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Post#1 @
02-07-04
, 10:56 AM
Hi Everyone, Did anyone freeze a layer of their wedding cake? We had a 3 tier cake and decided to have fruit cake as the top layer in case guests couldn't finish it so we could freeze it! Is there a tradition to when exactly you should eat your frozen wedding cake? it's been a 1.5 yrs now and taken up loads of space in the freezer. I have a feeling we'll never eat it! this might sound stupid but how long can you freeze a fruit cake for? Thanks |
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Post#2 @
02-07-04
, 12:06 PM
The tradition I've heard is to eat the top layer of your wedding cake on your first anniversary. We ate ours a little later. I don't know about how well a fruit cake keeps, though. We had a traditional cake and all the sugar in the frosting turned to something syrup-like that congealed in the bottom of the container. We're not quite dead yet, so I'm guessing it wasn't all that dangerous. 
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Post#3 @
02-07-04
, 01:37 PM
Ive heard fruit cake can last years(7-10) especially the ones soaked in rum. I think it was on a show on the food network around x-mas time. |
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Post#4 @
02-07-04
, 02:00 PM
How are you supposed to freeze the cake anyways??? Shaun and I want to save the top layer of our cake, but I've got no clue on how to do it.... Jess 
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Post#5 @
02-07-04
, 04:55 PM
We got a plastic container (think Tupperware) and used that. It worked rather well, kept it protected and kept it from being squished. We did have a hard time finding a container that would work. |
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Post#6 @
02-07-04
, 08:34 PM
DH and I got married in NY but lived in MS. There was no way we could take it on our honeymoon for a week, then back to MS. It is still in my mom's freezer 2 1/2 years later. There is no way I would eat it now, but did anyone see that episode of Seinfeld when Elaine ate that royal cake that was really old? Well, maybe I'll hang on to ours in case one of us ever become famous. 
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Post#7 @
02-18-04
, 11:55 AM
We didn't freeze our wedding cake. We ate the top layer during the week following our reception. I've heard horror stories of freezing cakes, and how they turn out after they are defrosted. I don't like to cook MEAT that's been frozen for longer than 6 months-- why would I want a baked good that had been frozen twice as long? BUT-- what I DID do was place an order a week ago for an exact replica of the top layer-- we will eat this on our 1st anniversary (exactly one month from today-- March 18th). A bit of a funny story-- but let me give background first. Our marriage ceremony was held in Red Rock Canyon, NV, with 9 family/ friends on March 18th, so we didn't have a huge dance/ dinner reception-- just a dinner following the wedding with cheesecake with raspberry filling for dessert. When we got home, we planned a picnic reception for our extended family/ friends (May 31st), and we ordered a wedding cake for that (this is the cake of which I'm getting the replica). Anyway-- on to the story. When it got time to cut the cake at the reception, I had the caterer slice it all up, and I helped pass it out to folks while DH socialized (since it was an informal reception, we didn't have "cake-cutting" photos). We had a sheet cake with raspberry filling, and a three-tier wedding cake that was all marble cake (no raspberry filling). DH had INSISTED on having raspberry filling, both because he loves raspberry, and also to match our raspberry swirled cheesecake (which was, naturally, our "official" wedding "cake"). So, I didn't see him while we were passing out cake-- I just assumed he picked up his own slice (much like I did) and ate it.  After an hour or so, when guests were getting ready to leave, we still had 3/4 of the tiered cake left, and 1/4 of the sheet cake left. Not wanting to be left with a ton of cake, I started cutting up and packaging wedges for people to take home. After everyone left, DH came over to get his piece of cake.  He never got a bite! So, that raspberry filling was never tasted by him. He keeps asking me how that cake tasted whenever we reminisce about our wedding--just to bug me. I always tell him  . Anyway, since he'll *finally* be getting cake with raspberry filling on our anniversary, I'm hoping it shuts him up. Of course, then he'll just change the story into, "I had to wait until my FIRST ANNIVERSARY to taste my wedding cake!"-- just to bug me, of course.  --Heather |
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Post#8 @
02-18-04
, 03:10 PM
BUT we did just that. Freeze the top layer and "tried" to eat it on our first anniversary. YUCK!!!!!!!!!! It was just AWFUL!! If anyone goes that route I would ask the baker how to freeze it and they will let you know. I *think* you put foil around it and stick it in a bigger container??
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We ate ours when we got back from the honeymoon as well. One year later I ordered a copy of it and we had that. |
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