Help!!!!! Please Icing Problem, And A Road Trip
Decorating By Ladivacrj Updated 4 Aug 2006 , 12:44am by Ladivacrj
I have a rush carrot cake order that is going with some friends in the morning on a 7-8 road trip to Maryland.
I plan to use a BC Cream Icing, is there anyway to stablize it to keep it from melting by the time they get to MD?
My first thought was to also add Meringue Powder.
HELP PLEASE!!!
Ladiva
If you are using butter in your buttercream I'm afraid I have not heard of a way to keep it from melting. The only things I've heard is freeze or refrigerate cake and turn AC on full blast and hope for the best. Mine didn't make it for an hour in a hundred degree heat. I even tried placing dry ice in the trunk with it. Maybe next time I'll try more than 5 lbs of it. I also didn't have cake cold at all. Room temp.
I'm sorry I have no suggestions as I'm still trying to figure that kind of stuff out myself- I only make cakes for family friends- but often times they travel half or full day without refrigeration- but I either BC them when I get to the other end or I've travelled with MMF covered cake before.
Hope it all works out for you!
I posted this same question earlier in the week after I found out a co-worker plans on taking one of my cakes on a 2 1/2 hour road trip.
I was told to try to use either sweetex or alpine shortening. If you don't have either, then use all crisco recipe for bc icing. Add your meringue powder and maybe a little more powdered sugar than usual.
Tell them to keep it in a A/C 'd car all the way there.
And as everyone keeps telling me....it is out of my control once I give it to them. They can do whatever they want to with it, but I have no control over it at that point.
Good Luck@!
Make sure they keep it in the passenger part of the car, as the trunk gets pretty hot
good luck
Bit too late to offer this advice (to them lol) but a travesty to have to travel in the heat of summer during day- oh well advice for next time there's a road trip and cake in tow during the summer: travel at night 
just an idea LOL
Thanks guys, I may be safe they can not leave until tonight after 7.
The cake are in the frig and I will ice the cold cake when I get home and put it back in the frig until they show up to get it.
I told them to put it in a cooler with some ice. I made them understand that they will be eating a cake with NO icing if they don't. Or they wil be scraping it off the side and bottom of the box.
It should be interesting to hear what happened after they get back. It is for one of the cousin's, wife's birthday.
And as you said fourangelsmommie, it is out of my control once I give it to them.
Thanks again
And as you said fourangelsmommie, it is out of my control once I give it to them.
Thanks again
Exactly and as soon as they drive off, you can relax and not stress about it anymore because you did your part! YAY!
Darn ya just reminded me I have to bake a carrot cake in 3 weeks LOL going to experiment with filling this time. Or maybe not, I don't know, she likes the carrot cake I make every year and specifically requests it, why ruin a good thing with an experiment 
Thought I would post a pic (in my photos) of the finished cake. They came to get it and hit the road.
It is in a cooler with some ice and has been shrink wrapped.
Breathing a little easier now, but still can't wait to hear if it made it there in one piece.
Thanks to you all for your help. We are getting some relief from the heat so hopefully that will help.
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