…to eat it a year later on your first anniversary? And did it taste like anything besides freezer-burned poo?
The brand new wife and I are skeptical and would rather eat this thing now if we’re just following a really stupid tradition otherwise.
…to eat it a year later on your first anniversary? And did it taste like anything besides freezer-burned poo?
The brand new wife and I are skeptical and would rather eat this thing now if we’re just following a really stupid tradition otherwise.
Nope, we ate the whole thing. Ours was more of a small Thai-Chinese ceremony, and I THINK they had a wedding cake in an attempt to try to be Western, for my benefit. No one would have understood why we would have wanted to freeze it and not eat it.
Well, I’ve never been married, so all I can offer is my parents’ experience. They froze the cake to eat it a year later, but they were young and relatively naive and simply stuck the cardboard box with cake inside the freezer. A year and God only knows how many pounds of frozen vegetables and meats sitting on top of it reduced the cake to something that looked inedible. They don’t know if it was or not because they threw it out. I say eat it now. Start a new tradition!
Yes. It tasted like freezer-burned poo. Don’t do this to yourselves–there are much more romantic ways to celebrate your first anniversary.
On one episode of The Ace of Cakes, they did a cake for a couple’s 1st anniversary that was designed to look like their new house. The idea was that since the bakery had done the wedding cake, they would do an “anniversary cake” instead of the couple freezing the original and eating it later. Seemed to work out much better for all involved.
We did more because the engineer within me wanted to see the results rather than any romantic ideas. I used a ziplock bag and removed as much air as possible with a straw before sealing it. Then double wrapped it in foil, with baking soda between the layers to help prevent odors. I put it in the freezer with some dry ice to help freeze it quicker and used dry ice when we moved.
A year later, we ate it with champaign and it wasn’t bad. I recommend plenty of champaign first, as being drunk first makes you not care so much about the quality.
Nope. I’m not a fan of cake, and my husband’s allergic to wheat and yeast, as well as the dairy and possible preservatives in the frosting. It’s just as well, though–we were thousands of miles apart on our one year anniversary.
We didn’t bother, but at the time I worked at an upscale wedding-cake bakery and our advice for freezing was much the same as TokyoPlayers: wrap in plastic wrap, foil, plastic wrap, and foil with plenty of baking soda. Customers told us the cakes came out tasting pretty reasonable. I still didn’t bother, though.
We froze ours and went off on our honeymoon. When we returned, we had no food in the house and we were hungry so we thawed the cake and ate it before going to the grocery store. Never shop hungry, y’know?
The bakery that did the cake for my son & daughter-in-law provided a nice fresh “anniversary cake” for the first anniversary. I think this is a very nice touch (especially considering there was fresh fruit in the filling).
We were going to force feed it to a couple of people who had had the nerve to say to our faces “I give it a year.” But when we took it out of the freezer, it was really yucky looking. Couldn’t do that to anyone.
BTW, we will celebrate #22 on January 1st.
Yes we did and yes, it was awful. One bite for each of us and we tossed it.
What cake?
We had icecream.
I think I did this once … I’ve been married 3 times. Heh.
The secret was to cut off the frosting. Evidently the frosting makes a pretty fair insulator. The cake part was not bad, just not tasty.
We had the most ethereally delicious wedding cake ever made. I couldn’t wait to eat it again after a year. It was still delicious - we had wrapped it carefully and kept it frozen. (Poor wrapping or temperature variation would have made it yucky, I’m sure.)
Even our cat liked the wedding cake. (She also liked popcorn, though, so she was pretty peculiar by cat standards.)
One of my great culinary triumphs is that I have since found a recipe that produces the exact same result as our wedding cake (I think it is called “sweet water mountain cake”). The cookbook recommends it as a wedding cake so I’m pretty sure the recipe is more or less identical.
Now I can have wedding cake whenever I want.
We didn’t freeze ours, but we did save the top tier in a box in a cupboard. We had intended using it as a christening cake for our first child, but complications made that impractical.
We ate it sometime in our fifth year of marriage. It was a rich fruit cake that had been ‘fed’ with sherry and brandy - the icing and marzipan was like cement (didn’t even think about tasting it) - the outside of the cake itself was a little dry, but most of it was just fine - quite nice for the extended maturing, in fact.
Rich fruit cake dosed with alcohol and sealed to a foil baseboard with thick royal icing just doesn’t go off - even after years of storage at room temperature. That has at times in history been the reason for their existence - as a method of food preservation.
You might check with the people making your cake. They might do as the baker for Hilarity N. Suze’s son did and provide another cake on your anniversary. That is what is happening for my wife and I, so we ate the top of our cake when we got back from the honeymoon, since neither of us really ate any that night.
Yes - it was really yummy. Of course it was rich fruit cake - I can’t imagine any other type of cake that would last that long - I certainly wouldn’t save chocolate cake or any type of sponge, for example. The fondant icing and marzipan were still ok.
I double wrapped it in foil and kept in a freezer bag, similar to what TokyoPlayer did, and it was as good as new.
We ate ours the next morning, in bed, with coffee.
We did. It was delicious! Ours was a carrot cake, and that usually freezes well.
Heh. Who are you people who have leftover cake? My wedding cake (actually cakelettes - we had a gazillion bitesize butter cream cakes for our wedding) were the first thing gone.