Try corrugated cardboard shipping boxes. They come in lots of different configurations and heights while being lightweight and inexpensive.
For my kid's birthday this year, I made a donut tower cake (4 levels of donuts stacked on a cake pedestal). To transport the tower to the birthday site: wrapped the tower & pedestal with a tall collar of heavy duty aluminum foil, so that foil did not touch the donuts at all. Then I placed the collared tower into a medium-ish shipping box that I padded with clean bath towels. The idea was to keep the cake tower from sliding/shifting around in the box.
Then box was placed in the car on the floor, not on the seats (sudden stops are bad for cake, pets, and just about anything on seats regardless of safety restraints). I wedged the box against the side (in the trunk with pack of bottled water, to keep the box from moving around as I drove. Donut tower arrived at the birthday venue intact (not even a sprinkle out of place) and I didn't have to get an expensive carrier.
Could I have assembled the donut tower at the venue? Yes, but I knew I wasn't going to have time and this worked beautifully.
I can see a few possibilities. • contact caterers and/or food equipment suppliers to see if they have something suitable. • look elsewhere - not kitchen supplies - for a large enough box, no matter its original purpose. • have a carpenter build you a box to measure. • start transporting your cakes with unadorned layers and icing pin separate containers; assemble on site.
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Try corrugated cardboard shipping boxes. They come in lots of different configurations and heights while being lightweight and inexpensive.
For my kid's birthday this year, I made a donut tower cake (4 levels of donuts stacked on a cake pedestal). To transport the tower to the birthday site: wrapped the tower & pedestal with a tall collar of heavy duty aluminum foil, so that foil did not touch the donuts at all. Then I placed the collared tower into a medium-ish shipping box that I padded with clean bath towels. The idea was to keep the cake tower from sliding/shifting around in the box.
Then box was placed in the car on the floor, not on the seats (sudden stops are bad for cake, pets, and just about anything on seats regardless of safety restraints). I wedged the box against the side (in the trunk with pack of bottled water, to keep the box from moving around as I drove. Donut tower arrived at the birthday venue intact (not even a sprinkle out of place) and I didn't have to get an expensive carrier.
Could I have assembled the donut tower at the venue? Yes, but I knew I wasn't going to have time and this worked beautifully.
• contact caterers and/or food equipment suppliers to see if they have something suitable.
• look elsewhere - not kitchen supplies - for a large enough box, no matter its original purpose.
• have a carpenter build you a box to measure.
• start transporting your cakes with unadorned layers and icing pin separate containers; assemble on site.