Does anyone have a good method for transporting cupcakes without them falling over in the box, etc.
I don't want to buy a fancy carrier. Is there a home-made method you have found successful.
I read somewhere on CC and this took a little bit of time, but worked really well...
line the bottom of a large box (like an underbed storage box) with styrofaom or thick foam core
cover the foam with saran wrap or press n seal or foil
stick toothpicks into the foam
impale the cupcakes onto the toothpicks
I know it sounds weird, but they won't jostle into eachother and mess up all your hard work on the frosting, and noone will notice the tiny hole in the bottom
or you could just get a cupcake courier 
I just glue mine down to the board with a dab of icing.
I know you're looking for a home-made solution but I really love these box inserts for cupcakes: http://www.brpboxshop.com/bakery_boxes/1498.html
I use a dab of melted chocolate from candy melts. I have not had any trouble yet with them tipping over.
Hope this helps.
God Bless, Sharon
Go to your local grocery store and ask for the boxes that the strawberries come in. These boxes interlock together and stack on top of each other.
I transported 200 cupcakes like this and let me tell you how easy it was. And they are FREE! Just make sure they are clean.
Good Luck
I use a dab of melted chocolate from candy melts. I have not had any trouble yet with them tipping over.
Hope this helps.
God Bless, Sharon
This seems like a good solution... is it hard to pull them off? I always try to think of a way so a customer can take them without problems, without me having to order a case of inserts because I don't make them very often. I had thought of icing but didn't want the cupcakes to be messy.
If you want to purchase the plastic containers that you see cupcakes in at the grocery store go to http://wesellcoffee.com/page70.html (don't ask) and scroll down. They have containers for miniature and regular cupcakes starting at $0.29 each. Check out their other containers. They are pretty nice too.
I had a 120 cupcake wedding to deliver last month. It was about 30 miles away. Here's what I did and it worked wonderfully:
I went to Walmart and got the plastic boxes the bakery uses to sell their sheet cakes. They have black flat bottoms and then a clear lid that fits snugly in a channel around the black base. The bakery guy only charged me $1 for each so I got three. I would've gotten more, but felt I was pushing it w/ 3. Three was not enough, so I used some shallow cardboard boxes that a case of Dr Pepper from Sam's came in. I think I had two or three of those. I liked them because they are only a couple inches high, and easy to reach into. Either one works, but the walmart ones have covers which can be handy.
I cut non-skid shelf liner to fit and put a piece in the bottom of the cardboard boxes, and also on the flat black plastic bases. Then I loaded my cupcakes on them, leaving enough room to be able to actually pick them up w/out smooshing them. Using those precut cardboard inserts I always end up w/ bc on my fingers - yuck for the customer! 
Then I covered the ones that had the plastics lids, and took them out to my van where I had put the middle seats down and covered the floor w/ more non-skid liner. Those suckers never moved - not in their containers, and not in the van! It worked great and I would do it again if I had to. That, and cold a/c did the trick!
PM me if that made no sense, or if you need help. And good luck!
If you want to purchase the plastic containers that you see cupcakes in at the grocery store go to http://wesellcoffee.com/page70.html (don't ask) and scroll down. They have containers for miniature and regular cupcakes starting at $0.29 each. Check out their other containers. They are pretty nice too.
This is cool! I could not find where they are located though. I'd love to order the cupcake things but then shipping makes it not worth it. However I noticed that we are in the "one day shipping" band which means it has to be somewhere around here???
No kitagrl,
Family and friends said they have never had any trouble taking them off the board. I have done this with foil & paper cupcake baking cups.
I just melt some the candy melts put a dab on the board (if the candy is to hot...let it cool just second or two) then I just place the cupcake on the dot or dab of candy.
My daughter took some to my son & his family in Ohio (about an 7 hour trip) and had no trouble with tipping over, and I had like 8 cupcakes going around a decorated 8in. cake.
God Bless,
Sharon
psurrette, can you explain the strawberry boxes? Do you mean the plastic ones that snap shut? it sounds like a good idea, I just can't get a visual of what they look like
psurrette, can you explain the strawberry boxes? Do you mean the plastic ones that snap shut? it sounds like a good idea, I just can't get a visual of what they look like
No its the big box they come in from the supplier. its like 18X20 or something like that. They work awesome for tranporting lots of cupcakes
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