To think cake doesn't belong in the fridge?

[LimpidPools]

Honestly, this drives me up the wall. If you put cake in the fridge, it goes stale and hard and sometimes takes on that weird fridge flavour.

Cakes don't belong in the fridge unless they have cream or similar on them which has to be refrigerated. Yet the moment my back is turned, some fucker always moves it into the cold and by the time I notice it's ruined!

Yeah my DH is obsessed with putting things like cake and chocolate in the fridge so I feel your pain!

@MarkRuffaloCrumble - I completely agree with you! But it seems we are in the minority....

When we stayed in a hotel in Sri Lanka the hotel had a glass 'cake room' next to the open air buffet. It was brilliant, it was probably only chilled to room temperature in the UK but I loved going in there and picking out a selection of yummy things. If I ever win the lottery I am going to incorporate a cake room in my dream house.

There's a certain filling for coffee and walnut cake which contains raw egg so won't keep very well in a tin. But non cream cakes generally don't need to be kept in the fridge.

I live near a fancy patisserie run by a French pastry chef, and he told me very bluntly that sponge cake kept in the fridge tasted "all of the wrong, non?" Eclairs and vanilla slices etc are different, but they still taste better if you take them out of the fridge and let them reach room temperature before eating.

I put cakes that contain fresh fruit in the fridge if they've been around for a few days (only two of us here so that can happen) - they can go mouldy otherwise, which is tragic!