a little bit. Then your final coat goes on. I sometimes rough up the sides with an icing comb before doing the finishing.

You can also use a warmed up glaze of apricot jelly or other flavored jelly to do the same thing. I prefer the buttercream as it covers the cake more effectively.

Good luck and feel free to ask more questions as you go.

Please add your cake to the wedding cake photos page along with any tips you pick up along the way, or a favorite recipe that you used or any type of story that would be helpful or interesting to my readers.

There is a wedding cake decorating contest on this site too. We would love to see and hear about your cake and the wedding.

Thank you for visiting!

Jan 25, 2012
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first timer
by: mscmn

I'm trying to make a cake for my friend for her birthday Monday 1-30-12 .... when should I start preparing my cake. I'm off work the weekend is that enough time to make a gift box cake. I really want to learn how to make a cake with fondant but I'm so lost about the steps and I don't want to mess up lol. HELP Thanks

Jan 26, 2012
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First time
by: Lorelie

Hi I would bake the cakes if possible during the week, wrap and freeze. Fill and crumb coat wrap and refrigerate or freeze. Get all of your decorating supplies in order and spend the weekend decorating. If you can do it in steps like this it will not be overwhelming. Sounds like a big project for a first time cake, so give yourself lots of time.

If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a break and clean up the work area a little before going back to work on it. Good luck and please update us ok?

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