"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[DougDyl]

Vegan coffee cake is surprisingly successful - and tastes very good. There was far too much of the mixture for just a dozen cupcakes, so there's an 8" square chunk of coffee cake plus about 8 cupcakes, waiting to be disposed of. Alistair, on Monday, I guess.

Vegan cakes freeze very well. I put mine already iced into freezer and bring back up to room temperature 1 at a time. I usually put a box of 6 into freezer in the cupcake box.

 

[Annb]

Vegan cakes freeze very well. I put mine already iced into freezer and bring back up to room temperature 1 at a time. I usually put a box of 6 into freezer in the cupcake box.

Thanks for the advice. I have put the cakes in packs of 6 - not iced yet - in the freezer. Unfortunately, I'm short of freezer space, so extra ones are in a big plastic box in the fridge. The 5 packs of 6 are the important ones - the rest are extras made with the mixture - I only need to provide 20 assorted cupcakes for vegans. The non vegan ones - a much bigger task (5 lots of 20) are normal cakes and will keep in the fridge from Wednesday to Friday, when they are needed.

 

[DougDyl]

Thanks for the advice. I have put the cakes in packs of 6 - not iced yet - in the freezer. Unfortunately, I'm short of freezer space, so extra ones are in a big plastic box in the fridge. The 5 packs of 6 are the important ones - the rest are extras made with the mixture - I only need to provide 20 assorted cupcakes for vegans. The non vegan ones - a much bigger task (5 lots of 20) are normal cakes and will keep in the fridge from Wednesday to Friday, when they are needed.

I could be doing with a small fridge just for baking in the summer as I never have room in my main fridge. The hot weather plays havoc when trying to ice cakes. Unfortunately I've not got enough room in my small house for any more fridges. Boo hoo xx

 

[Annb]

I could be doing with a small fridge just for baking in the summer as I never have room in my main fridge. The hot weather plays havoc when trying to ice cakes. Unfortunately I've not got enough room in my small house for any more fridges. Boo hoo xx

My main fridge (in the kitchen) isn't very big and is only used for the immediate needs. At present, though, there is just enough room in the big fridge in the back porch/utility for a couple of big boxes of cakes; maybe three, if I can move stuff around a bit. Hardly an inch left in the big freezer out there though.