re: Bake a cake the day of or day before?

The simple reason for the day before of importance is the event is a F'up. Most bakeries brush their cakes with a sweet syrup on the tops of them to moisten them a bit before construction of the finished product.


ETA, I remember that the syrup is generally made with apricot preserves for the base of it, not an over powering flavor that the eater would note.