Cakes that will last for a week?

[CharlotteBronteSaurus]

I've offered to bake for a picnic in two weeks' time, but am working the few days before. I was hoping to bake something this Friday to eat the following Friday. Has anyone got any tried and trusted recipes? Obviously a rich wedding-type cake would be ok, but I was thinking of something a little lighter - would Dundee cake keep?

Make it, cool it, wrap it tight in cling and freeze. Defrost on the day you want to eat it.

Loads of cakes keep like this. Lemon drizzle, Victoria sponge etc!

a sticky ginger cake gets better with age...

great, thanks. I'm not a fan of ginger, so might try to freeze a lemon curd layer cake.

I find chocolate brownies mature with age. Also I have still been happily eating Nigella's Quadruple Chocolate Loaf cake from Feast a week later too, but the wrap-freeze-defrost method is probably more sensible.

I do occasionally make cakes that don't include chocolate.

ooh, brownies...
they would definitely be popular

The best brownie recipe ever is Linda McCartneys given to Green and Blacks.

www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2004/apr/18/foodanddrink.features18

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