Hi, I have been successfully shipping birthday cakes to my daughter since she went to college in 1980. First, make the cake in a loaf pan, frost as usual, place on a cake board, then wrap in wax paper (her suggestion). Place the cake in a shoe box, then in a medium size flat rate box, pad bottom, sides and top. Mail away. The wax paper is easier to scrape the frosting from and put back on the cake when necessary according to the recipient, I continue to do this every spring as she lives far away.

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