Help me get this cake to a party in one piece!

[JustAMiddleAgedDirtBagBaby]

I'm making a cake for a family birthday party.

Party is on the Saturday, I am travelling down the Friday night after work - two hours drive, twisty and mountainous in places.

Should I:

1. Make and freeze cakes, take cakes and icing ingredients to party venue (MIL's house), assemble and ice on the Saturday morning. (The hitch here may well be that I have never seen MIL's freezer with an atom of space in it, certainly not enough for three layers of cake, so cake will be thawed by Saturday when I'm icing it)

1. Make cakes. Crumb coat, fill, assemble and freeze, then proceed as above, doing final icing on Saturday. (Hitch above now even more significant as cake will be one large unit at this point! )

1. As 2 but crumb coat each layer without filling or assembling, freeze and then as above

1. Something else I haven't thought of.

This is the recipe: https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/moist-vanilla-layer-cake/

Are you traveling alone or will you have a passenger who can be trusted to hold it safely?

Hm. I'll probably be the passenger actually.

😄 I have done many journeys over the years with a pudding of some sort cradled on my lap in the passenger seat. Both sides of our family live on the other side of the Pennines so, at family get togethers, I would usually be taking a pudding of some sort.

I bet you'll be fine. 🎂

Make cake assemble but don't ice. Place it in footwell of car.