Making sisters wedding cake and she wants fresh strawberries!!!! If I cut them and put them in the cake tonight when we eat them on Sunday will they be OK? It will be in the refridg. till then but I don't want the withered or brown? What should I do? Will they bo OK? Is there anything I should pour over them to help them keep? Desperate!!!!!

Not on the cake... IN the cake right? I made fresh strawberries for a wedding cake that was covered with fondant and let it sit out for day and they were perfectly fine. So withyou refridging them should make it fine. Maybe mix in whip cream or something to make it not sog thru the cake.. I hope this helps......

Can you wait til last minute to put them on cake? I'm afraid they will bleed red on the cake if you put on now, plus they will probably be withered and the green leaves/stems may turn brown. You know how fruit looks so good at the grocery store but spoils so quickly when you bring home? Crazy!

Lisa

Sorry I was not sure if you meant in or on the cake. If on yeah wait til last minute because I made a cake a flag one a long time ago and as the strawberries sat ... they were fine in the fridge but started to run once I took it out of the fridge... so best thing to do is wait til last minute....

Do not cut them until right before you put them on the cake too. Strawberrries will juice once they have had their stem taken off.

Stephanie

yes it is in the cake . It is Lemon and she wants strawberry in between. I will also have a layer with lemon curd in it. When I did the sample cake for her I did lemon curd and strawberries on top of the curd, but she said it was to sweet for her. So this time I was going to just do one layer with lemon curde and the rest with strawberries.

I am definitely no expert..I have never even used fresh strawberries, but gosh, I think I would be a little nervous I think I'd be worried after 3 days they would be kind of mushy.

here is another thought...could you do the cake with just lemon curd, then when the cake is being cut serve fresh cut up strawberries with it?

I am no expert, but have eaten a lot of strawberries in my day, and I wouldn't risk it. Once strawberries are cut they just have so much juice, I would be afraid they would make the cake soggy!

I use fresh strawberries all the time , I cut them up and mix them with the glaze.

I am also the Maid of Honor so I can't wait till any time sooner because I am doing sooooooo much else. I can't even deliver the cake. I guess I am just going to have to put a layer of buttercream down then the strawberries on top and hope for the best.

My daughter has a cake recipe that she makes every Thanksgiving with sliced strawberries in a glaze in between the layers of cake. She makes it a day or two ahead of time and we scarf it down because it's so good! Can you mix them with a glaze (with an icing dam so the color doesn't bleed thru your icing)? Like the other suggestions above, I'd worry about sliced berries "juicing" up on you if it was more than a couple of days.

I don't know about strawberries in the cake. Might not be as bad as on the cake. My pics show how strawberries bled in just 3 hrs. I would think the berries would make it real soggy!! Good Luck

Why don't you mix the cut strawberrries with a jar of all fruit jam( strawberry flavored). It is very tasty and it will keep your strawberries from turning mushy.

I have done quite a few cakes with fresh strawberries in it. I make a dam and then a thin layer of icing, lay the strawberries on it and lightly spread a thin layer of strawberry preserve then the next layer of cake. Crumb coat it and let it sit for at least fifteen minutes. That way the layers have settled. Then I ice the cake. I also add not quite a pinch of sugar to the strawberries. This helps to preserve them. I have done this two days before the cake was to be cut and never had a problem. I just did a wedding cake this past weekend with lemon cake and fresh strawberries and everyone loved it. By the way I use a egg slicer to cut my strawberries, that way their even and lay prefectly.

Well, i've never used them IN but I do know that ON they make a oozy mess. I had put some slices on top of a cake I made and no more than an hour later after being in the fridge they started bleeding all over the place.

I always use fresh strawberries and whipped crean in my cakes, and even after 3 days in the fridge they are fine, just make sure to make a dom when torting, that will prevent any bleeding, if any, to pass thru the fondant.

Thanks everyone. I put icing then the icing dam and then the strawberries. Then I smashed a few and mixed in a little sugar. I think it wil be ok but I will let you know how it turnes out. Thanks again!!!!