Transporting A Wedding Cake Long Distance

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Transporting a wedding cake long distance.

If traveling long distances with your cake let us know so we can chill it before you pick it up. Reduce the risk by going straight home with your cake. Tiered wedding cakes should be transported in a box. Cakes need to.

Get a box that is exactly the size of the base of the cake board. This gives you some extra room for moving the cake in and out of the box and prevents your decorations from getting smudged against the side of the box. Here is what i do for long distance deliveries. Speaking of double or triple up on those cake boards.

Once you have the cake in position and everything is fixed to your liking you are all done. As long as you have a good support system you should have no problem stacking your 3 tier wedding cake and transporting it. This stuff is your best friend when you are transporting a wedding cake. Once the cake is delivered you should be the one who takes it out of the box.

For example if you re transporting an 8 in. Pop the cake into the refrigerator for an hour or so on arrival to firm everything back up again. In this yeners cake tips episode i show you how you can at least overcome th. Cake disaster stories are usually because of impact temperature humidity etc.

For transport it is very important that you drive a long sharpened wooden dowel down through the center of the whole cake carefully boring through the cardboard cake circles that support each tier until you reach the base of the cake. I regularly transport wedding cakes over quite long distances in the uk and so am well equipped for long distance deliveries but journey times are doubled or tripled by crossing the channel. I transport each tier on its own either in a cake pan or a cake box. Be sure your cake is not near a floorboard heater or in direct sunlight.

This will keep it from sliding around in the box. This is an aspect that i researched planned and contemplated a great deal before i offered a french wedding cake service from my uk cake studio. And in circumstance where i don t have a choice but to assemble the tiered cake upfront before delivery for whatever reason i always insert a long dowel rod through the center of the stacked cakes for additional support and drive extra slow on the road.