After our wedding, we had a ton of cake leftover. Kev and I ate cake for weeks. I really just wanted to throw the top layer away, because OH MY GOD, too much cake. But everyone I told of my plan was all “ohhh noooo, you CAN’T do that! You must freeze the top layer! And eat it on your first anniversary!”
But my freezer is small, that cake will take up valuable real estate!
They would not be swayed. And so my will collapsed under peer pressure (please do not offer me drugs, my will is apparently very weak) and I froze the damn thing. I wrapped it in several layers of plastic wrap and placed it in a special (and EXPENSIVE) plastic container that had a little push bubble on the lid that you pump to remove the air inside. I stuck it on the top shelf of my freezer, where, for the past year, it has laughed at my efforts to find room for family sized packages of chicken breasts and 10lbs of italian sausage from costco.
Last week, I had my revenge! I needed room for my huge batch of chicken stock, which lined up PERFECTLY with the fact that it was our anniversary. out came the cake and in went the stock. I unwrapped the cake and covered it lightly with press n seal to thaw.
At 12:30am Sunday morning (errr, Saturday night? Whatever) I sliced a small piece of cake and took it into the bedroom where Kev was watching TV (some guy movie, mostly likely) and fed him a piece. He pronounced it tasty, almost as good as it was on our wedding day.
Damn if he wasn’t right. So whether it was the talents of Mark, our cake baker, or the expensive air pumping container, or my saran wrap skilz, the cake was pretty well preserved. Though even after a year…I’m still sick of it.
Kev likes it, though.
We so ate our cake the night of and the week we returned from our honeymoon, due to both factors you mentioned: a) freezer space is valuable in our house too and b) the omnious question “will it turner nasty after a year?” I am glad yours was super yummy though!
We had a ton of cake left over too! I took several pieces each to my sister, my mom and Dad’s wife. Chris and I still ate ourselves silly on the stuff for over a week. We did however freeze the top layer per the bakers instructions. While we are still feeling a little sick of cake at the moment, it was so good, that I am not sure the top layer will last the whole year
Ewww, 1 year old cake??
It must be due to your fabulous science chick capabilites because our cake top was disgusting one year later when we tried it–right into the trash can it went!!!!!! See ya Thursday night…
What movie was Kevin watching?
I probably liked it too.
Oh yeah–NOW your host quits feeding me the “No ESC cake post for YOU!” screen, right after I emails it. Shitheads.
But I’m so glad you got to eat good cake
At the rate I’m going what to do with my wedding cake is likely a non-issue, so I’m tempted to get one for a big to-do when one comes around, just so I get it MY way once.
Much to my dismay, my grandfather and his sister (both in their 80′s) wrapped my cake in plastic wrap and froze it. Perhaps they had been into the scotch. That or they let the min pins help, it was kinda a mess.
I discovered it after the honeymoon in the deep freeze. One year later, the cake was almost unrecognizable. Glad yours was good ESC!
So just how much *does* a cake freezing container cost?
It was around $14. Which I felt was a little excessive for a plastic container. And really, I didn’t need one that pumped out the air. It was just the only one that was the right size for the cake.