Cake Etiquette On Delivery/presentation
Decorating By Lemonydoodles Updated 13 Sep 2007 , 6:35pm by Lemonydoodles
I am baking 3 seperate pieces for a employee picnic for my husband's company. They are doing a cake walk and are also having a cake decorating contest. I plan on putting in 1 of my items for the contest and realize it will be sitting out to be displayed. But my question is: Is it tacky to take a cupcake bouquet unwrapped or unboxed? I am also taking a tea pot and 2 cups cake and those also won't fit in a covered box....I just don't want to seem strange showing up like that if it is in poor taste. Thanks 
I personally don't feel it is in poor taste to deliver unboxed cakes when they are too large for a box. I watch Ace of Cakes every week and most of Duff's cakes are delivered unwrapped.
I don't have boxes big enough for my sheet cakes or cupcake cakes, so I always deliver those in the deep (clean!) cardboard fruit crates - the kind that hold punnets of grapes etc. I just place the cake in and then seal the whole thing with cling film (saran wrap). It's a good solution.
There have been times where I must deliver a cake unboxed....but in most cases I try to find/make one to cover them! I'll usually try to get them on a 1/4 or 1/2 sheet cake board so I can at least try to sit them in the matching box....maybe the lid is slanted...but I can cover the open areas with cling film! But, it's not always possible!
Thanks for all your advice. I feel pretty confidant now with not taking 2 of the items covered. Now, if I can just get there without something happening to them LOL
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