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Default how to keep cakes best in coffee bar?

"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
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> -keevill- wrote:
>> I have a small coffee bar and would like to sell cakes. I think I would
>> like to sell/display slices of different types of cakes rather than 2 or
>> 3 large cakes giving less choice.
>> I must buy full cakes and slice them up but how can I best keep the stock
>> ? In freezer will they keep fresh for how long ? I cannot expect high
>> sales yet I would like to sell variety.

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> Slice them. Freeze them in heavy duty sealable plastic with as much air
> pressed out as possible. Each morning, defrost as many slices as you
> think you might reasonably sell. Display them where the customers can see
> them. Warm them in the oven just before serving.



Cakes with frosting are going to look mighty ugly after the treatment you
just described.