Frozen cake: the best way to keep the taste fresh for a long time

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Now in stores you can find an unusual confection - a frozen cake. Many people think that this is a kind of ice cream that is beautifully designed in the form of a delicacy so beloved by many sweet tooth. Let's try to figure out what it really is.

Frozen cake: what's the difference?

As it turned out, the secret lies in a special way of processing the finished confectionery product, which is frozen in order to preserve its consumer properties. At the same time, deep shock freezing is used, which increases the shelf life of the cakes - they will be just as fresh and tasty throughout the whole year, and without the use of far from unhe althy preservatives.

Regular cake can be eaten no later than three days from the date of its baking. This time includes its delivery by the manufacturer to stores, sale to the consumer, serving and eating. It happens that the distributors, when the expiration date of the confectionery product, go to various tricks so as not to be at a loss. The most commona scam is a fake of the expiration date of the cake.

Benefits of frozen cakes

Unlike usual, a frozen cake can be delivered to remote settlements without fear of its expiration date. As a rule, such confectionery products are transported in special corrugated cardboard boxes, which are an excellent thermal insulator. Thanks to this property of the packaging material, frozen confectionery products do not melt for a long time and retain their shape.

To defrost such a cake, you do not need any special conditions: just leave it for two hours in the kitchen. You should not use a microwave for these purposes, because only the outer layer can melt, and the core of the dessert will remain frozen. For the convenience of customers, such confectionery products are sold already cut - no need to defrost the whole cake, you can get as many pieces as you need.

Delivery from abroad

If one of the tourists wants to bring an unusual tasty souvenir to their relatives as a gift, you can always take the opportunity to treat them to a real masterpiece from foreign confectioners. An ordinary cake is not easy to ship fresh from abroad, but thanks to modern freezing technology, you can try original foreign delicacies, for example, authentic Italian tiramisu, cheesecake from the USA, French pastries. By the way, it’s not at all necessary to bring these goodies from abroad yourself, because now many industries have home delivery services.

Frozen desserts are popular not only among tourists - many cafes do not have their own confectioners and treat visitors to such delicacies, as this is more profitable than paying for the work of a specialist.

Frozen cakes: recipe and freezing features

What does the technology of making such a delicacy look like? To get a frozen cake, you need to place the dessert on its day of manufacture in a special chamber in which shock freezing is performed, and then sharply lower the temperature to -15º … -25ºС. According to confectioners, pathogenic bacteria are destroyed using this method, so the final product is completely safe for the consumer.

Many are interested in the question: is it possible to freeze the cake at home? The production of products by the method of deep shock treatment is a technology that requires considerable financial costs and the availability of special refrigeration equipment, so not many food enterprises are engaged in such activities. It is much cheaper to use preservatives to increase the shelf life of your products. Accordingly, it is unlikely that you will be able to cook and freeze pastries at home.

So different and delicious

According to producers of frozen cakes (photos of desserts are posted in the article), such technologies do not pose a danger to the he alth of consumers and do not negatively affect the quality of confectionery products. This freezing method can be used to preserve any kind ofdesserts. The only exception is cakes with butter filling or vegetable cream cream, as they may lose their presentation due to deformation during transportation.

Freezing the Napoleon cake is also not a problem - there are desserts on sale made by both Russian and foreign companies. Many sweet tooths love this unpretentious puff pastry masterpiece, but it’s not always possible to cook it on your own. Purchasing a favorite delicacy in this version means that by placing it in the freezer, you can always be ready to meet unexpected guests. Heartfelt conversation with fragrant tea and delicious cake - what could be better?

Technology of the future

Experts involved in the study of the consumer market positively assess this method of freezing, which is environmentally friendly. It extends the shelf life of perishable foods such as cakes by up to 12 months. The main thing is that this does not affect their appearance and taste in any way. By the way, after defrosting, such confectionery can be stored again longer than ordinary cakes - for 120 hours.

Specialists in the field of nutrition believe that soon humanity will move away from the use of preservatives and will preserve the beneficial properties of products through deep freezing. This technology is already leading the way in European countries.

So if you see a box with such an unusual cake, do not hesitate - buy andtaste it!