i need some advice for air travel with cake. I plan on making fondant cake (more durable that way). how do i pack it on the airplane and where would i stow it (under seat?). it will be a 2 tier wedding cake. what equipment do i need to buy? do i assemble everything beforehand? thanks in advance.
Hi there
I recentlyhad to fly with a 2 tier wedding cake... our airline had restrictions with the wire that was on the flowers as hand luggage - so I had to pull them apart - put the wire in the suitcase, and all the rest of the cake I packed into 2 boxes with rope around so I could carry it like a bag as hand luggage... everything was packed really well - lots of padding / wadding to stop slipping & sliding.
I put the boxes in the overhead lockers - there's more room in there than you imagine! The rest of my handluggage was pretty minimal.
The top of the boxes I left open of cardboard & covered in plastic so they could see in them. If your flowers or decorations are sugar/fondant... make sure you ask them to security scan them buy hand. The rubber thingys in the scanner converyer belt can smash them up quite easily.
As for tools, I pretended to make a flower or assemble stuff in my head and figure out what tools I needed to do all that stuff... If you know what I mean.
It was a bit nerve racking I must admit... and I don't think I'll do it again in a hurry... but it all turned out fine in the end.
If you look at my pictures... the cake I took was the 2 tier with frangipanis (sugar flowers - all 200 of them!)
Hope this helps...
Fi
PS: GOOD LUCK!
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