Saving that top tier/a slice/or cupcake for your 1 year wedding anniversary..?

The bakery where we are getting our wedding cake is giving us a free anniversary cake she said don't try freezing it doesn't taste good lol

@Tiffany - I like the idea of the wine/love box much better than saving the cake. We're much more "wine" people, than we are "cake" people anyway.

My first marriage I saved the top layer and it wasn't very good.

This time around I won't be. We don't have the space for it. Plus, our baker is doing a duplicate for our anniversary. Every tasting we went to highly advised against not saving the top layer.

I wouldn't do it...generally, food in the freezer for that long...tastes like freezer. My cousin recently ate her year-long freezer cake and it tasted terrible.

I've always known that, if I wanted to re-taste my wedding, I would just re-order a fresh version of my wedding cake. Luckily, my bakery includes in the price a fresh anniversary cake a year later.

And yes, just like Jaime, I would refuse to give up that freezer space for something that wouldn't taste very good.

My parents did it. Tasted gross. Such a waste of food, money, and freezer space. I'm eating my cake the day(s) after! Mmmm

Oh yes, we are saving it. My bakery is known for their cakes still tasting awesome a year later as long as you follow their directions on how to save it. They give you the box and everything to keep it. It defeats the superstition, to me, if you don't eat the actual cake.

I don't think I'm going to do it. I'm not super sentimental.

Our baker recommended cutting it into 12 slices and share one each month for the first year. I like that idea bc I know we don't need to eat a whole cake at once anyways. She also said to wrap it first in wax paper then in several layers of foil. I don't know if that works, but worth a try!

We had an ice cream cake from Marble Slab. On our one year anniversary this year we just ordered a small cake from them in the same flavour. Put our cake topper on it. My parents were around for it, so we all got to enjoy it.

We're not saving ours. Our baker provides a free anniversary cake..so FH and I decided that, every year, we'll get a duplicate of our top tier made and add one flower for each year we've been together. I'd rather have fresh cake instead!

We had so much wedding cake and cupcakes left over that we have enough to save some for a year, AND supply the desserts for thanksgiving, Christmas, and probably Easter.....

We are having cupcakes and a 6in topper cake. We are going to cut a cupcake to feed each other at the reception but any leftover cupcakes and the topper cake I'm sure will be eaten by both of us and the 3 kids shortly after the wedding lol.

We won't be freezing ours, the vendor we are most likely going with includes a free replica 6 inch cake on your anniversary.

Saving the top tier became a custom back in the days when wedding cakes were made of dark brandy-soaked fruit cake and covered with an impermeable layer of almond paste and royal icing. You then kept it packed in an airtight tin box with a layer of sugar packed in all around it. It won't mold because of all the brandy and sugar; the fruit flavours go on permeating the cake all year, and at the end it's just as edible as dark brandy-soaked fruitcake ever is.

I happen to love fruit-cake, and most of the girls in our family still have kept to tradition in their choice of cakes. I doubt the next generation will -- fruit cake is not universally beloved. But really, it is the only type of cake for which the keep-it-a-year strategy works. Modern moist, tender chocolate or red velvet cakes are going to waste if you try to save them -- far better to make do with the modern alternative of a freshly-baked replica.

I plan to save mine based upon tradition but FH wants us to get a new cake anyway.

I love cake, FH loves cake. There is no way we can have it that ling without eating it.

Our pumpkin pie didn't even make it til Thanksgiving this year and we only got it two days before lol

DH and I didn't want to eat a year old cake. Plus it was gonna take up space in our fridge that we might need so we decided to just get a fresh cake from the bakery that made our wedding cake on our anniversary. I think we'll enjoy it more. And I kinda want a chocolate cake(even though I hate chocolate) only because it was the only kind I didn't get to try the day of my wedding.

My best friend and her husband froze theirs and ate it a year later. She said it was delicious. When she told me that, I told her I was glad, because I had dropped the top tier right on it's head carrying it to the car after the wedding. She never even knew.

She was only a little mad LOL.

We both only got one bite of our cake at our wedding night, so we pulled it out of the freezer on our one month anniversary. It was already pretty not delicious

We had bakers telling us that they know the tradition is to save the top tier for your 1st anniversary but said it was gross hahahaa! Some bakers offered a free small cake for the first anniversary. We aren't going to keep our first tier-- felt like it would be a waste of money when someone can actually enjoy it instead at the wedding. So we're just gonna get a new cake on our 1st anniversary-- prob one of the same flavors we had in our cake (we might have three diff flavors).