Need Advice on cake favours

[Chrystle]

Hi all,

Im having a christening for my son on Sunday and Im giving my guest some cake to say thank you for attending.

Here is were I need advice. If I were to cut the cake and put them in the favour boxes the night before, do you think the cake will get hard ? I don't want to give my guest stale cake. I have a lot f people coming on the Sunday and I don't want to waste valuable time cutting cake and putting them in boxes. got around 70 guests.

any advice would be great.

Thank you

Chrystle

[ryedalema]

Hi there - if you expose any area of cake to the air it will get hard quite quickly..so I'd suggest your options could be:

- get individually iced cakes (much the best option)

- use iced cup cakes (if they are fully covered in icing on top they should be fine (as the rest is airtight to the casing)

- use sellophane to cover both sides of the sliced cake (if you go near a patisserie valerie, that's what they do).

Hope that helps x

[Convex]

Or task a friend to do it for you?

[Saffron]

For our wedding we had petit fours from Hirst & Sons bakery, which were very reasonably priced -- and really yummy too! For the time it would have taken to make and box cake, petit fours were a bargain. xx

[Goodliz]

These could be a possibility but I have a feeling I am too late seeing your post:

http://munchpops.blogspot.co.uk/

This is my friend's business. They look great for lots of different types of occasions.

[Chrystle]

thankyou for all your help,

in the end iced the cakes and cut and boxes them around 12 hour before giving them to the guest. I also covered them with cling film which I think helped a lot.

the cake came out perfect!!

thanyou for all your advice :)

chrystle