Transporting and serving giant cupcake questions

NerdBride_D&D

I am on the giant cupcake bandwagon. I saw a site that showed how to make a candy "wrapper" for the bottom and it said to make some 4'' cakes instead of baking the bottom if you make the wrapper. Ok, that will look cute. But how do I transport this thing to his party, and how do I serve it if the bottom is a giant candy shell with little cakes, and the top is all frosted? Just serve the top maybe? Just let him smash the hell out of this one and serve everyone else another cake? Why do I foresee smushed cake all over my car whenever I think about taking his cake anywhere?

If you are doing the giant cupcake, what are your plans for transporting and serving?

JulyFiveBride

I'm not doing the giant cupcake, but DD's party is tomorrow and I brought her cakes (2 decorated 8" rounds) to the ILs a couple hours ago. I got cake boxes to transport them in and a cardboard cake board to get them in and out of the boxes. They have (a crappy selection of) them at the party city on mill plain/chaklov (next to Trader Joe's) or the JoAnn's on 117th and fourth plain. They may even have them at walmart, I made an emergency run a few nights ago for fabric glue and noticed they sell Wilton stuff there. The boxes worked really well. I was paranoid the whole drive, but both cakes made it safely. Or there are those plastic cake caddy things. But I'm not sure if those would be tall enough. GL!

funchicken

I'm not sure I understand how the "candy wrapper" part works, but I'd just frost it when I got to wherever the party was.  That way the top wouldn't get messed up.

mg103177

to transport the cupcake I left it in the pan and frosted it, on location.  As for cutting it.  Cut it in half from top to bottom so that everyone gets part of the top and part of the bottom, then lay it flat, so it looks like to cupcakes on your plate and cut along the ridges of the cupcake bottom.  It is such a thick cake, everyone only needs a sliver and it was plenty.  Good luck