How long will a home made fruit cake keep for? Is it best to freezer or store in cupboard and keep feeding it?

[MamaG]

look how nicely I'm smiling FGS

They keep forever if you wrap them in paper and foil and keep in the cupboard.

oh good - so would be ok for up to a year? Planning ahead for as-yet-unborn DS2's christening!

greaseproof, then foil, then into an old Roses or Quality Street tin.

uniced.

feed as needed - i do it once a week.

keeps for a year in a cool place.

i don't soak my fruit before making the cake.

what expat said.

There is no need to freeze them as they keep so long.

i use UCM's recipe that's on the current Xmas cake thread.

works EVERY time and easy peasy.

Ta both

If I don't get around to getting baby christened, I will still eat the cake

Agree with expat's method - our wedding cake was fine after five years and we only fed it a couple of times.

ours was in the loft for 7 years - still iced, which helped - before it was used for DS's christening.

Sorry to sound thick, but what do you mean by feeding it?

I'm salivating at the thought of a reallyh good fruit cake

In my house, about 3 days I would think

My mother makes the best fruit cakes and, because she's hilarious, she has also invented a cookie version which my two year old neice eats like normal children eat chocolate icecream! For our wedding, she's doing three layers - one for the day, one to keep for any christenings (hopeful grandmothers, sweet) and one for us to take on honeymoon. I think DP is more excited about the cake than the honeymoon....

kept my wedding cake layer (iced) in the back of the freezer for seven years

finally had ds and had to chip cake out, it was like Walt Disneys cryogenic frozen head

tasted lovely. poisoned no-one.

Did my first sugarcraft course last week
the chap there said he had just re-iced a cake that was 8 years old it had been stored with original wedding icing then in a cardboard box in a cool location - he said it tasted FABULOUS!