I've got an order for a tiered cake (2 tiers) for a birthday party. Just wondering if there's any way to transport this already stacked or if the only way is for me to go to the site of the party and put it together and finish decorating there. Any ideas? Thank you!

I drive stacked cakes all the time. I put a dowel through the entire cake and they've never moved.

HTH

Make sure your cake is properly constucted (ESSENTIAL for cake survival)and then cut a dowel to the height of the cake, sharpen one end and use a mallet or hammer to tap firmly (not too hard) the dowel thru the cakes and cake board separating the two cakes. This will provide stability. When transporting use non-skid shelf liner under the cake and/or cakebox to prevent the cake from moving in the car during transport. Completely flat area in the car-no laps or back seats!

My next question--do you put the cake in a big box or just a regular sized cake box to fit the bottom tier without the top on it? Thanks!

I try and find a big enough box... but sometimes it's tough. I have transported small 2 tiered cakes in my round cake caddy... and larger ones in a big stockpot that I use for canning
Basically, I like anything that's going to prevent anything from falling on the cake, or touching the sides...

Thanks for including a picture--and that's a beautiful cake in the box! That's about the size of the cake I'm making. What type of plastic is over the box?

If you're going to use fondant, you can use the large cake plates by Wilton (those circle silver things) and just wrap the cake loosely with saran wrap.

do you mean stacked or tiered (you used both terms). Stacked likely is fine. I wouldn't transport a tiered cake.

Diane--thank you so much; your link was very helpful!

Also, I guess I was using the terms tiered and stacked interchangably--but I just mean one cake sits right on top of another--no columns in between. So, Diane's method looks like it will work great!

To me, stacked/tiered is like tomato/tomahto. I feel comfortable transporting 2 tiers, maybe 3 if it's a small cake (the drapes cake was transported stacked but I also put two longs dowels thru it since it had a 2 hour ride) but if the cake is bigger/more tiers than that I have finished stacking on-site.

Forgot to add-Welcome to CC!

To me, stacked and tiered mean the same thing. "Pillared" would be different and definitely could not be transported assembled.