Directions For Shipping Cakes
Decorating By Simplydelicious Updated 30 Sep 2005 , 2:45pm by alengirl
For anyone that has been wondering how to ship a cake, I have the answer. I recently sent a decorated cake from GA to MO and had no problems with the shipping. The customer told me the cake was perfect when he received it the next day.
I called several cake decorators around the country to try to get some information about shipping a decorated cake and got absolutley no help. It took me a while but I finally got the information that I needed, and I am passing it on to you. I hope this will answer any question you may have.javascript:emoticon('
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First you need to find a Dry Ice distributor in your area. If you don't have one you can get in touch with Cold Freight in Lithia Springs, GA at www.coldfreight.com. Next, if you have a local distributor you can have them pack it for you in dry ice. If you don't have a distributor in your area, pack you cake in a cake box as usual, you can freeze the cake ahead if you want, but it is not necessary. Get a styrofoam container that is big enough to hold your cake. (I don't recommend anything above a 1/2 sheet cake.) Put your dry ice on top and around your cake box (the cake will freeze in a matter of minutes if not already frozen) and put the styrofoam container inside of a corrugated box that will hold the styrofoam container snuggly.
You must know the exact weight of the dry ice that you put in the container because of the gas that the dry ice put off and where they will place the container in the plane. Dry ice is considered a hazerdous material and because of that fact they tend to handle your package with more care than a regular package.
The best way to ship is via FedEx because they only use their cargo planes. The only draw back to shipping a decorated cake is that it is extremely expensive. I shipped a 9", the styrofoam, corrugated boxes and dry ice cost me about $13.00 and that was the next to smallest box and 5 lbs of dry ice, they go up from there. Shipping would have been about $100.00 except for that fact that I am able to get a huge discount off of shipping it only cost me about $25.00 to ship.
My suggestion is that if you are planning to ship a decorated cake, think about all of the cost associated with it, it can be very costly. If your customer is willing to pay for it then go for it.
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