I received my first order on my website www.miosweets.com but since I wasn't ready with the shipping and payment info it was something else of an experience. I set up a Paypal account which I need to activate and use on my site so that takes care of that problem but does anyone know how to ship a decorated/frosted cake? My first order was for a frosted cake from New Jersey I sent it to Chicago...the lady still ate it after it got there with the frosting all over the place. Any advice? I know that 1800 flowers ships frosted cakes and so do many other businesses. How do they do that?
I don't see anyway a buttercream cake could possibly be shipped via the normal carriers.
DON'T DO IT!!!! My cousin got married last month and I had to ship her cake. I froze it. Shipped it in 2 seperate containers. Doweled the hole thing and the UPS guys threw it around. When it got to the church the driver dropped it in front of my cousin. They soooo don't take care if it even when FRAGILE/WEDDING CAKE is All over the box. It cost me $356 to ship it. OMG Just don't do it. Even when 9' cakes are shipped they are still a mess when they get there unless they were completly frozen solid.
Ok did I stress enough..Don't do it! LOL. Good luck.
Thank you ladies for your advise. I appreciate them all. You poor thing Silver044...my God that is really expensive, that's like a roundtrip airplane ticket! The lady that ordered the cake insisted on it having buttercream frosting and I even suggested sending her the buttercream separately with a decorator kit that they sell at the dollar stores for her to have fun but nope...she wanted it that way. I didn't charge her for it because I knew it would be a mess. She still insists on sending me a check for the cake. This was too funny. I sent it Memorial Day weekend so she waited quite a while to receive it.
Yup. People are crazy. My cousin insisted that I make her cake. She paid me $300. That wasn't even enough to cover the cost of the cake. I lost over $150 on that cake. Oh well...I know NEVER to do that again. Yes I could have drove from TX to Ohio with the money that I spent on shipping, and I could have been at the wedding. Well at least everyone loved it. You can see a pic of it. It is a plain buttercream cake with purple ribbon around the bottom. There is a big plastic chunk in the middle because I had to pull it apart to ship it. I just needed a pic of it before shipping.
Good luck decorating!
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