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Who here has mad baking skills?

Mooseica
26-02-2008, 21:22
So it's Mother's Day this weekend, and I'm not gonna be around. So I'm thinking leave something in the house for my mum before I go away, for her to get on Sunday. I'm thinking a cake, amongst other things. So far, so good, you might think. However, I'm off early Thursday, which means baking it no later than Wednesday night. Here's the crunch:

How do you keep a cake fresh for four days or so? Anyone have any ideas?

Any help would be greatly appreciated - by my mum as well as me :)
Fartsniffage
26-02-2008, 21:25
Depends what kind of cake. A good fruit cake will last pretty much forever in a plastic box (I'm still eating the christmas cake I made for Xmas '06).

Don't know so much about sponge.
Lunatic Goofballs
26-02-2008, 21:26
I've been on a muffin kick the last few months. Trying out new recipes and fiddling with existing recipes.
Sumamba Buwhan
26-02-2008, 21:29
I've been doing a lot of mini-muffins myself

my favorite recipe as of late is our choco-banana swirl muffins

you can use one of those vacuum sealers to keep it fresh - just make sure not to let it suck the air out until your cake is flattened
Ashmoria
26-02-2008, 21:31
thats what the frosting is for. it seals the cake in.

you can also get a rubbermaid cake saver at walmart for less than $10.
Mooseica
26-02-2008, 21:33
It'll be a spone - victoria sponge as it happens. My resources as far as storage is concerned are limited to a selection of tupperwares. Unfortunately I don't have any money with which to buy vacuumy thingies.
I V Stalin
26-02-2008, 21:34
I have a fruit cake in the oven as we (I) speak (type). The recipe specifically says that it should be left for a couple of days after baking before even entertaining the possibility of perhaps considering starting to think about maybe eating it some time in the next week. Ok, that's a lie. It says before eating it. But as LG has said, fiddling with recipes is good.

So yeah, fruit cake is always a good one for keeping for a while. In fact, I might as well just have done this:

A good fruit cake will last pretty much forever in a plastic box
QFT
Fartsniffage
26-02-2008, 21:39
QFT

I find the secret to a good christmas cake is a full bottle of dark rum. Half to be poured over the fruit and allowed to stand for a week or two, a quarter in the mix and a quarter over the top as soon as the cake is out of the oven. I do this in October to give the cake plenty of time to rest before it's eaten.
Ashmoria
26-02-2008, 21:41
It'll be a spone - victoria sponge as it happens. My resources as far as storage is concerned are limited to a selection of tupperwares. Unfortunately I don't have any money with which to buy vacuumy thingies.

maybe you should buy her a nice pair of driving gloves.
Mooseica
26-02-2008, 21:47
maybe you should buy her a nice pair of driving gloves.

Hehe, if I had the money to buy things, I probably wouldn't be in this conundrum.
Ashmoria
26-02-2008, 21:51
Hehe, if I had the money to buy things, I probably wouldn't be in this conundrum.

what IS victoria sponge cake? dont y'all use frosting in the UK?
Ashmoria
26-02-2008, 21:57
what IS victoria sponge cake? dont y'all use frosting in the UK?

oh i looked it up *shudder*

i assume you are omitting the whipped cream that i saw in one recipe...

you can keep the cake fresh for that many days with plastic wrap. put a dozen or so tooth picks in the top of the cake to keep the plastic wrap from touching the top of the cake and just wrap it over the cake securing it by gravity under the plate that the cake is on.
Mooseica
26-02-2008, 21:59
oh i looked it up *shudder*

i assume you are omitting the whipped cream that i saw in one recipe...

you can keep the cake fresh for that many days with plastic wrap. put a dozen or so tooth picks in the top of the cake to keep the plastic wrap from touching the top of the cake and just wrap it over the cake securing it by gravity under the plate that the cake is on.

Ah awesome :) Thanks Ashmoria.

And as for the cake, I wasn't planning on whipped cream - just sponge sandwich with jam and butter icing in the middle and lots of icing sugar on top. Nothing fancy, but insanely delicious if you get it right :)