Transporting A Wedding Cake

Wedding cakes are large and extravagant.

Transporting a wedding cake.

Sometimes cakes are in tiers or stacks and can fall out during transportation. With the sign other drivers didn t seem to mind her driving slowly with her flashers on that said you should always bring a pastry bag with you filled with back ups of buttercream or extra. A few thoughts about real flowers on your wedding cake. Here is what i do for long distance deliveries.

For example if you re transporting an 8 in. Tiered wedding cakes should be transported in a box. No matter how experienced or for how long any professional or hobby baker has been baking wedding cakes the transporting of a decadent and intricately designed and extremely carefully made wedding cake will always be nerve wrecking i d be lying if i said even after 7 years of wedding cake making we didn t get nervous about sending our precious multi tiered cake cargo off on its way to its. Wedding cake on board and it helped a lot.

Transporting a wedding cake or any tiered cake from your safe home where you baked it to the site where it will be cut and enjoyed is scary. I always only assemble tall tiered cakes at the wedding hall or event venue. If you ve made or are planning to make tall tiered cakes you would be all too familiar with the nervous churning in ya gut prior to transporting your cake to the venue. After the cake is completed the task of delivering it in the same condition is a big step.

How to transport a wedding cake safely. My tips on how to transport a tiered cake. But if your wedding cake is very big and heavy you should place an additional base. 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.

They even seem delicate at times. You want to use a cake board that measures at least 2 in. This will keep it from sliding around in the box. Bigger than your cake.

Dédé used to post a sign in her car window when she was transporting wedding cakes. Get a box that is exactly the size of the base of the cake board. Usually having a base of three layers of cardboard is adequate support. It can even make the caterers a little worried.

As long as you have a good support system you should have no problem stacking your 3 tier wedding cake and transporting it. The base of the wedding cake should be able to support the weight of the cake. It is ok to transport a two or three tier assembled cakes but taller cakes are best assembled at the event venue. I transport each tier on its own either in a cake pan or a cake box.

But you can do it and you should be proud of yourself.