<p>My daughter wants to give a birthday cake to someone who will quite possibly need to cycle home with it in a backpack.</p>
<p>I was thinking a pound cake - although d thinks that wouldn’t decorate very well - anyone have any other suggestions?</p>
<p>If you make the cake in one of those disposable metal pans that you can buy at the market and then just leave it in the pan and frost it, it might be okay to make a round or square cake. Maybe it could go in a bag that will hang from the handlebars.</p>
<p>I’ve mailed flourless chocolate cakes to two of my Ds for their 21st birthdays and they arrived okay.</p>
<p>That’s a good idea - I don’t ride a bike so I don’t know how ungainly a cake pan would be.</p>
<p>cupcakes in a cupcake holder. Make enough to spell out “happy birthday” (1 letter each)</p>
<p>Will the cake be kept upright in a backpack???</p>
<p>Well, that’s what I like about the idea of a poundcake - it doesn’t really need to be kept upright.</p>
<p>Any cake in a disposible pan should do. Give them a tub of frosting on the side.</p>
<p>Cupcake in a cup. We saw them somewhere (online? can’t remember) and they were cute. Am guessing you probably cook a shallow sheet cake and use the upside down mason jars to cut out circles of cake which you then layer alternately with frosting, candy, whatever. Mostly, they remind me of ‘Pizza in a Cup’ from Steve Martin’s old movie The Jerk.</p>
<p>Maybe transport the cake unfrosted & frost it at it’s destination?</p>
<p>How far are you traveling? If it’s not far…freeze the cake and have it travel frozen. It will be less “fragile” that way. Defrost and then put the icing on when you get to the destination.</p>
<p>lspf72, I am intrigued by the idea of making a miniature cake, which would enable me to use some sort of tupperware type container as the “cake carrier.”</p>
<p>Thanks for the idea… I’ll let you know how it turns out… now I am pondering indestructible yet tasty frosting…</p>
<p>Editing to add: I just googled cupcake in a cup and discovered the idea is to assemble the cake in a cup… very creative idea, still thinking…</p>
<p>No good ideas to offer, just want to say that what your D/you are planning is very sweet.</p>
<p>Make any cake in a disposable pound cake pan. If your D wants to frost and decorate…do NOT fill the pan to the top. 3/4 may even be too high…depending on the type of cake.</p>
<p>Leave the cake in the pan. The top can be frosted and decorated below the top of the pan. It can be covered, and, as long as it doesn’t completely tip over in the back pack, it should stay decorated.</p>
<p>I just got a text from my daughter “Remember XXX’s cake (not pound cake mom)” so it’s a good thing I have an alternative plan!</p>
<p>Instead of cake make it be a a pan of uncut brownies and use that as the bday cake. It’s different and is tastier anyway and it seems that it’d hold together reasonably well during the transport (maybe).</p>
<p>I ended up making a chocolate sheet cake.</p>
<p>I also bought plastic containers (6-cup bowls).</p>
<p>Using the bottom of the container for size, I cut out two rounds from the sheet cake and made two mini layer cakes.</p>
<p>I used the lid of the plastic container as the cake plate and the container as the cover.</p>
<p>They are very cute! We will see how the birthday girl likes them… and if she has her car today or will indeed somehow have to cycle home with them.</p>