How to properly store a cake with different fillings and layers

If it happens that you need to keep the cake in a suitable condition for some time after baking or purchasing, then you must follow the recommendations of experienced confectioners and not miss a single important detail.

What storage conditions for cakes must be followed?

There are several important points that relate to the rules for storing almost any type of cake.

1. Permissible temperature standards should range from +2 to +6 °C.
2. The best place to store the cake is in a refrigerator. As a last resort, if it is not possible to put the sweet in the refrigerator, then you can take it to the balcony. But at the same time, you need to make sure that severe frost is not expected at night. It is absolutely not correct to leave the cake even for some time at room temperature.
3. The maximum storage period for a cake is 5 days. Afterwards, the treat is not suitable for consumption and is even dangerous to health.The only exceptions can be those cakes in the manufacture of which preservatives were used.
4. Before sending the treat for storage, it must be packaged in a special container, a cardboard box, wrapped in cling film or covered with a lid, which is used when heating food in the microwave. All this is necessary to ensure that the cake does not absorb foreign aromas.

Fresh cake should not be placed in the refrigerator immediately after cooking. You need to wait for the cakes to cool completely and the cream to be absorbed a little. If mastic was used as decoration, it must dry out a little, otherwise condensation may form and the surface will burst.

How long can a cake be stored depending on the cream and layers?

Cakes that are used as cream spoil very quickly. natural whipped cream. They are usable for only a quarter of a day. A cake whose cream consists of: butter cream made from herbal ingredients.

Curd creams remain in a suitable condition for 1 day, and yoghurt - one and a half days.

Cake with sour cream (when homemade full-fat sour cream is used) cream and enough sugar can be stored for 5 days. If the product with butter or custard cream, it is safe to eat it for three days. Also, cakes with honey cakes, and with biscuit a little longer - 5 days.

The so-called “dry cakes” can remain in a suitable condition for a long time (10 days). That is, when the basis is meringue with peanuts sandwiched jam or jam.

By following all the rules for storing cakes, you will be able to delight yourself and your loved ones with the true taste of a sweet product for one time or another.

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