Display Cakes for off site locations
So as part of the upcoming Americas cake and sugarcraft fair and also living so close to Orlando where the show is going to be held I was asked if I would like to be one of the people to put a display cake in a close by restaurant to the convention center where the show is being held. I thought it was a fabulous idea for organizers to try and get the hype going. So we were given a restaurant and each restaurant wanted a cake designed around there restaurant as much as possible. So I had a few pics sent to me and I had pretty much freedom of design from there.Now I have never done a display cake for another location other than my own space before so once again I am writing this as a learning experience, or a maybe more of a "what not to do" piece,lol....
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So cake done, put it in the back of the car, not boxed ( mistake #1), as we got up the road a bit it started to rain, so I stop and pick up the only umbrella available... now using the word umbrella Is a stretch , my undies were bigger than that thing, but they were not an option, hehehehe. We get to the venue almost 2 hours away, and there is no parking, we drive until we find a side alley to temporarily park, still quite a ways away from restaurant. Get out and start walking and of course it starts raining again and the kids try to help with the pitiful umbrella but without success, Get to venue and put my cake in place, which was on the bar which I knew about, but then come to find out that the huge window it is sitting in front of is a serving window for drinks to the outside and that they leave it open most of the time ( mistake #2). So great, my cake will literally be exposed to all the hot humid Florida tempreatures, hell it might as well have been sitting outside Are you kidding me, it is Florida people ,we don't sit cakes in those conditions if they had told me anything about this fact I would have sealed it. The humidity was so intense that just from the walk from the car to the restaurant had made some of my wafer paper prints(mistake #3) start to peel off the cake.
So I told them I would be back next week with a full repair kit and new prints done on real edible paper along with a fake flower and something to seal it with. Within 2 days I was contacted to say the flower had already sagged off the cake ( mistake # 4) and more of the prints were coming off. That flower had sat in my house for over 7 months and made of gum paste but 2 days in that restaurants conditions and it was done and so was my cake apparently. So off I go next week with kit ready to fix it...well what a joke, the cake was a total disaster when I arrived, all frames around the pics are curled up or fallen of, the top tier a total mess where people had touched it and the humidity had made the color transfer to their fingers which then they put back on the cake and the cake board that was sealed also a total mess. Needless to say that cake was going home with me.
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So here are my tips.... make sure you know exactly where your cake is going to be placed at location and the amount of room they are giving your cake. Check to see if there will be a maintained temperature at all times. Make sure it will be placed in a safe location if possible. Use a box you never know what conditions will be when you get there. Seal all display cakes no matter what, including sugar flowers. If sugar flowers really aren't necessary use fake ones, just make sure you can create them in sugar. Know if there is parking at venue that is close by. So pretty much a lot of the same things you would do for a wedding cake, don't get complacent just because it is a display cake, there are certain things even they cant withstand.
I am also showing you my dearest friends cake, Tammy Mashburn who also had her cake in a different restaurant, her original restaurant would not even accept her cake as her cake was bigger than the space they had allocated for it ( mistake #5) so we found another restaurant last minute, so another tip know the size space you have to work with. The restaurant would not even allow her cake to be removed even though it now looks like this because of no temperature control at night. So I know this was a long post but I hope this was helpful...even if you learned one small tip I am happy.
Big Hugs, Shags xoxoxo
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CakeyCake
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