Can you decorate a wedding cake the day before

Once the frosted cake layers arrive at their final destination youre ready to stack the tiers and add the finishing touches. 2072020 Dont leave shopping for your ingredients to the day of the bake have as much as possible prepped in advance. Homemade fondant has a shelf life of about three days unrefrigerated. Hold off on the final 3-4 coats of royal icing until the day before the wedding celebration. Pinecones pine needles and sprigs of holly are. Mainly I think because I am concerned about how old the cake is before it is actually eaten.

I know others bake earlier and keep the cake on the counter or refrigerator but I dont.

Allow the cake to cool completely according to recipe directions. Think about it conventional flowers are probably one of the most heavily fertilized and heavily sprayed with pesticides than any other commercially grown product. Of course if youre the bride you might not want the stress of assembling the cake on the day. You can do this the day before providing you have the height and width of fridge space to keep the whole cake cool. If we were making this cake in the bakery we might bake it on Tuesday or Wednesday but wed freeze the layers until Friday. Allow the cake to cool completely according to recipe directions. The cakes cant be decorated until stacked as the decoration is a lace trim around the base which then has drop pearls iced over the top edge on the lace and a fondant bead chain trim around the bottom of the lace which will sit on the cake below the beads will then be painted with an edible pearlsilver colour. After an eight hour trip to the wedding it may not even look good. Cake by Sweet Heather Anne via Bridal Musings. You can use fresh lavender on a wedding cake. If you refrigerate or freeze fondant it will crack and be ruined.