Author: Cassie Stevens
I love how a good idea can consume me and keep me busy for days. I am a very creative, artsy kind of person and lately my outlet has been cakes. I am learning how to use all my new fondant tools, so practice makes perfect. This cake I wanted to try fondant flowers on for size. They say you are your own worst critic, and I can see all the flaws and how it could be better but these are the first three flowers I have ever made and they were cake worthy, so I had to use them.
Now, I know the petals still look a little thick, but I’ll get there. I think I did pretty good! 🙂
This is a red velvet cake on top and a chocolate devils food cake on the bottom with a marshmallow fondant shell and buttercream icing. Very delicious! So naturally I posted it up on my Facebook page to show it off. My Aunt seen it and wanted to send a cake just like it to her step-daughter Tiffany who has a Valentines Birthday (how cool is that).
I gratefully accepted the opportunity and looked forward to learning how I would ship a cake Via mail through a few states without ruining my work. So I made another cake just like it (a little different).
They both were very fun to make. This one went very fast though (because I knew what I was doing already).
So I boxed it up in a cake box, then reinforced it the best I could so it wouldn’t move.
The cake board was hot glued in place in the box and the cake itself was stuck with icing onto the cake board. Then this box was closed up and placed inside of another box and cushioned with about a billion tied up plastic shopping bags to cushion the box inside.
There was a note:
Awww……how nice!
I loved it simple and perfect.
I shipped the cake 2 day USPS as fragile and it arrived in perfect condition she said and of course she loved it. Tiffany told my Aunt that she was throwing out all the other cakes she got for her birthday and keeping this one. It was the best! YAY! Sucess ❤ it!
Nailed it! Now, I have some experience shipping cakes. I can’t wait to open my bakery!
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