Advice for a special cake

[debih]

There is a good choice of number cake tins on ebay Ally.

I am going to hijack your thread now - about freezing cakes.

I am going to be making a rainbow cake for L for her birthday next Saturday and was intending on making it on Friday. However, as it involves 6 different coloured sponge cakes I did wonder about making it ahead and freezing it to save time.

But last week I defosted some fairy cakes that L had made and we had shoved in the freezer (I froze them by putting them in a freezer bag and just bunging them in the freezer and then I defrosted them by just taking them out of the freezer, leaving them in the bag and putting them on the side. When I came to ice them they seemed quite "claggy" and I wasn't sure about them.

For the rainbow cake I will be using buttercream to sandwich the 6 layers together and then covering the whole lot in buttercream to hide the inside. I had originally thought about freezing them, defrosting them and icing them (ice them when thawed or still slightly frozen????) but now I am not so sure.

Have you ever tried freezing sponge cake Di or Kaz and if so - how did you wrap it, how did you defrost it and what was it like?

Edited to add - I have just googled it and some people are saying that the cake tastes better after being frozen. The Goddess Delia says to put it in a plastic bag and defrost it in the plastic bag too. I might have a go at making the cakes earlier in the week - saves time on the Friday as at the moment the plan was to bake the cakes as soon as she goes to school, make up the butter icing and then take everything down to the hotel where the street party is (its street party season again) so that I could ice it there and put it in their fridge overnight.

[Kaz]

I have frozen big chunks of leftover sponge party cakes before, and they've been fine Wrapped tightly in freezer bags and defrosted 'naturally' just left on the side in the bag

[debih]

I have frozen big chunks of leftover sponge party cakes before, and they've been fine Wrapped tightly in freezer bags and defrosted 'naturally' just left on the side in the bag

Did you unwrap them to defrost Kaz, or leave them wrapped up.

[Kaz]

Wrapped so they didn't dry out........

[Diflower]

Debih I remember Lorraine Pascale put on one layer of buttercream then put the cake in the fridge, then added another layer, it made it much smoother; the first layer, as with the fondant topcoat, stops the crumbs

Btw I don't think I've ever frozen cake, until the guitar I hadn't made any 'special' cakes for years and years, only little ones and Christmas cakes, but everything I read said it was a good idea.

[meriad]

Ally, a bit late in posting this and not exactly sure how many different photo's you could use, but what about getting a photo of Conor and Jacob when they were babies and having them printed onto rice paper and putting that on the cake?

http://www.eatmyface.co.uk/photo_toppers_5.htm

[saundra]

a few years ago i brought some cake decorations from e bay
just sent a e mail picture and it was put on rice paper stuff
they were brilliant i put them on top of fairy cakes with a blob of iceing
bit late posting this

[Ally]

Ally, a bit late in posting this and not exactly sure how many different photo's you could use, but what about getting a photo of Conor and Jacob when they were babies and having them printed onto rice paper and putting that on the cake?

http://www.eatmyface.co.uk/photo_toppers_5.htm

Oh I couldn‘t eat my babies Ria...

It‘s settled in my head exactly what I want..but thank you.

What I have secretly started doing is building up a collage of photos from birth to now and will frame it.

[JoM]

Oh I couldn‘t eat my babies Ria...

I've done those photo print cakes that you can get from Asda before now, for the boys with their pictures on, but I've always had to carefully remove the print off the top before slicing. No way could I cut into them!

[Kaz]

I've ordered Becky a 'photo' cake for her 18th - I reckon I'll feel able to slice it, she's driving me nuts this holiday mooching round the house