Freezing cake and other foods?

[WDWAurora]

I so think I'm eating the rest of our wedding cake soon. DH doesn't like cake, it's tiny, and I don't want to wait till it gets gross!

 

[ceecee]

We froze the top (smallest) cake of our Wedding Cake and had it on our first anniversary. It was great. My sisters and everyone in the family has done it, we were told it was good luck. My cousin had several smaller cakes made to match so they would have an extra to freeze.
When I babysat, this lady always had frozen slices of cake in the freezer and told me to have some. It was quite good frozen!

 

[mrsboz]

Question: when you make lasagna, do you cook it all the way in the oven and then freeze it? My sister-in-law said that you were suppose to make it up and only partially cook it (about 1/2 hour), then when you thaw it cook it for another 1/2 hour. What do you guys do?

Oh, and by the way, my wedding cake is still in the freezer. We've been married for sixteen years!!!! We never ate it on our first year anniversary and then we got superstitous!!!! It is downstairs in the freezer. I forget that I have it down there but am now too scared to throw it away!

 

[mrsboz]

I just thought of something - you guys probably think my house is gross and I'm a pack rat because of the cake saving. No, I'm actually not like that at all my house is very clean and I don't save anything else.

 

[ceecee]

Oh, and by the way, my wedding cake is still in the freezer. We've been married for sixteen years!!!! We never ate it on our first year anniversary and then we got superstitous!!!! It is downstairs in the freezer. I forget that I have it down there but am now too scared to throw it away!

Take a bite and throw it out!

 

[jamzots]

lovewdwdvc is absolutely right!
I also freeze meals. Like tonight I'm making chicken enchiladas I will make 1 pan for tonite and a 2nd pan for the freezer for next month (I just add olives before cooking)
I also freeze meatloaf/meatballs. This trick is a time saver, I make the mixture for meatloaf in my big mixer (less messy fingers) but doubling or tripling the ingredients. Make 1 loaf for that nights dinner, make a 2nd and freeze in plastic and foil wrap. and also roll out meatballs, freeze them on a tray then when frozen place them in a zippy freezer bag.
I do the same w/ lasagne, broccoli rice casserole, quiche.
I also freeze leftover taco meat, spaghetti sauce, chili, etc.

I wonder if y ou could freeze something like eggplant rollatini??? And would you bake it first before freezing it?? What about lasagna?? Would you freeze it uncooked or bake it and then freeze?? I usually mix eggs in with my ricotta cheese. Would this make a difference when freezing casserolles without cooking them first??? I am just wondering because I want to make a couple of dishes for Christmas and then freeze them.

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

The cupcake idea won't work for us, I make my own frosting and it'd be a pain to have to whip up frosting every time I wantd a cupcake!

I freeze already frosted cupcakes almost every month. They thaw out fine and taste fine too. You should try it.