Butter's Fine Food & Wine Blog

Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on May 3, 2011

There are lots of well known, great, successful cake companies out there.   Most seem to have a quality product.

There are a couple of things to keep in mind when you are thinking about great cake.

#1- Great cakes take time to make-  Plan ahead.  Great cakes made from scratch aren’t going to be hanging out on a self waiting for someone to adopt them.  Typically, if a cake is the kind of cake that you can walk in an buy, it’s not as fresh as it could be. Sure, it’s convenient, but the quality will undoubtedly be compromised.    Fresh cake means that it will be as good as good as the skills of the baker that makes it, but it also means planning ahead to make sure the bakery has time to prepare the cake. This will ensure that you have a freshly made cake when you pick it up.

#2- Most cake companies that are producing a large number of cakes will bake off the cakes ahead of time (not the frosting) and freeze them.  Although this may help the bakery to produce the cake more easily and rapidly,  this method can dry out a cake and give it some off flavors.  Seek out a bakery or cakery that doesn’t freeze the cake ahead off time, or if they do, make sure that they use some kind vaccuum packaging with a high quality material that will lock in moisture .

Stick with these 2 very basic rules of thumb and you’ll always get a cake that is as good as the baker can make.

Categories: Cakes and Cupcakes
Tags: concord nh cakes, Cupcakes and Cakes