Defrosting wedding cake

mintchocchip584

My 1-year anniversary is coming up... we saved the top tier of our cake and it's in the freezer, but I don't know the best way to defrost it. Any tips would be appreciated!

Simply Fated

Take it out of the freezer would be a good first step. I usually put stuff in the fridge overnight, then leave it out during the daytime. I think it depends on the temperature of your fridge and outside.
I don't like leaving things out at room temperature for too long, but that's a concern I have dating back to a course in food cleanliness I had to take a few years ago, lol.

mintchocchip584

Yeah, putting it in the fridge first and then leaving it out to get to room temperature sounds like a good plan. That was what I was intending to do, but I was just wondering if anyone who has done this before has guidelines about how long it takes a cake to defrost (e.g., how long to leave it in the fridge, how long to leave it on the counter).

ricksang

Put it in the fridge for 2 days and let it defrost.

Simply Fated

I would think that density and ingrediants would play a part in it.

On a 5 minute car ride home from the supermarket, my ice cream always melts, but the shrimp ring always remains frozen. The ice cream I don't need that night and obviously I don't want it unfrozen, anyway. But the shrimp ring I do need that night, that one is the pain in the arse to thaw.
I'm sure the ingrediants play a part in that.

As for the density, a container of ice cream can thaw in, like, minutes left out, but an ice cream cake, that is usually denser, can take much longer to thaw.

laladypoet

it's still gonna kinda taste like freezerburn and stale ass. but it's a sweet thing to do. we choked down two tiny pieces and called it good.

ricksang

Our tasted fine. We wrapped it in clear wrap and then wrapped it in foil three times. The trick is to wrap it well.

louisvillebride21

I'm pretty pumped not to eat year old cake. Our bakery gives us a small cake on our anniversary. I don't think Boston Cream would have tasted so great in a year.

mandysmear

We kept ours, it tasted just like it did the first day.  We wrapped it in saran a few times, put it in a tupperware container, then in the deep freeze.  In my experience cake doesn't take long to thaw.  We always buy cupcakes and freeze them.  Takes no time to t haw.  And I like it frozen, so there's that.

Simply Fated

A lot has to do with how it's frozen. I think I posted this in another thread before, but my family was always really big with freezing stuff. As long as it's kept tightly packaged and the ingrediants are freezer-friendly, you should be ok.

PreppySailor

Ha, when I read the title of this post, for a second I thought it was going to be about removing icing from the cake (de-frosting)

LnDUBS

My baker told me the trick is to keep it wrapped up until your going to eat it. Dont unwrap before its finished thawing or else you will get gross stale cake.