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asked June 5th 2015

Timings for producing a wedding cake

I would appreciate a bit of advice regarding timings for making a wedding cake. Generally how long will sponge based cakes keep?
The wedding takes place on a Saturday but I have to deliver the cake to the venue on the Friday morning.
I’m trying to work backwards and wonder when is the earliest I can make the cakes on the week of the wedding but ensuring they remain fresh? I am making a toffee sponge, a chocolate cake and a vanilla cake as well as a light fruit cake . The fruit cake will be marzipaned then covered with fondant. The others will be covered with ganache then fondant.
As I work on a Wednesday and Thursday I will only have the evenings available on those two days!!
I want to give the fondant a chance to firm up for transporting and assembling.
Thanks

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I would appreciate a bit of advice regarding timings for making a wedding cake. Generally how long will sponge based cakes keep?
The wedding takes place on a Saturday but I have to deliver the cake to the venue on the Friday morning.
I’m trying to work backwards and wonder when is the earliest I can make the cakes on the week of the wedding but ensuring they remain fresh? I am making a toffee sponge, a chocolate cake and a vanilla cake as well as a light fruit cake . The fruit cake will be marzipaned then covered with fondant. The others will be covered with ganache then fondant.
As I work on a Wednesday and Thursday I will only have the evenings available on those two days!!
I want to give the fondant a chance to firm up for transporting and assembling.
Thanks

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Hi Annika58

There’s an answer here which may help:

Wedding cake timeline


However the are many more answers which at the moment I can’t find due to the site changes. There’s more ……….
Paul and David made a recent Q & A blog on this particular question. If you go on Paul Bradford youtube channel you’ll see the video and the answer your question by the experts.
In the link below, scroll down to question 3, to see the answer which Paul and David answered in the youtube video:
cakhttp://www.cakeflix.com/qa-vegan-recipes-law-requirements-and-wedding-es/
Hope this will help you with planning your timeline. If need more information or help please post again.

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If you click on the seach symbol type in the box ‘timing’ to see many related answers including which type of cakes have best keeping qualities.

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