OMG! that is so cute.

Happy Anniversary ? Try it, report back.

Our cake was dry after one year. The butter cream frosting was still good, if I remember correctly.

Yeah, we never ate the top of the cake after a year - it was in someone else's freezer at the time. Then we moved around quite a bit and didn't retrieve the cake for a few years. By then it was far too late to eat it but we felt weird just throwing it away. So fast forward 40+ years and we still have the cake. We've looked at it a few times - it's faded but otherwise doesn't look too bad. Now we have come to the point that we're going to turn the fridge off at our lake place where the cake has been stored for years. I don't have room for it in my freezer at home and I still don't want to just throw it in the garbage.

So I'm thinking about what else I can do with it - a cremation ceremony on our anniversary came to mind but we won't be with the cake that day. That idea morphed into wondering about a dehydrated pile of dust that I could preserve in some kind of covered glass container. I suppose if it wasn't completely dehydrated I could make it so but I don't have a lot of time to mess around with it before I leave for SC.

There's one way to find out...thaw it and see what it does!

You certainly are not going to eat it but you do need to do something special. I would take a photo, perhaps if you can a selfienwith the cake.

I would use a biodegradeable bag to bury it in a place that holds special meaning for the two of you.

Not exactly same, but you reminded me this chocale teddy bear I got for my first married Christmas.

I suppose it must have some nutrients in it? I would add it to soil and plant a tree with it.

I like Eld or Mtn's suggestion. We did take a bite out of our wedding cake on our first year anniversary. It was awful LOL. A bite was all we had. Happy Anniversary! You are 4 years ahead of us : )

I thought about composting it in some meaningful spot like the church where we got married - torn down to expand the county government center, the place where we had our grooms dinner - also no longer there, the motel where we stayed on our wedding night - gone though the sign is still there and nothing has been built in it's place. We had a "reception" at my mother/2nd husband's lake home but they're long gone. I suppose we could send it floating out into that lake from a public landing. We met in Duluth - maybe we could drop it into Lake Superior. I'd have to somehow cram it into my freezer at home and do that in the spring.

Happy Anniversary 3katz!

Eld that chocolate bear would not have lasted a week in my house, it would have been a stealth race between DH and me to get to it first. Likewise, 3katz, our kids would have found and demolished any cake extant regardless of age. I guess at this point I would make a special dinner and have a small backup cake of a similar size and decoration ready. Bring out the old cake, try it, take a picture of it, and have the new cake to commemorate the milestone and celebrate the years yet to come,

Food in a freezer doesn’t last forever. It just decays more slowly. I don’t think you need to re-freeze it. Take it to SC where you are starting the next chapter of your married life. Whiz it in the blender and sprinkle the ”ashes” across your lawn.

We all have tried things that failed. You throw it away and try again. This attempt to keep your wedding cake failed. Throw it away and order a cake that looks and tastes like your original wedding cake for your 50th anniversary.

I saw that sold for some ridiculous amount of money, Pal. There is def a market for anything!

Oh no Jennifer - it wasn't a failure at all. The point of keeping it wasn't to eat it.

@bbstx - that's not a bad idea - "composting" it somewhere down there. I'm thinking about pulling it out of the freezer and drying it out if it isn't completely dried out already. I can then turn it into powder for "future use".

As a longtime composter, I like the idea of a ceremonial planting of something that has personal meaning, with the cake placed in the planting hole.

It could even be in a large pot/container, if you don't have a permanent outdoor spot.

And yes, happy anniversary to you!

What would you do with cake powder?

If you need permission, this is what I told a friend who had saved her baby’s first diaper.

For over 25 years!

It’s ok to throw it away.

I think it would be like one of those sunken Viking boats completely preserved underwater that turn to dust when they are pulled out.

I'm just impressed that you've had 46 years without loss of a freezer ofrpower that would have resulted in it being tossed long ago. Cake is rarely/barely edible at one year, so no question it is dry and full of freezer burn. I am not sure if it would be safe to pull it out and turn it into a powder or if that you could with normal household methods considering the fat in the frosting. It's likely to mold and/or go rancid. It's not going to be pretty to look at. I'm sentimental, but I say it's time to let it go.

I haven’t read all the comments, but I would stick a candle in it, take a photo of the 2 of you cute people beside it, and then maybe (big maybe) take a tiny bite of frosting. Then have a burial ceremony of your choosing.

Happy Anniversary!

Update - DH is not in favor of retiring the cake just yet. He wants to wait until our 50th. He never has much of an opinion about such matters but since he does in this case I will find a way to accommodate. I'll cram it in our freezer at home and then may have to take it back to the lake place in the spring. I'm working on using up the food in the freezer so there should be room in there while we're gone.

Sometimes I say I'm going to write a book called My Unconventional Life. This is yet another topic for the book.

The thought of saving it until your 50th crossed my mind as well -- then you can have a new cake for the next 50. If you want to do a compost planting, there is a golden anniversary rose. I gave my mom and dad one for their 50th.

I like the idea of a burial at sea, or lake in this case. Toss a bridal bouquet on it.

When we cleaned out Mom’s freezer, we found this. We thawed it and fed it to the fox, who survived just fine.

Omigosh, dedtired, that reminds me of when I was helping a friend empty her house for a move. I was doing the garage fridge. From the refrigerator I dumped several gallons of juice that had expired the year before, and from the freezer, pizzas and such that, in calculating dates, had been purchased two homes ago, and were already expired when she moved to that current home. (yes, a bit of a hoarder)

Well that reminds me of what I was doing yesterday - emptying my cupboards of expired packaged items and figuring out what to cook that would use some of those items and contents of my freezer. I guess if I do this every year when I move about then I'll never have stuff that is many years old. Already did that at the lake place and will be emptying that fridge completely as well - something we never did in the past as we went there in the winter.

They say the dates on food are not really legitimate, but why risk it I always think.

What did your cake look like, 3Katz? what does it look like now? Congrats on your long marriage!

I don't throw things away if it's not too far past the BB date - like if I'm in the same year. But if it's older than that I toss. I've tried a few things that were "old" and they get stale even if they won't make you sick.

Since you asked what it looks like I decided to take a look. It’s been many years since I’ve done that. It’s collapsed a bit - probably happened when the power was out for three days. I don’t remember the little bag of roses.

That’s amazing it’s still somewhat intact. Like a mummy, it’s probably dehyrdrated. Keeping it until your 50th is a fun idea.

We never got a piece of cake. We were leaving for our honeymoon the day after the reception so we took nothing with us other than a couple cookies. The bakery said they make anniversary cakes a year later, but both Dh and I were not back in my hometown around that time to get it.