Can I take a homemade cake on board?
Sep 13th, 2005, 11:44 AM
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Can I take a homemade cake on board?
I will be flying from Toronto to Tampa this weekend and I want to bake a cake and take it in my carry on so I can surprise my boyfriend on his birthday. My concern isn't whether it will travel well (I'm going to freeze the layers and ice it there) but whether there will be any problem getting it through security. Your thoughts?
Sep 13th, 2005, 11:56 AM
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kireland, I wouldn't freeze the layers, then wrap them ... you will have a soggy mess! Just bake them at the last minute and cool, then wrap well ... it should be fine. Someone in my family just took banana bread, wrapped in Saran wrap, all the way to China. No problem, nobody objected. They took it in their carry-on. Good luck ... hope an agent doesn't decide to eat your cake! 
Sep 13th, 2005, 12:12 PM
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I travel with food often....it's no problem. Just don't overwrap the cake just in case they want to take a look. Usually security is great about being careful...just ask them not to turn it sideways when it goes through the x-ray machine.
Sep 13th, 2005, 12:22 PM
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My mother got a free frozen Butterball turkey from her local supermarket & took it on her flight from from NJ to Minneapolis...it was for a Thanksgiving Dinner.
She carried it on the flight and had no problems at all.
She carried it on the flight and had no problems at all.
Sep 13th, 2005, 01:17 PM
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Thanks to everyone for the quick replies. It's funny - I was actually thinking that someone in security might want to tear it apart to make sure there was nothing sharp hidden inside (I guess my mind is a bit warped like Patrick's), but I suppose that's what the x-ray machine is for!
I'm going to go for it an hope it arrives in one piece. Although I guess icing goes along way in smoothing out the bumps! I'm also hoping to ask the airline attendent to deliver a drink from a secret birthday admirer - but given how busy (and hence cranky) they can be this might be the more difficult task.
Thanks again everyone!
I'm going to go for it an hope it arrives in one piece. Although I guess icing goes along way in smoothing out the bumps! I'm also hoping to ask the airline attendent to deliver a drink from a secret birthday admirer - but given how busy (and hence cranky) they can be this might be the more difficult task.
Thanks again everyone!
Sep 13th, 2005, 02:53 PM
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Just a curiosity question for Bonniebroad - was there a particular reason your family member took banana bread to China? My grandmother did that the several times she traveled there and I always wondered why that but never asked.
Sep 13th, 2005, 03:33 PM
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kireland, I had this same question a year ago when I went to London to visit my daughter who was in school there. I actually baked two pound cakes (one for my daughter and one for friends we were staying with) and wrapped them with plastic wrap and then put them each in a bakery box. I carried them on in a shopping bag and told the security screeners what they were.
Unless you bake like my sister-in-law, the x-ray machine will readily show what it is.
I received only pleasant comments from the screeners and a lot of teasing about confiscation and testing.
Go for it.
Unless you bake like my sister-in-law, the x-ray machine will readily show what it is.
I received only pleasant comments from the screeners and a lot of teasing about confiscation and testing.
Go for it.
Sep 13th, 2005, 04:18 PM
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Just for you, cmcfong!
HAWAIIAN BANANA BREAD:
3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 and 1/4 cups chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups mashed ripe bananas
1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine first 5 ingredients; stir in nuts. Combine remaining ingredients; add to flour mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.
Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8-1/2 by 4-1/2 by 3-inch loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and let cool on wire racks.
HAWAIIAN BANANA BREAD:
3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 and 1/4 cups chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups mashed ripe bananas
1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine first 5 ingredients; stir in nuts. Combine remaining ingredients; add to flour mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.
Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8-1/2 by 4-1/2 by 3-inch loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and let cool on wire racks.
