But do you save the sheet in your freezer for a year to reuse on your anniversary?
Yes. No.
No. After our reception we were given the top tier of our cake. We put it in our hotel room, not sure what to do with it. We ended up nibbling on it later that night or the next morning, then tossing it.
We were married in Las Vegas and had no way to freeze it or transport it back to CA. And while it was a decent cake, it wasn’t spectacular. Neither one of us had any desire to keep it anyway.
I still say for our 10th anniversary I’m going to get a super fabulous cake.
When I was married I’d never heard of saving cake, and my sweetie had but wasn’t interested.
I first heard about it later when Dear Abby got a letter from a griper who asked if she could sue because she’d opened the cake box in the closet 10 years later and found there had been wevils in it. Ten years. I couldn’t help thinking it was nuts to keep food in a closet over a day without expecting wevils.
No. Granted, we got married fairly far from home and left two days later on a honeymoon even farther away with no plans to pass back through the town where we got married, so it wasn’t a realistic option. I didn’t feel dismayed about not having the chance, however.
As a Czech-American, I have been to many weddings where the money dance was done. I am sure it horrifies many if not all people of taste and refinement, but I’m telling you I have relatives who would be nonplussed if they couldn’t line up with their $10 bill to dance with the bride or groom. It’s what we do, along with making kolaches and cabbage rolls and feeling wistful when we hear accordians playing polka music. Sorry, Emily Post.
We did it, stored in a chest freezer and wrapped really well (I think that’s better than long-term storage in a regular freezer, the temperature is more constant b/c there’s not so much opening and closing.) The caterers put the top aside for us to do whatever we wanted with it, around here that is typical. Some people eat it on their honeymoon, others freeze it for their anniversary. But that is how there is cake left over - it never gets put out and served with the rest.
Ours was still pretty good. Not bakery fresh of course, but more than just edible. We ate it all.
We froze the little tippy top part. As to taste, I’ll let you know in a couple of months.
We froze it carefully and ate it. I’d say it was 90% of what a fresh cake would be. It was from the holy grail of bakeries around here, I’d much rather have a year old cake of theirs than a fresh cake made by anyone else.
Ditto.
Honestly, it didn’t taste that good to begin with. If I had it to do over again, I’d buy it from Publix (the local grocery store).
When in Rome, do what the Romans do - even if Emily Post would be shocked. Its only good manners.
(I’m a dollar dance alumni myself - cringed doing it knowing what Miss Manners would say. I did avoid the garter thing though).
As to the cake, I baked my own. I’ve baked the same cake since - maybe I even did it for our anniversary, but probably not.
Our baker told us not to save it - that it generally didn’t turn out well. So we took home the top layer, froze it, and went on our honeymoon. When we got back, we would thaw it slightly after dinner and eat some, then put it back. It took us about 3 weeks to eat it all. 3 delicious weeks. If we want to eat cake on our anniversary, we’ll just make one.
What sort of cake are you guys talking about in this thread, anyway?
After my first wedding, we froze the top tier and ate it on our first anniversary. It tasted pretty good, but we got divorced about four months later. (For other reasons, obviously.)
I know it’s a tradition, but I didn’t bother with my second and final wedding. We ate a few bites, and fed the rest to our kids.
I had alternating layers of spice and white cake for my wedding cake…that in and of itself almost caused a scandal. We didn’t eat much at the reception…too nervous and busy making the rounds…and went through the drive-thru at Cap’n Taco on our way to the hotel. My mom kept the top layer (spice!) in her big freezer for us since we were moving the next day. She used a plastic ice cream tub to store it in, using the lid of the tub as the base so that the icing wouldn’t get smooshed, and then you could just lift off the tub and cut on the lid, like with a regular cake-taker. My dad had to come out to Denver a month before our anniversary, so he brought the frozen cake with him on the plane. But being a logical man, he assumed the lid was the top, not the base, and at some point flipped the thing over…so the carefully preserved icing flowers got all mushed. But it still tasted great. And since I was used to frozen cake, I didn’t notice any problems with it. It was nice to finally get a taste of it!
I did this. We had a truly yummy wedding cake. My mother was in charge of preparing the top tier for our first wedding anniversary, and prepare it she did. That thing was wrapped in so many layers of Saran Wrap that it was completely unrecognizable. When we unwrapped it on our anniversary (which took forever) and let it thaw, it tasted wonderful. Perhaps not quite as wonderful as the very day, but really very good. The icing did kind of slide off the sides, but I’ve never been as worried about how food looks as about how it tastes.
We stuck it in the freezer after the wedding, then on our first anniversary we looked at it and decided that it was our special day and we didn’t think eating year-old food sounded like fun. So we tossed it out and got drunk instead.
I don’t know what secret ingredient(s) Torrance Bakery uses, or what mysterious wrapping technique New York Food Company utilizes, but our cake’s top layer was damn near as good as the day it was baked when we defrosted it for our first anniversary.
Ours was great–it was dark chocolate cake with fresh raspberry inner icing and fondant outer icing, stuffed in a foam takeout box and then wrapped in a plastic bag with a twist-tie.
That stuff was amazing. I was eating a little slice every day for a month.
My wife may well argue this was further proof I’m insane.
Well, our first anniversary isn’t for a whole 'nother 11 days but we didn’t save any cake to eat then anyway. Are you kidding? That cake never stood a chance! 
First marriage: We froze the tippy-top tier of the cake. I ate the frozen cake, myself, a month or so later, in a fit of foul temper, pique, and general sweets-craving. An appropriate foreshadowing of the end of the relationship, which dissolved 18 months later.
Second marriage: What cake? We had lox and bagels, which don’t freeze (who has leftover lox hanging around, anyway?).