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Default Shipping Frosted Cakes

> D.Currie makes some good points. You might want to approach your
> favorite restaurant or bakery and see if they would buy them from you.
>Or, donate them to a homeless shelter, orphanage, school, or some other
>charitable organization and take a write-off.


I already donate food and other goods. I don't throw out leftover
materials or extra items, they go to the local Boy's and Girl's Club or
shelters etc. However, I am down about $400 on this batch. If I want to
give a $400 donation to a local charity I'll just do it, regardless of
having extra cakes in storage. In December I provided free pastries for 3
charity events, and that's plenty for now. I need to recoup some dough and
I don't need another write-off.

I'd really like to figure out a way sell them (and if they go then I'll have
system to sell them online). I am not concerned about having it arrive
frozen. I have a good source for cheap ($2-3) insulated shippers, but I am
interested in knowing if anyone has shipped iced cakes. My shipping cost
can be around $10, but that depends on the method I have to use to protect
them.

A couple of local restaurants use our carrot cakes, but they don't buy them
in this size. I have 6" and 8" rounds, not what these folks want. Also,
one of the restaurants buys crappy cakes at BJs (wholesale club) for maybe
$1 a slice and sells them as desserts for $5.95; they buy our cakes for
themselves and for catered events.

And, yes, they are world-class! All natural, no preservatives or fillers,
dense and rich and heavy. But still can go Priority mail for $7.70, so
shipping won't be bad at all. Freezing and thawing don't impact the
quality (too much oil in there to be ruined). My only problem is mailing
them once they're iced. Even if they're frozen there would be some thaw
during transport, so I have to keep the walls away from the surface.

Thanks for the suggestions, though.
--Pat