Good evening everyone,
Need to ask all my friends at cc this question tonight because I have the supporting cousines in CA. They have seen all my cakes from start to finish, but never had the chance to see one of my cakes finished and not just a picture. I would like to do either a half sheet cake with something with a winter theme.
I hope that there is someone out there to help me with shipping this cake, and get it there in one piece 
I would be shipping Fedex, or UPS overnight delievey. But how would I package it up for shipping?
Thanks everyone
mrsjah
hmmmmmmmmm...that I have never done! All I can say is good luck, and I think I would just find the excuse to take a vacation to Ca!!
Brenda
I just saw a thread about this probably a week or so ago...I'll see if I can find it. It was really informative...
I think they did a fondant covered cake, secured it to the board with icing and dowels, wrapped it and then packed popcorn or shipping peanuts all around and it arrived in perfect condition.
Funny that you would bring this up...I have relatives in CA as well that have been wanting to see my cakes, but they were here this weekend and I made my first Topsy Turvy for them.
I asked a similiar question, and this was the reply I was given
"What I do is bake & ice the cake as usual. Make sure your cake is "sealed" to the board really well with icing, and that the cake board underneath is wrapped either with press n seal or foil. Try NOT to leave little "air holes" between the cake & board around the edges!
(There's a method to my madness here)
WITHOUT wrapping the cake, put it into your freezer for like 12 hours or so, and let it get ROCK HARD!
Before you take and wrap it, have everything ready to go outside the freezer, so that you can wrap it quickly. Your press n seal, foil, bubble wrap, and some of those "peanuts" or balls of newspaper are good. You'll need one of those cheapie coolers made of styrofoam, and a shipping cardboard box big enough to put that thing in.
Load the cardboard box with a few balls of newspaper, to keep the cooler from bashing around. Place the cooler inside the box, with the lid open. Said cooler should now be "padded" well on the outside. Now place your cake, after wrapping VERY WELL in couple layers saran/press n seal/and FOIL inside bottom of cooler. PUT A LAYER OF CUT CARDBOARD OR TWO ON TOP OF CAKE!
Now put a square of dry ice in on the cardboard. You should be able to get this from a good grocery, already wrapped for you. Pack more newspaper balls on, close cooler, wrap Tape & head to the post office.
Mark "fragile" "cake" and/or "food shipment FRAGILE" on there, and you're good to go.
I've done this with the addictive cheesecakes I do, and like two or three cakes, and people say they get there fine. The trick is to use plenty of layers of CARDBOARD between the dry ice and the cake"
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