How to Freeze Wedding Cake?

The baker where you got it from should do a one year cake thats what mine did and you just put it in the freezer. we didn't eat ours b/c i didn't think it was safe for me b/c i'm pregnant and my husband thought it was gross.

Hi Jessica,

I do cakes and I give my brides a gift certificate to come back in a year and get a fresh anniversary cake. See if they can do that.

The trick with freezing anything is to wrap it tightly, get all the air out, and get it from room or refrigerator temperature down to frozen as quickly as possible. If it's been in the refrigerator overnight, that's better than from room temp since the greater the change in temperature the item has to make the longer it will take. If possible, use a standalone freezer, not the one in your fridge, and make sure that it's on a shelf by itself. The more air around it, the faster it will freeze. A standalone freezer is usually 10 degrees colder than your fridge. Once it's frozen you can move it around easier.

The best way I have found with any item like that (my grandmother freezes everything) is to pop it in the freezer for a few hours just to harden it up and then take it out and wrap it in one of those vaccume type zip lock bags and pump all the air out and pop it back in the freezer. When its time to eat it, take it out of the bag to thaw. As long as no air got in the bag and you had no long power outages, the cake should be fine. there is nothing wrong with a year old frozen cake as long as it was frozen properly and kept frozen. Even so, I most likely will only take one bite for luck and be done with it. Still seems weird. LOL

Just a suggestion because I'm doing this:

I'm also not sure how to freeze the top layer so I am having the caterer cut our top layer into 12 slices after we cut it so I can wrap each slice individually as tight as I possibly can so no air gets in. Then we are going to share a slice of cake every month on the day we get married (20th of every month) for a whole year.

Did you call the bakery? Maybe they can have someone show you how to wrap it before you freeze it so it stays fresh. If it's done right, I heard it tastes just like it was just baked.

FYI: some bakeries make wedding cakes way ahead of time anyway so your wedding cake is sometimes actually a frozen cake! LOL

I have eaten year old wedding cake and it tasted pretty much the same as when it was first made.

stick it in the freezer to harden the icing, that way when you wrap it the icing still looks good when its unfrozen, for a few hours, but do not put it on card board as that could seep into the cake and alter the taste. freeze it on a glass or plastic plate.

after a few hours take it out and wrap the whole thing tightly in ceran wrap with no air, and then stick it back in for a day.

take it out the next day and it should now be fully frozen by now.

now that it is and is covered tightly in the wrap, cover the wrap in foil tightly and be sure to get all the air out.

the ceran wrap keeps the foil from altering the taste and is a nice extra layer to make sure it is protected.

i promise it will still taste good and be safe to eat in one year.