Finding the Best Cake Boxes for Your Cake

Are you looking for cake boxes for your cake? Whether it’s for a birthday party, potluck, or other special occasion, cake boxes can be extremely useful for transporting your delicious cakes. They are also a good way to show off your tasty creation (store-bought or not!) to friends, family, and co-workers.

You can get creative with how you transport your cake. Will you have a decorative cake box made of pink cardboard? A square-shaped one? A heart-shaped one? Or are you a member of the minimalist camp for whom a plain white box will suffice?

Either way, cake boxes are great for giving cakes to others as well. When you want to give a cake to a birthday celebrant or a close friend, she can easily take home the cake without worrying about what happens to the cake box. It can simply be thrown away!

In this article, we’re going to talk about different types of cake boxes and their manufacturers. You’ll be able to see a bunch of ways in which you can reliably and stylishly transport your cakes. Then when you’re finished devouring your dessert, you simply toss the cake boxes away!

The best type of cake box will depend on the type of cake you want to put inside. We’ve all seen the cardboard, hinged and flapped cake boxes that you get at your local bakery. When determining which box is right for your cake, you have to consider your cake’s weight, fragility and the occasion, among other things.

For a heavier ice cream cake, you may want to go with reinforced, corrugated cardboard. If you’re transporting a delicate, multi-tiered cake, you may want to look into transporting the cake in multiple cake boxes of varying sizes to fit the tiers. Do you want to be environmentally friendly? If so, try cake boxes made of recyclable and compostable materials. If the cake is for a special occasion, say a wedding, Lcipaper.com (www.lcipaper.com) provides ready-to-assemble, lavishly decorated wedding cake boxes for wedding guests and participants. Finally, if you want to show off a beautifully designed cake, a cake box with a clear plastic window is the way to go. It allows people to see how pretty your dessert is while still protecting your cake from foreign objects getting into it.

You have a lot of options when it comes to buying cake boxes. If you want to buy a large amount for a restaurant or business, you can find wholesale suppliers online. For smaller quantities, you can also go to craft or cooking stores that carry cake supplies like cake molds or decorating kits. Buying cake boxes in bulk will often be much cheaper, although that may not be practical if it’s just for your personal use.

Shopbakersnook.com (http://www.shopbakersnook.com) offers a variety of cake-related products. You can go through their products pages, check prices, and decide what’s right for you depending on your type of cake. Have fun with this; there are a lot of colorful and creative selections!

Each type of cake box has a different cost depending on the material used and intricacy of design. Prices range from $0.25 (for a plain, white cake box) to $4 each (for a colorful, hinged-designed, chlorine-free, recyclable and compostable windowed cake box).

One thing to think about—if you’re buying in bulk for your restaurant or business, make sure you buy a few cake boxes before making the big purchase and put them to the test as far as durability and customer appeal. This could save you a lot of money in the long run!

There are plenty of options for transporting and giving away your cakes. You can have as much fun choosing cake boxes as you did baking the cakes!

Check out this video which features a nicely decorated, ready-to-assemble wedding cake box.