Cake Travel

Decorating By Nickilyn Updated 15 Jul 2007 , 1:45am by hhcakes

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Nickilyn Posted 15 Jul 2007 , 1:29am
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Good Evening All,

I need a cake that can travel 4-4.5 hrs in a car. This is a birthday cake for my aunt. I know a 3-D cake is out of the question but I was thinking of a maybe a 3-layer round covered in fondant with a mousse filing...since the car will be air conditioned...I guess it will be okay.

I would really like to decorate with buttercream basketweave but this cake is going from Louisiana to Texas so we're talking heat and humidity and more heat.

Any suggestions?

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mjs4492 Posted 15 Jul 2007 , 1:34am
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Hi,
In May, I had to take a cake from wayyyyy down south Alabama to Macon, Georgia. It was chocolate cake iced with buttercream. It made it fine with the A/C on!

P.S.: it was a 10" x 3" square cake. I went to Winn Dixie and got one of their sheet cake plastic trays with a cover. It was a very, very tight fit but it worked. I didn't put the cover all the way down; just set it on the bottom tray.

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tyty Posted 15 Jul 2007 , 1:36am
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Maybe just ice the cake and add the basketweave and decorations on site.

Or use a crusting BC, decorate and drive non-stop.

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hhcakes Posted 15 Jul 2007 , 1:45am
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I took a decorated wedding cake on an 8 hr. trip in a bus. We chartered a bus for family members to go to a wedding and I had the cake decorated but not stacked. All the cakes were in boxes and I stowed some in the overhead bins and the biggest were in the back of the bus on the floor. Everything made it! It was a 4 tierd cake plus 2 tierd groom's cake and a rehearsal dinner cake. I put everything together and finished it when we got there. This was NOT in the summer...I would need to rethink traveling in heat and humidity.

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