So! It turns out that my cake/ cupcake bases freeze incredibly well. These cupcake bases were stored in airtight containers in our freezer since Easter! Once removed from the freezer, I let them defrost naturally - at room temperature - and my gosh, they actually tasted ridiculously good!! So it turns out you can freeze cakes successfully as long as you follow the process of storing them correctly in the freezer!
The next experiment, was freezing buttercream icing. After my last baking project with Aime, for Pride Month, I still had almost a liter each of the green icing and the strawberry icing.
I took them out of the freezer and also let them defrost naturally at room temperature and they were both excellent and ready to go!
So, with about 12 chocolate bases and almost 24 vanilla bases, I let the kids go wild and pipe and decorate their own cupcakes! It was a really cool bonding experience for them that got them working together and doing something other that just sitting on their phones with headphones on.
All this teaches me that I think I need to clear out one of our two freezers and keep it exclusively for baking goodies! If I have ready made ingredients on hand it could make things go so much faster when I need to (like for kiddies arties or bake sales when you know the kids are going to lick all he icing off and abandon the base no matter how delicious and fresh it may be), but honestly, I'm going to be very picky about what I freeze because I want everything I bake to taste fresh and homemade. If you wan to buy baked goods that have been kept in a freezer, then you may as well just go to the supermarket.
Some things are worth not compromising on and sometimes you can cheat! As long as you do a taste test... of course!!