Maria, need advice on cake layers

[marilynfl]

Our county fair is next week and I'll be making an exhibition cake for display, but not as a contestant entry. I'm personally sponsoring a new contest category (Hand pies) and feel uncomfortable entering any of the other contest categories. I would love to say "I need to recuse myself" but that's only applicable in law. Recuse as in "to challenge (a judge, prosecutor, or juror) as unqualified to perform legal duties because of a potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality."

Alas, it's one of those words I'll never be able to sneak into a conversation.

Anyway, I'm also making 4 dozen hand pies for the 4-H teens to sell after the contest. All of the contest entries are cut up and sold afterward and the funds go to the various 4-H groups. So the pies will be prepped ahead of time, but baked Saturday morning. I'd like to make the cake, the filling and the frosting ahead of time and put it together on Thursday/Friday for delivery on Saturday. It can sit in the refrigerator overnight, but I want to bake the layers this weekend.

So, my question to you is, should I wrap the four layers and put them in the freezer until next Thursday/Friday? Or can they just sit in the refrigerator until then?

I made this cake last year, but the fair was cancelled and I donated my entry to the electric company's linemen breakroom. So I know what I'm getting into this year.

Chocolate Mousse Cake with Raspberries

Towering four-layer chocolate mousse cake, filled with airy chocolate filling and fresh raspberries.

www.kingarthurbaking.com

 

[mariadnoca]

I would wrap and freeze them. I always freeze even if I’m icing same day, because crumbs. Learned that via Gail’s swap and never looked back. I still crumb coat, but it’s still so much easier because there is no give. It’s like icing a foam board.

Last time I left them unwrapped a couple of days in the freezer and they seriously stuck to the rack I had them on and tore. Normally just overnight that doesn’t happen, and this was the new big freezer so maybe it’s different, but now consider it a recent lesson learned.

Beautiful cake!

 

[deb-in-mi]

I would wrap and freeze too.

 

[marilynfl]

Thank you, ladies!