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Culinary question please - no horticulture happening in this weather!

herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
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I am making a Yule Log for my brother for Christmas (standard fatless sponge) which has to be collected tomorrow for onward transmission.  My daughter has compiled a complicated but quite brilliant timetable to ensure that I and my brother get all our presents and Christmas dinner by 25th.

And now my dilemma.  I don't see how this will last until 25th when it will be delivered so thought I would freeze it however, want to fill with whipped cream and just not sure what will happen.

Alternative is fill with chocolate ganache - would that filling freeze better?

Hoping some culinary whizz is on-line before I have to make the choice.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    @Dovefromabove and @Obelixx One for you two I think?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Not me.  I loathe fatless sponges and thus never eat or make a Yule log.

    Having said that, I've always understood that whipped cream freezes OK but unwhipped cream separates so maybe it would be OK.  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • SuesynSuesyn Posts: 664
    Sweetened whipped  cream will freeze fine. (They sell frozen cakes with whipped cream in in all the supermarkets) l don't know if it is as successful if it's unsweetened. 
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Thank you @Obelixx I may just take a chance although the situation has changed a bit in the last hour as I am now in Tier 4  :s 

    Emergency phone call from daughter expecting to collect (currently in Tier2) to say elder daughter (in Tier 4) will now drop by in the pm.

    I'm getting confused now, my county has more tiers than my wedding cake!  Thank goodness the other gifts are all homemade preserves.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    You are a lifesaver @Suesyn thank you. I wouldn't dare not sweeten it for my brother!

    OK, whipped cream it is.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Ive never found fatless sponges  keep for more than the day they’re cooked, but perhaps that’s just mine and my mum’s.
    I make a usual Victoria cake mix for a log, that will keep. 
    So in answer to the question, the cream will freeze but  I’m not so sure a bout the cake.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Id go for it ... whipped and sweetened cream will freeze and a cream filling should help keep the sponge from drying out. But wrap very well. 
    Anyway ... there aren’t a lof if options given that we are where we are so yes, I say again ... go for it 😋 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Thank you to everyone for the advice. It is in the freezer with a sweetened whipped cream filling and chocolate buttercream bark.  Fingers crossed we don't fade into a full lockdown as I will be eating it myself!

    Happily the Christmas cakes are a doddle and take care of themselves - just hope I don't have to find another home for them!
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I did a dry run with Victoria sponge mix @Lyn but found it impossible to roll neatly. You would think 50 years of baking, 8years watching GBBO and all the time in the world I could have done better.

    As you say @Dovefromabove we are where we are and that is a very confusing place just now. We all decided a while ago not to spend Christmas together because the risk was too great, relying on daughters as couriers and Zoom as I am sure many are this year.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If you’re left with it in your hands @herbaceous, don’t forget us ... I’m sure we’d all be happy to help you out ... 🍰 😋 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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