I need to make 50 cupcakes for a birthday party on Tuesday next week. I have read previous posts, and just want to check that my plan is the best one:
Sunday - decorate cupcake display board
Monday - bake 50 cupcakes. Cool in cupcake wrappers (cool completely or leave slightly warm?).
- place on cookie tray, freeze cupcakes singly (not in a bag...sitting on the tray)
- once frozen, place cupcakes into 1 gallon freezer bags without glad wrap over them (loose) and return to freezer
- make buttercream, color, and place into decorating bags into fridge ready to go
* should I even bother to freeze them? Maybe just store overnight in bags? What do you think? (I still would love advice on the above though)
Tuesday - late morning - pull cupcakes out of freezer (they will thaw quickly - tropical island). Leave in bags for one hour, then open slightly to allow some air during defrosting process (do they need to be fully defrosted before frosting them)?
- midday: frost cupcakes
- serve 3pm
Thank you for your feedback!
That's a lot of work just to take them out the next day. I would just cool them and then keep them in an airtight container. My grocery store carries these large, rectangular tupperware type containers. Each holds about a dozen. Then just frost them the next day.
Absolutely not reason to freeze the cupcakes if you are baking them the night before. Once completely cool, just put them in an air tight container and you are good to go. I would probably invest in two cupcake carriers and use them to store and transport the cupcakes. Unless of course you are just dropping the cupcakes off then you will want to think of a something disposable to transport the cupcakes in.
I don't see a need to freeze them if they are needed for the day before. I only freeze cupcakes of I'm doing a huge order and want to get the baking out of the way. Some cupcake liners start to pull away from the liner as they defrost. Cool them, store them in a box, or container until time to decorate and they'll be fine.
I’ve iced cupcakes the day before, popped them into a container, no lid, let them sit overnight till delivery. But I see you mentioned you live in a tropical climate, so assuming hot, hot, hot. Now this is just my personal opinion. I made and transported over 50 cupcakes on one of the hottest most humid days ever. Total disaster. I was fairly new to decorating. I didn’t have an insulated cold delivery van, nor do I have one now. I always took extra icing, piping bags, etc. Thank goodness I did. Basically, had to repipe or fix half the cupcakes. In hindsight, I could have piped and froze my cupcakes, but I really didn’t have the room in my freezer, and I also didn’t want my piping to get crushed. I’ve done more cupcake deliveries since, and I do one of two things depending on how many cupcakes I’m making, how far I’m driving and the weather. If it’s summer, hands down, I go early, pipe my cupcakes wherever they are being delivered to and set them up. It honestly doesn’t take that long to pipe 50 cupcakes. Much less stressful than transporting and worrying about the icing melting in the heat and humidity.
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