Can You Freeze A Cake Decorated With Fondant
kristanashley Posted 19 Jun 2012 , four:55pm
I just did it! I had to brand a wedding cake for my cousin who lives 14 hours abroad. I was worried about driving that far this time of year with all the heat, so I decided I would only get ahead and freeze the fondant covered cakes and see what happened. Here'south what I did... I baked, filled (raspberry preserves and BC), iced, and covered my cakes (6,eight,10, and 12") in fondant. I put them in boxes and wrapped the whole box well in saran wrap and put them in the stand-up freezer the day earlier I left. We folded the van seat down and put some of that gripping shelf liner stuff down and set the frozen cakes on information technology without unwrapping the saran wrap. We drove and got there on Fri nighttime and put them in the fridge and left the saran wrap on. At this bespeak I had to peek to brand sure they were okay. They were still absurd to the touch and did sweat a picayune, just the fondant still looked perfect. The next forenoon I took them out of the refridgerator and the cakes were a teeny tiny bit sticky, simply they air dried in about 30 minutes. The fondant was all the same perfect. No drooping or sagging or anything. I busy them that morning for the nuptials that evening. The block was super moist and delicious. Success! Skillful to know, right?!?
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mbranko24 Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 4:57pm
What make/kind of fondant did you use?
kristanashley Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 5:06pm
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What brand/kind of fondant did you utilize?
Wilton's with vanilla excerpt added.
Claire138 Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 5:09pm
Practiced to know, this is e'er one of my worries and then I've never been brave enough!
srkmilklady Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 5:15pm
I really want to requite this a try. My daughter's wedding is in Oct and I don't want to be decorated the week earlier baking, so I thought I might try this and do the cakes (bake, torte, fill, crumb coat and fondant) the weekend before and freeze them and so but leave the final minute decorations till the Fri. (wedding is on Sunday) That would permit me to spend time with my daughter through the week. It just sounds so scary, but I know that another CC'er has said she finished a cake, decorations and all and froze the whole thing and it came out great!
So happy information technology worked out for y'all. I wonder if information technology makes a difference based on cake flavors or fillings as to whether it might or might not work?
Elcee Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 6:20pm
Funny frozen block story...I made a proposal block about 9 months ago for a friend'due south son. The cake was a hitting and I was told the new bride-to-be wouldn't let it be cut. I didn't do the wedding block considering they used a venue that but allows cakes from their list of canonical vendors. We went to the wedding this by weekend. As shortly as we arrived, the groom came bounding over to say thanks again for the cake and we "should become see information technology; it'southward next to the hymeneals block". Plainly, they've had it in the freezer all this time simply for this purpose 
. I accept no idea how it was stored in there, and because of the whole preferred vendor thing, they didn't cutting information technology, which I'thousand actually grateful for. Who knows if it was in there uncovered next to a side of beefiness or something 
. Merely it LOOKED amazing! The simply issue was a possible finger paring in i corner of the box.
Mine is the little cake on the left:
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srkmilklady Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 7:24pm
Elcee, the cake is sooo cute! Do you lot know if they ever ate it?? Non that I'thou planning to freeze a cake for nine months, but it looks astonishing after that length of time, so I judge if I wanted to freeze a fondant covered cake for a week or two, information technology "shouldn't" exist an effect?? 
Annabakescakes Posted xix Jun 2012 , seven:56pm
Last twelvemonth I had 3 cake orders for the weekend, and learned it was also my grandparents 60th wedding ceremony, and then I fabricated them on wednesday, boxed them and wrapped them and froze them. My mom went to the bakery Saturday and fix them on them on counter, still wrapped, and let them thaw. The next day she cam early to cut to plastic wrap from them and they looked perfect! One even had a gumpaste bow that was sitting on acme, and it was still poofy!
Prima Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 9:00pm
Would you mind sharing the recipe for raspberry filling you used? I have a recipe that I honey, and would dearest to be able to freeze cake tiers for time management's sake, merely my filling does non freeze well. Something happens to the texture of the filling when information technology thaws. If yours thawed successfully, I'd honey to endeavor this!
Thanks!
Elcee Posted xix Jun 2012 , nine:09pm
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Elcee, the cake is sooo beautiful! Do yous know if they ever ate it?? Non that I'one thousand planning to freeze a cake for ix months, merely it looks astonishing after that length of time, so I guess if I wanted to freeze a fondant covered cake for a week or 2, it "shouldn't" be an issue??
Thanks . I don't think they ate it. They are on their honeymoon now. Had I known they were going to freeze it for that long, I would have packaged it for them in a manner that odors wouldn't have penetrated. 1 caveat, though, is that we're in southern Colorado where in that location's actually low humidity.
I think I'd requite it a shot if I were yous. Yous have fourth dimension to practise a exam cake, right?
VaBelle Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 9:24pm
Last year I made a large Superbowl block with the two helmets on top for a friedn'southward superbowl party. They ended up freezing on of the helmets in a tupperware container and pulled it out a month or so later and said they had no issues with the fondant at all.
sgalvan62 Posted 19 Jun 2012 , 10:23pm
I'm taking my grandson a bday cake 8 hrs abroad subsequently wrapping boxes with wrap would you put in ice chest ? Driving from New Mexico to Tucson.
srkmilklady Posted 20 Jun 2012 , 12:32am
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Elcee, the cake is sooo cute! Do you lot know if they ever ate information technology?? Not that I'm planning to freeze a cake for nine months, but it looks astonishing afterwards that length of time, and then I guess if I wanted to freeze a fondant covered block for a week or two, information technology "shouldn't" be an event??
Thanks . I don't think they ate it. They are on their honeymoon now. Had I known they were going to freeze it for that long, I would have packaged information technology for them in a manner that odors wouldn't have penetrated. One caveat, though, is that nosotros're in southern Colorado where at that place's really low humidity.
I think I'd give it a shot if I were you. You have time to do a test cake, correct?
Aye, I have a couple of family birthdays earlier the wedding, so what better mode to test freezing a cake. 
cakegrandma Posted 20 Jun 2012 , 10:11pm
You tin can apply any fondant on the block and freeze it with no mishaps. Ane of the Wilton trainers worked for a company in Canada that made one of Princess Diana'southward hymeneals cakes and they froze it. I have done it before only, only i time.
Daina-Thou Posted xix Oct 2013 , 12:18pm
AI had my cake covered with renshaw fondant and freeze information technology for next 24-hour interval when I took it out it started sueting a lot and look really glossy in some places color run on the white and so I had to put a fan and try to dry out it .Is there any other way to prevent this melting?( I didn't cover it with motion picture)
maybenot Posted nineteen Oct 2013 , 10:07pm
Box the completed cake. Wrap box in several layers of saran/plastic wrap and foil. Freeze.
24 hrs. earlier serving, place wrapped box in refrigerator.
A few hrs. earlier serving, place wrapped box on counter.
Right earlier brandish/serving, unbox block.
Near no sweating.
Daina-M Posted nineteen Oct 2013 , 10:22pm
APerhapsm I'll try it next time although I'm afraid
maybenot Posted 19 October 2013 , 10:33pm
I've washed it many times............here are the near contempo examples--both frozen for a week and defrosted by the bride [equally described above] the 24-hour interval before the wedding:
Navy blue fondant flowers with handmade argent dragees
Blackness chocolate fondant with dry dusted gilt plaque
Daina-M Posted 19 October 2013 , 10:36pm
AThey wait great! Does it matter the make of fondant? Practise I have to put them in a box sometimes they don't fit in a box when they are large cakes
anavillatoro1 Posted 19 Oct 2013 , 11:17pm
AGood to now!! Thank y'all ;-D! Maybenot did y'all freeze the cake whit flower'south and dragees?
maybenot Posted 20 Oct 2013 , 4:21am
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They look great! Does it thing the brand of fondant? Do I have to put them in a box sometimes they don't fit in a box when they are big cakes
Yes, they must be boxed and wrapped per ALL of the instructions I provided above.
maybenot Posted 20 Oct 2013 , iv:22am
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Adept to at present!! Thank you 
Yes, the cake was completely decorated and the photo was taken subsequently information technology was defrosted.
anavillatoro1 Posted 20 Oct 2013 , 12:18pm
Danilou Posted xxx October 2013 , 7:38am
Would adding a little tylose pulverization to the fondant help with whatever stickiness that may occur later on thawing? If and so how much should I add together to say 500g of fondant? Would information technology exist okay to freeze the tiers seperately and gather them after they take been sitting out for quite a few hours?
maybenot Posted xxx October 2013 , 8:25pm
I don't see where adding Tylose will help at all. Information technology's the process that I described that keeps condensation from forming on the surface.
Yep, yous could stack them after defrosting, Just you'd desire to wait several hours after the cakes take come up to room temp to be certain that they're non fifty-fifty slightly tacky.
BCWishes Posted 28 Dec 2013 , 6:50pm
AOk...demand some advice! Early on in Dec, I made a red velvet/cream cheese frosting wedding cake. I covered it in LMF and decorated the whole thing. So an ice tempest striking our area and the wedding was cancelled. The bride/female parent of the bride have not filled me in on when the wedding volition be rescheduled for. My husband says I should thaw information technology out and sell it at a drastically reduced toll and and then remake the cake for the hymeneals whenever it is. What exercise you think? How long can it stay in the freezer before I have to remake information technology? It is in a deep freezer that has nothing else in it.
-K8memphis Posted 28 Dec 2013 , 8:13pm
idk--i ever told peeps that the wedding ceremony taking identify was not a requirement for the cake to happen--this would be 1 of the reasons why i gear up things up like that--i told them that storage is likewise up to them--
if i was y'all i'd probably re-brand the cake and and then hate myself because there's probably nada wrong with the frozen one--
hey--probably just bring it to temp gradually and if it needs sprucing up just re-cover it? possibly
maybenot Posted 29 Dec 2013 , 8:02pm
If the box is really well wrapped and the freezer operates consistently, the cake will be fine for many months--at least 6.
Now, if the client knows that information technology's been frozen, I'd let her choose what to exercise with the cake. I'd get hold of her on Jan. two and I'd tell her that she has iii choices--one to be made IMMEDIATELY---pay for the cake & accept information technology NOW [to do with equally she pleases]; pay for the cake and, if the wedding is held in the next 3 months, use the block [every bit is, with no option for complaints or refunds]; pay for the cake and allow me to dispose of it every bit I encounter fit.
If the wedding is definitely more than 3 months out from the original engagement, I'd tell her that she has to pay for this block NOW and that a new one volition cost her the same amount in the time to come.
Of course, you could also accept her pay for the cake and take it to her ain freezer and let her decide at her leisure.
nikkigladney Posted 27 Feb 2014 , 8:57pm
I do this ALL the fourth dimension...(bake, torte, make full, and water ice the cake) in advance. Merely make certain to wrap them with suran wrap...Make sure y'all permit them sit in the freezer about 15 b4 you wrap them so they volition exist firm and the butter cream wont movement. This will save so much time...I have sold many cakes that I have frozen at to the lowest degree a calendar week b4 they were fully decorated. However, in one case the cake come to room temp the fondant will become sticky. expert luck. Also, you tin can just test it out with similar a 6inch cake prior to her nuptials for taste and any other concerns.
ellavanilla Posted 27 Feb 2014 , 9:19pm
I'thou glad someone rebooted this thread because I am shipping a cake at the end of April. I was planning to have some foam supports around the cake to proceed it from slipping. Now I'm worried that the condensation as it defrosts will cause problems.
any advice?
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