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And it was actually REALLY good!  I expected it to be ehhh but it was delicious!  Still soft and moist, buttercream tasted good and so did the filling (caramel creme)!

Have any other bees actually liked the taste of their wedding cake one year later?  Funny story, my aunt and uncle never had their cake 1 year after but they did 25 years later!!!  They went out to dinner with their kids and my aunts mom for their anniversary and my grandma pulled out their 25 year old cake and they ate it!  Turns out when my grandma moved a couple times she kept moving the cake with the freezer and never realized it and found it for them on their 25th anniversary!!

If any bees would like instructions of how my MIL prepared the cake for freezing for a year and how we defrosted it, please let me know and Id be happy to share the instructions from my bakery!

25 year old cake?

I can't imagine how that remained good.  Even stuff in the freezer has a shelf life.

Glad your year old cake was good though.  FI and I haven't decided if we're doing this or not.

This is what my MIL did as instructed by the bakery:

Send your cake home with someone after the reception and have them freeze the cake in the box but not wrapped for 2 days.  Make sure there are no holes in the frosting.  If there are, smooth out with your finger.

After 2 days, remove from freezer and and wrap tightly in Saran Wrap.  Do not use other brands as they may stick or make the cake taste weird.  Use Saran Wrap only.  Wrap several times (my MIL wrapped the entire top about 5-7 times).  Then cover completely in foil once or twice.  Place the wrapped cake in a freezer size zip lock bag (or whatever bag will fit your cake) and seal.  Place back in the box and place it in the freezer, near the back where it is the coldest. 

To defrost:

Remove cake from freezer.  Remove from zip lock bag, remove foil.  Carefully remove all Saran wrap (mine came off very easily and didnt stick).  Place cake back in the box and place in the fridge for 1 day with the cake box lid closed (ours was open a bit because our white chocolate shells were still on top of the cake and made it so the box didnt fully close).  Make sure there are no aromatic items near the cake such as onions, garlic, etc.

After it has been in the fridge for a day, remove from box, cut and enjoy!  We had our cake in the fridge for a full day then brought it with us to our hotel that night where it sat out for a couple hours before we ate it.

Just a note - our cake was white with a caramel creme filling and vanilla buttercream frosting.  Im not sure how it will work with whipped cream frosting.  If you have fondant, I would suggest removing the fondant before freezing, but ask your baker for their recommendation!

@marzipanmrs - from what I heard the cake was not very good 25 years later.  I am just shocked they still ate it :)  My favorite part though is that they were able to eat it with their 23 yr old daughter and 20 yr old son!

Oh and the best part, I got to smash it in DH's face and he didnt even see it coming!  He (nicely) got to push some of the cake in my face at our cake cutting (I told him it was ok as long as he stayed below the nose and didnt smash so hard it ruined my makeup).  We were about to eat the cake last night and I picked up a piece and smashed it in his face.   I thought I was totally obvious but he started laughing and said he just thought I was picking it up to eat it instead of using the fork!

@naangel55:  Thanks for the info!  My MIL also wrapped ours up, but I'm not sure how she did it.  There is no box though... just looks like a bunch of foil wrapped around several times.  She's so cute... she put a post-it on it and wrote "Eat me on June 5, 2011"  :)

@MrsT2Bee: that is terrible!  Did they KNOW?  They had to, Im sure they know what your wedding cake looked like.  I hope they offered to go buy you another replica top tier of your cake.  Even though it wont be the same at least you will have something.