Hi all,
I'm in no way a professional or really a hobby Baker, but I do enjoy baking and have made cupcakes with piped icing and a larger round cake with piped roses for my mums birthday. The lady who has previously made cakes for my sons occasions has let us down so I decided to make it myself.
I baked the actual cakes on Monday and Tuesday, cut them in half, wrapped them in 2 layers of cling film and a layer of foil and have put them in the freezer. I plan to get them decorated (fondant icing) Saturday. They are just vanilla Madeira cakes.
How is best to defrost them? Do I let them defrost fully before adding any sort of crumb coat and icing? Do I unwrap them? Put them in the fridge overnight? Leave them on the counter? Let them fully defrost? I am completely clueless as I have never frozen a cake before. I am getting a lot of mixed answers online through google search.
Any tips or advice would be welcome, I am now worried as I was hoping to save time by baking them in advance.