Unless you can keep the box in your hands and walk carefully to your party, you’ll need something else to get your secure baked goods to the destination. Choosing the right container is only half the battle If you’re willing to spend a little more, you could invest in a basket that holds up to two pies. Broussard says her favorite pie carrier is Àplat’s reusable canvas tote, which has a zero-waste design, in addition to being “cute and stylish.” The wooden containers by Pie Box come in different shapes and sizes to accommodate cakes, pies, and cookies (and are recommended by Molly Yeh, host of Girl Meets Farm). If you’re trying to reduce your plastic and disposables usage, consider wood or canvas carriers. “And you don’t want too much of a gap in there, because then stuff will fly everywhere.” Consider eco-friendly options “You want the box or whatever you’re using to be tight enough to where stuff doesn’t slide around,” she says. She also plates cookies and covers them tightly with plastic wrap or packs them in reusable plastic storage containers. Jeffra typically packs smaller baked goods in a parchment paper-lined tin that she can leave with the host. While it’s not possible for every situation, moving the cake unfrosted means you can use paper towels or a tea towel as a buffer inside the carrier. To further avoid frosting damage, Jeffra will sometimes decorate the cake upon arrival at a location. Otherwise, the cardboard and the cake might shift, which puts the icing at risk. If you’ve frosted your cake atop a cardboard round, Jeffra suggests placing a damp paper towel on the base of the cake carrier to create some traction. “If you have a box that is the right diameter, you can cut it down to a more manageable height using scissors or a utility knife, and then cover the open top with foil,” she says.īut how you secure the cake inside the carrier is probably more important than which carrier you use. In a pinch, Jeffra has also used cardboard boxes, modified to fit the cake. This one, available on Amazon, also includes removable inserts for two rows of cupcakes. Secure cakes in a collapsible carrierĭiana Jeffra, a food stylist based in Virginia, uses a collapsible carrier for cakes. If you’re looking for something reusable, but still under $10, consider the no-frills pie keeper from the Container Store. “ in most 10 x 10 grocery tote bags, and the cardboard construction provides a sturdiness that allows me to stack the boxes as well,” she says. Maya-Camille Broussard, the founder of Chicago-based Justice of the Pies, uses pizza boxes for pies and tarts. “If you need to move them around and drive them in a car, you can put them right in your trunk, or into a bag, and not worry that there’s going to be a problem, because they’re securely set up well in that box,” he says. Levin suggests packing pies in cardboard pastry boxes, which come in a variety of sizes, including options for cakes.
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Levin, a 2015 Eater Young Gun, also runs a Thanksgiving pop-up bakery, which means he thinks a lot about how to package pies to ensure his customers open the box to find a pie that’s perfectly ready to be reheated, without any mess. “I think the reality is that good packaging and taking care when you’re transporting things is really important,” says Alex Levin, the executive pastry chef at Schlow Restaurant Group in Washington, DC. If you want the whole package to look good, consider these tips, but if keeping your hard work intact is all that matters, here’s what to get. To ease those concerns, we’ve rounded up some bags, carriers, and containers endorsed by pros who cook and carry baked goods all the time. Tucking your homemade sweets into tote bags and wondering if they’ll survive the subway (or stop-and-go traffic) can make a person wonder why they signed up to bring anything to the holiday office party in the first place.
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