Happy Birthday Julie!!
I’ve been wanting to try to mail a cake for a while now and finally had a good reason to try! My girlfriend in Seattle (about 200 miles away) had a birthday last weekend, so I figured, she’d be my guinea pig!! – I knew she wouldn’t mind getting a smashed up cake…it’s the thought that counts – right! I made the most compact cake I could think of – my flower pot. However, I used some different flowers this time instead of the roses I had used last time. I had some of the flowers (the white ones) formed so they stood up a bit from the cake. Those are the ones that didn’t do so well. But otherwise, the cake made it almost completly in tact!!!!!! I was so excited to hear that!!! So, here are some before and after pics. Sorry, I got so excited and glued the cake into the container before I had taken pics of it on its own! 
You can see there are a few white petals missing
The flower pot was vanilla cake with chocolate ganache filling (nice and stable for the USPS) and then I used chocolate modeling clay for the exterior of the pot to hold the cake together. I then glued the cake to the fondant covered board with some chocolate and whalllah – a shippable cake! I put the cake into a clear container I had graham cracker cookies in, slapped an address label on top and took it to the post office. Yes, you can mail things in clear containers! I figured that was the only hope of the cake making it…if they could see it WAS fragile and WAS a cake!! And it worked beautifully!! It was funny because when I put it up on the counter to mail, the guy picked it up, turned it over on it’s side, then right side up again (even though I had stickers all over it say “Don’t tip!”), then looked at me and said, “I don’t think this is gonna make it!” HA – he didn’t have faith in his own company! Although stressful, I might try doing it again. Next time I might make the flowers a bit more compact like the blue ones so nothing is sticking out.
All in all a fun experiement!!! Thanks for looking!
You can see there are a few white petals missing 
The flower pot was vanilla cake with chocolate ganache filling (nice and stable for the USPS) and then I used chocolate modeling clay for the exterior of the pot to hold the cake together. I then glued the cake to the fondant covered board with some chocolate and whalllah – a shippable cake! I put the cake into a clear container I had graham cracker cookies in, slapped an address label on top and took it to the post office. Yes, you can mail things in clear containers! I figured that was the only hope of the cake making it…if they could see it WAS fragile and WAS a cake!! And it worked beautifully!! It was funny because when I put it up on the counter to mail, the guy picked it up, turned it over on it’s side, then right side up again (even though I had stickers all over it say “Don’t tip!”), then looked at me and said, “I don’t think this is gonna make it!” HA – he didn’t have faith in his own company! Although stressful, I might try doing it again. Next time I might make the flowers a bit more compact like the blue ones so nothing is sticking out. All in all a fun experiement!!! Thanks for looking!
I can’t believe the guy tipped it … or that it stayed put! Cute cake. The boys, as usual, came in to check it out.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? Dude, you ROCK!! I have never heard of such a thing! What a fun surprise!!! You are such a good friend!!
I’ll be your guinea pig.. ME NEXT! :0) Beautiful cakes!!