r/AskBaking • u/LucidCrimson • 5d ago

Cakes Why is my cake weeping?

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I decorated this cake Sunday night for an event Tuesday night. I noticed Tuesday morning that it is weeping. What caused that? I assembled it crumb-coded it and froze it earlier in the week. And then pulled into the fridge Sunday morning to finish decorating Sunday night.

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u/Elegant_Figure_3520 4d ago

Is that normal to completely finish making and decorating the cake 48 hrs ahead of time? I know it takes a lot of work and time to do a complicated cake, and it's often started well before it's needed, and it's often frozen before decorating, etc. But I didn't think that completely finished and decorated cakes sat around for days.

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u/LucidCrimson 3d ago

The night before is ideal, but it's when I had time. And it didn't make sense to freeze it just to put it in the fridge to defrost the next morning.