how to store a wedding cake
or how to keep the memories of special day from freezer burn
A few weeks ago, I married the love of my life (hence the delay in more posts). The room was full enough that the expression of care from everyone present felt genuinely overwhelming at moments. If you have a partner you trust completely and can’t imagine your life without, I’d recommend finding a way to memorialize that in something true to both of you, with as many loved ones as you can afford.
We spent months on a choreographed dance that went off without a hitch, ate Spanish food from Cafe Ba-ba-Reeba, then moved through the room trying to hold as many people as we could for as long as we could. A friend (shoutout Abi) made our cake, and she gave us options for flavor and frosting weeks before. She had alluded to her design and blew us away with a stained glass window pane design that mirrored the gardens we got married in. It was tasteful and tasty, and by the end of the night we had roughly three quarters of it left, having gotten sheet cakes for our party.
How do you store a singular event? Seventy-two hours of celebration that took eighteen months to plan and four years to arrive at. Time was warped throughout the process, where we always had more to do than there were hours in a day, yet our wedding day went by in a flash. We sat in bed until noon the next day, going through photos, trading stories, checking instagram for angles we hadn’t seen. The disposable cameras are still being developed. The comedown is real, yet we were both grateful for our presence throughout the whole day and will relish those memories for the rest of our lives.
The cake came home that afternoon after a few stops to see family. There is something unique about a piece of food that existed on the day you got married that makes you want to protect it carefully. Freezer burn is entirely preventable and entirely your responsibility, but boy what a responsibility that is.
the wrap
Unwrapped, place the cake in the freezer for two to three hours until the frosting is firm to the touch. Wrap tightly in three layers of plastic wrap, pressing each layer close. Follow with three layers of aluminum foil. Clear a dedicated space in your freezer where it won’t shift or get buried. Store for up to one year.
I’ll let you know how it tastes.