[Sca-cooks] [OOP] Durable Cakes

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

There are more knowledgeable people here than I, but in the spirit of 
drowning out the socio-political grandstanding ;) I'll do what I can here...

My little bit of experience tells me that pound cakes, UNCUT, keep 
better than sponge cakes.  I think uncut angel food cakes keep well, 
too, but I'm not positive.  If you'd have to trim the top before 
stacking or icing, don't trim until you're ready to fill/frost it.  Keep 
it tightly wrapped at room temperature, not in the refrigerator. 

Wedding cake bakers freeze their cakes repeatedly in the process of 
frosting them to help them acheive perfectly smooth finishes and to 
stabilize some of the fancy icing flourishes while they work on other 
details, so it seems to me that freezing your cake base should work fine.

-Magdalena

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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