Need An Idea For Cold Cake Transport

[disneygirlatheart]

My dd won her Spanish contest, we made one of the tres leches cakes.

Well, now she has to make one in a week and a half to carry to a competition one hour away on a bus. This cake must stay cold, so I am needing ideas on how to keep it cold for transport. It will be made in one of the 13 x 9 throwaway pans with a flimsy plastic lid, like you get at Walmart.

I was hoping to not spend much money on anything to transport it, because I am not working and my dh just found out he is losing his job, so money is really tight. Any ideas for the least cost and easy way for her to carry on the bus would be great.

 

[ChristmasElf]

Cardboard box. A blue ice. Blue ice comes in different sizes and is sold at Target, Wal mart, etc in the sporting goods section. The blue ice will run anywhere from $1.29-2.99 depending on the size.
Put the blue ice in freezer the day before and place it into the bottom of the box and then place the foil cake pan sitting on top of the frozen blue ice pack.

Blue ice can be used over and over again.

 

[FINFAN]

do you have a large cooler? If so put ice in there(still in the bag so no leaks into the cake pan/drippy) or maybe one of those grocery insulated/ cooler bags that Walmart/Walgreens sells...sort of like a shopping bag size meant for carrying cold groceries home in? Congrats to your DD!

 

[rie'smom]

Dry ice works well. Put it in the box not touching the cake. That's how our local ice cream cake place loads their cakes for travel. Oh and don't touch it directly with your hands because it can cause serious burns.

 

[erincon23]

For ease of carrying, I wouldn't use either a large cooler or a cardboard box -- both can be clumsy. Try a duffle bag, put cardboard in the bottom to stabilize it, put your blue ices in, put your cake pan in, then stuff newspaper around the sides of the cake pan so it doesn't jostle around.

Many years ago, my MIL gave me a casserole dish/cakepan carrier sort of thing -- it's softsided with a flap on the bottom to put either a microwaved hot pad or a flexible blue ice thing, then zips all the way around and has handles on the top. If you can find something like that for cheap, you'd probably have lots of uses for it. I use it all the time -- we have lots of family gatherings where we all bring a dish, and even when I don't have to keep something hot or cold, at least it keeps the food contained and not falling all over the place.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I would go back to Walmart and get one of their insulated "pizza" bags, or go to the supermarket and get one of their insulated shopping bags. Walmart's is, I think, $1.29 and the supermarket's is usually $1.99.

I know you said you didn't want to buy anything, but you can reuse this over and over to carry home groceries that need to be kept cold (or hot, i.e. if you get one of those rotisserie chickens) or any carry-out food.

 

[kwelch10377]

I am pretty sure you can get these cheaper than 4.99

http://www.amazon.com/thermal-insul...1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1298523883&sr=8-1

 

[CrazyDuck]

You definately need dry ice in a big cooler!

 

[disneygirlatheart]

Thanks, those insulated bags are a great idea. I will go and get one of those, should I buy a thing of those ice packs to make sure it stays cold? Or will the bag be sufficient?