Does anyone know where you can find taller cake boxes? I haven't made a cake yet that I could close the box...

Thanks
Ashley

cake boxes are hard to find and short of having them made to the size you need you may want to not use them all together.
I use cake boards, not the cardboard ones that wilton makes. I but a plywood sorta wood board that they sometimes call sign board. I get it from home improvement stores. I but a sheet of it and can get many out of one. My husband will cut them and round off the edges to they do not hurt anyone. I will cover them in freezer paper, foil, fancy foil or whatever. They are reuseable and I can rely on the very sturdy non breadable board. I use a black marker on the back with my name and such. I use masking tape to hold the paper on. I also have put handles on a few of the boards for easy carring. Of course this does not give you a top but if you really needed a top I would buy the disposable plastic tops from my local food store. A great web site for all things cake is Pfeil and Holing. Great products and service
Best wishes,
Joy

I get empty boxes from the store and cut to height and width that I need, then decorate the outside and have the customer return it along with my board.

jj, how is the house hunting going?

I use moving boxes, cut the front down, slide the cake in and tape it up. If the cake is too tall, I tape the flaps up on the box and cover the top with foil. I usually also line the boxes with foil.
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes

Thanks for all the ideas! I'll have to try those. I just don't like putting a cake in a car when it's not closed up. Don't know why that bothers me so much.

Stephanie -
We have found a few neighborhoods we like. Magnolia Creek, Brittany Lakes and South Shore Lakes. They all have new home builders right now. We are definitely going to put our house up for sale at the beginning of the year and move when school is out or when the house sells... We will probably rent an apt. until we can have the house we want built. Thank you, thank you so much for your help! It helped a lot to have a starting point. Now we just have to try to get our house sold and see how much we can get for it before we know how much we can spend on the new house. Lots to do. A very busy few months ahead and the cake jobs are just pouring in so my husband isn't going to be getting much help from me with the painting, etc. getting the house ready. 5 cakes in the next 3 weeks and we still have family staying with us from New Orleans. It's crazy around here right now.
Thanks again.
Ash

Glad to hear that.

I am planning on paying Houston a visit either Thanksgiving or Christmas, if I can find a good special on plane fare.

In 2003 I was there for Christmas and couldn't believe how cold it was...the day that we left, I swear I have never been that cold before.

Seems like I can't hit the right weather...will never do summer again (to hot), Thanksgiving (chilly), Christmas (cold), Easter (windy).

Glad to hear that your cake business is taking off. This is the first weekend that I only had one small cake to do...she called me Friday night @ 10:30 for a cake that she needed Saturday @ 2 p.m.

I tape the cake box top open as low as I can without touching the cake top. I then use plastic wrap to make a window out of the area that did not get covered. I tape the plastic wrap on, and everything is protected. This also lets people sneak a peak without opening the cake box!

Berta

I do the same as Joy. In all these years, I have never covered the entire cake with anything. No one ever said anything.