Wedding Friday: Preserving the top of your cake

I'm a few days late on this post, so today we have "Wedding Friday".  "Wedding Wednesday" has a much better ring to it, but just go with it for this week. :)

As I mentioned a few posts ago, Mr. Bear and I recently celebrated our 1st anniversary as husband and wife!  In keeping with tradition, we saved the top tier of our wedding cake to eat on our anniversary.

After defrosting, it actually still tasted pretty good!  I had been nervous because most other married couples said theirs tasted horrible.  I wanted to share how our cake was preserved in the hopes that others may have a similar experience (good cake).

First and foremost, you have to start with a delicious cake. Ours was super moist at our wedding, and it had about 1/2" of buttercream frosting on the outside that locked in the flavor.

Second, make sure whoever is baking the cake knows you want to keep the top tier of the cake.  Our bakery left the caterer a small box for the top tier.  This made it easier to take home.  You will also want to make sure that your venue/caterer/whoever is cutting up the cake to serve knows that you want to keep the top tier of the cake so they don't cut it up and serve it.  Additionally if you are saving the cake and it has a filling that needs to be refrigerated, make sure to tell your venue/caterer so they can keep it in the fridge for you until the end of the night (or the following day if you are collecting all of your items in the morning).

After you take your cake top, you will want to take the box and put the entire box into a plastic bag.  We used tall kitchen trash bags for this and tied them off in the middle of the bag to create a tighter seal.

We then wrapped the cake in one more kitchen bag before placing in my parents' ice chest.  We let the cake freeze, untouched for several weeks until we came home from our honeymoon and were able to pick it up.

The cake then was transferred into our freezer and remained there until our first anniversary.

A few days before our anniversary, I took the cake out of the freezer(still in the plastic) and placed in the fridge to defrost.  After 2 days, we then cut into and ate the cake.  It wasn't as moist as the original servings, but it was still pretty tasty!

Here is a look at our cake after we cut into it:

-Danielle