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I’ve been asked to make a liverpool shirt cake for Friday ready for the party on Saturday, I’m making a Victoria sponge filled with jam and buttercream and crumbcoated in buttercream, I was thinking of baking and decorating on Friday as it won’t be delivered until at after 4 is this too late, thanks

Hi 75 shell

You can do it all on the same day if you feel you can accomplish everything without causing yourself undue stress.
I prefer letting my cakes settle overnight after filling and crumbcoating before icing and decorating the next day.
It also depends on how big the cake is, which recipe is being used and whether it has complicated decorations, some cakes need to be worked on longer than others. Your victoria sponge would still be moist and fresh if you decided to bake, fill and crumb coat one day and decorate the next, plus you wouldn’t feel so rushed. Just keep the cake in a cool room in a box and allow the butter cream to set up nice and firm before icing. Hope this helps.

Thanks miwl it’s just a simple design it I’ll be baked n crumbcoated by 9 am.

I thought that might be the case, nice when a cake can be done quickly but still have great results! x