Should I Bake Before OR After Freezing

kah22

I want to prepare a little finger food for an event a month or so down the road. I'm talking Scones: Plain, Fruit and Savory. I'm also thinking of home made sausage rolls.

Here's the question is it best to cook the above first and then freeze, or is it best to just prepare the food, freeze and cook when needed? I will have plenty of time to do the defrost.

My thinking is to just make the sausage rolls, freeze before cooking and cook when required. If going down this road should I defrost or cook from frozen, Ill be using shop bought puff pastry. Delia does a flaky pastry (Delia) but I'm thinking that a pre-rolled puff pastry would be much handier and possibly tastier.

However,I'm not to sure about the scones. Cook first, defrost, and micro? Half cook, pop into a hot cooker for ten minutes or thereabouts?

Tell me what you would do? Oh yes and many thanks in advance.

Kevin

Mr Simpson

Scones, bake first, freeze and then into the oven to defrost and warm.

Sausage rolls, I'm not sure. But make sure they're properly defrosted either way.

LaChatteGitane

I would bake the scones and do as mmcn90 said.

The sausage rolls I would freeze before baking.
I've made finger food like this before and it works well. Cook in a hot oven from frozen though.

kah22

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

I would bake the scones and do as mmcn90 said.

The sausage rolls I would freeze before baking. .

Would you defrost after taking them out of the freezer or would you just put them straight into a hot oven, say 200. Times?

Kevin

LaChatteGitane

I'd put them in a hot oven from frozen too. 200°C for maybe 10 minutes. Take them out and put on a cooling rack. In the event that they were not totally heated up throughout, the heat will be distributed into the scones more evenly from the moment they get out of the oven, without drying out or browning too much.

sdp

As above, scones are great to freeze, we make them for the school lunches every weekend, I take them out in the mourning, place on wire rack, and they will defrost in about an hour, as good as when they were baked,( I don't reheat them as need to butter and jam them) I freeze unbaked sausage rolls in single layers till frozen, pastry keeps it shape, then packed into box,cook from frozen preheat oven to 220c , brush with beaten egg, as I make large ones they take about 30 mins, cool on wire rack.

LaChatteGitane

Yes, freeze in a single layer before puuting them all together in a freezer bag. If not they'll stick together and ice crystals may form between them.

I guess with the scones it depends on whether you want to serve them warm or cold. If cold, you can just defrost them on the kitchen counter, like sdp said