Do You All Deliver Your Tiered Cakes In Suvs?
Decorating By vgcea Updated 1 Jun 2014 , 8:34am by 810whitechoc
I agree with AZCouture, the element is great for deliveries. Seats fold up the side not laying down flat. Lots of room for more than one cake delivery. But before that I've taken lots of cakes in back seats always using the towel method. In fact I still use towels as non skid mats
Wow this is an awesome idea! Your hubby better patton that quick! 
AI'll ask him to draw out the plans & list if materials. The dimensions will be different for each car.
JSK, I said the same thing! I told him Lots of bakers would want one. He's not interested. He said its so simple anyone can do it. It doesn't even take no tools (good thing since we dot have them). He said he'd rather be useful & share the plans with everyone. Love him!
AThanks delicius desserts for the picture, you husband is a keeper :-)
Wow, how lovely is your husband!! Looking forward to seeing the plans and list of materials so I can get my partner to make me one!
I'll ask him to draw out the plans & list if materials. The dimensions will be different for each car.
JSK, I said the same thing! I told him Lots of bakers would want one. He's not interested. He said its so simple anyone can do it. It doesn't even take no tools (good thing since we dot have them). He said he'd rather be useful & share the plans with everyone. Love him!
I agree...a lot of men wouldn't go through that trouble. In fact my dad frowned when he found out my mama and I were learning to decorate cakes together.
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I'll ask him to draw out the plans & list if materials. The dimensions will be different for each car.
JSK, I said the same thing! I told him Lots of bakers would want one. He's not interested. He said its so simple anyone can do it. It doesn't even take no tools (good thing since we dot have them). He said he'd rather be useful & share the plans with everyone. Love him!
Awww, he's a gem! I haven't seen that Reese Witherspoon movie. I'll see if I can find it.
Okay I ended up having to get a frozen pizza for my dad's birthday as well so here's what I did. The pizza was put in an insulated bag. My cakes were put in two cake carriers, with a piece of shelf liner between the cake boards and the bottom of the carriers. The cargo area of my PT Cruiser was lined with shelf liner as well. I placed the cake carriers in the cargo area with the insulated bag between them to act as a cushion. I turned my AC on as my thermometer was saying it was 79 degrees and the weatherman said it would be humid (welcome to summer in the Deep South!) and started out on the forty minute drive to my parents' house. No problem once I hit the interstate but then I had to take AR 365 and hit some hilly terrain and when I opened the rear gate...THE CAKES WERE RIGHT WHERE I LEFT THEM!!! 
DeliciousDesserts what a great idea, do you place your tiers in a box and then on the shelf ?
I take my cakes, stacked up to 4 tiers in the trunk of my honda accord. I do use bath towels to stop the sliding.
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DeliciousDesserts what a great idea, do you place your tiers in a box and then on the shelf ?
I take my cakes, stacked up to 4 tiers in the trunk of my honda accord. I do use bath towels to stop the sliding.
My cakes are typically HEAVY. Seriously, they are very heavy. 3 tiers or less, I stack and put on that front seat space. It's sturdy & wonderful. Some 4 tiers I can put in the front.
Anything over 4 tiers or really heavy, I assemble on site. In that case, the bottom tier is stacked on the stand and placed in the back alongside the other boxed tiers. The top tier or anything that makes me particularly nervous rides up front next to me.
No SUV here so when I showed your shelf picture to my talented hubby he built me one! I have a 3 tiered grooms cake to deliver about 150 miles away in 2 weeks so it will get a good test. I call it my cake car seat. Lol
Thanks for posting the picture and for the awesome idea!
SUVs are not the norm here by any means, I drive a ford focus estate, the suspension is particularly springy which is good for impact support! And the boot is massive before the seats go down, the seats only really go down for wedding fayres and markets.
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I have the answer!!
I have a Nissan Altima. My husband built a "shelf". He also built shelves for his car now that we have the baby. It's flat board covered with non skid. It has tiny feet that go on the seat & foldable legs that reach the floorboard. It's perfect!
This is brilliant - I may find someone to build one of these for me. Thanks for posting that photo.
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I haven't tried it yet but I drive a little PT Cruiser. I have heard of one bakery-a mother/daughter team-that delivers their cakes in their PT Cruiser so I know it CAN be done. I know some of you are probably thinking, "Yeah right-that's a car." Not according to the dealers and the insurance agencies-it is, in fact (because of the shape), an SUV.
I have a convertible PT Cruiser and can easily put cakes up to 3 tiers on the floorboard passenger side. Today I could have set the 4 tier cake I delivered in that space, but I don't believe I'd have been able to pick it back up from so low.
For some reason PT Cruisers have a lot of space on the floorboard and I'm spoiled. I used my daughters Honda to deliver the 4 tier cake and I hate not being able to see the cake as I drive when it's in the back like that. Nothing bad ever happens, but it's so comforting being able to glance at the cake and see it's doing fine.
I wish I had a regular PT Cruiser - lots of room in the back. The convertible was so cute...We love PT Cruisers in my family. My other daughter had an insanely yellow gold Dream Cruiser that got totaled when her friend drove it. Broke her heart - that car was irreplaceable (low mileage). She saved part of it from the wreckage and had a clock made from it. (friend wasn't injured).
it is a brilliant design--and so sweet/great of hubby to make this for you--
in my world i just lay a roll of paper towels on the seat topped with a half sheet pan and i'm there plus i retain all the floor board footprint for more falderal--same thing works for me for the back seat but i use full sheet pans--i can deliver many tier cakes at one time in my 4-door saturn sedan--
putting cakes and things in the trunk is no problem because they are shielded from the sun and i can fold part or all of the seat down if i want some cooling to reach back there but all my cakes are climate controlled throughout delivery anyhow in corrugated cardboard boxes--sometimes with ice packs inside--
and paper towels and sheet pans are easier to store--not as heavy to maneuver--
and this is how clients can level their seat for a pick up too--paper towels or a coke can even and just set the box on it--viola--sometimes i just dig around in their car and find an old jacket or a coke can, coupla books and it fills the seat enough to level the cake during transport--
my two cents
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