Progressive International Collapsible Cupcake and Cake Carrier

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• Innovative cake/cupcake carrier collapses to 1/2 its original height for storage and saving space in the dishwasher
• Tiered cupcake trays hold up to 24 cupcakes with finger recesses for easy removal
• Trays can be removed to accomodate layered round and square cakes
• Collapsible lid features a carrying handle for easy transport; secured to the base with attached clips
• Measures 16 inches in diameter and 5 inches high when collapsed; dishwasher safe

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16.1 x 16.1 x 6 inches ; 4.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B002C741M2
• Item model number: BCC-1
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (249 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,519 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #5 in Kitchen & Dining > Bakeware > Cake Stands & Carriers
  • #35 in Kitchen & Dining > Tabletop > Serveware

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

If you love making and sharing cakes and cupcakes, the Collapsible Cupcake and Cake Carrier from Progressive International makes it easy to transport your creations to gatherings. And when the party's over, the carrier collapses to 1/2 of its original height to help save space while stored. It features two levels with removable cupcake trays that hold up to 24 cupcakes. The trays collapse together for storage and they feature finger recesses for easy removal of cupcakes. The trays can be removed in order to transport both round and square cakes, and the base has a patterned slicing guide to help make slicing easier and more precise. The collapsible lid features a carrying handle for easy transport and can be secured to the base with attached clips. The carrier measures 16 inches in diameter and 5 inches tall when collapsed (10 inches tall when in carrier mode). Dishwasher safe.

Progressive's innovative cupcake and cake carrier loaded for fun.

It collapses to half its height for easy storage.

About Progressive International
Progressive International understands that more than a workspace, the contemporary kitchen is the heart of the home where we connect with family and friends. Its in-house designers spend hours in the kitchen coming up with ways to improve on a variety of traditional tasks and tools. Like all good inventors, it all start with imagination and then switches to the practical. Taking ideas from all kinds of places--including suggestions from customers about what they would like to have in their kitchens--the designers tinker, adjust, and think outside the box until they come up with newer and better ways to make cooking more fun, interesting, and efficient. Progressive International has been in the kitchenware business for over thirty years, and its products are sold in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, and other international markets.

Product Description

Progressive International is your source for the widest range of functional, inventive, and fun kitchen tools and great ideas put into practice. Our in-house designers spend hours in the kitchen coming up with ways to improve on a variety of traditional tasks and tools. Established in 1973, our commitment to quality and service allows us to offer a broad selection of quality kitchenware and other household products. The Progressive International collapsible cupcake carrier has a revolutionary design where it collapses to 1/2 of its original height, saving space in storage. Tiered cupcake trays hold up to 24 cupcakes, collapse together for easy storage and feature finger recesses for easy removal of cupcakes. Remove the cupcake trays to accomodate layered-round cakes and square cakes. The collapsible lid features a carrying handle for easy transport and can be secured to the base with attached clips. The base features a patterned slicing guide which makes slicing easier and more precise. Measures 16 inches in diameter and 5 inches high in the collapsed position. Dishwasher safe.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

243 of 245 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Space saving, holds cupcakes, amazing! November 8, 2009

By Jenna Riane

I bought this a few weeks ago because I'm always making cupcakes and never have an easy way to bring them anywhere. Most cupcake holders hold 12 cupcakes or crush the frosting. The other problem is that most holders take up so much room when you need to store them that it's not worth having them in the first place. This holds 24 cupcakes and has enough headroom to prevent frosting mishaps. It also has an ingenious collapsible design to allow it to take up less than half its original height. I'll break down the positives and negatives:

POSITIVES:

- Collapsible, space-saving design
- Holds 12-24 cupcakes - you choose! Use one tray for 12, 2 trays for 24.
- Included cupcake trays are nice to look at, easy to clean, and have finger-holes to allow easier removal of individual cupcakes
- Cupcakes have enough headroom on both levels for mounds of frosting or decorations
- Use it with cake instead of cupcakes if you want by just removing the trays altogether.

NEGATIVES:

- The included cupcake trays don't interlock with the base in any way. They actually slide around quite a bit until you put the cover on. This creates a problem for loading and for unloading. If they had made a small groove that the tray could have sat in or a way to lock them in place without the cover, it would have increased the stability of the trays for loading and unloading. NOTE: They don't move when you put the lid on, only with the lid off!
- I doubt the handle is going to be strong enough for holding heavy cakes. I don't honestly expect to hold a cake caddy by the handle, though - some cakes can weigh a lot and I'm not going to trust a handle with my time-consuming precious baked masterpiece. I always carry from the bottom.... Still, the handle has the very important job on this cake caddy of being able to expand the thing from collapsed to full.
- Requires a fair amount of strength to uncollapse.
- Kind of ugly. The red band is really not a nice color. I would have preferred it in white. It really goes with nothing - it's not Christmas red, it's more of a maroon, but even then, it's not REALLY maroon, either. It's just not pretty and it looks dated now, it's going to look even more dated in a few more years.
- Cupcakes could flip sideways/over if you're not careful. I had no mishaps bringing cupcakes where they needed to go because I was very careful, but bringing the cupcakes home I was less careful and some of the leftovers flipped on their sides.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this. The trays are made of high-quality plastic that doesn't stain (black food coloring sat on it for 7 days and came right off without even any soap). The locks feel secure. The space-saving design sets it apart from every other cake caddy on the market. And it can hold 24 cupcakes without much trouble. Even though it's ugly and the trays slide around initially, I think it's a pretty good product. Read more ›

105 of 108 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Clever design, cheap manufacture. November 23, 2009

By F. Webb

If you buy this carrier, replace the handle even if you don't plan to carry it by the handle. The provided handle is a tragic accident waiting to happen. Just make sure that the replacement handle is designed so it wont slide down into the carrier and drape in your frosting.

The carrier is cleverly designed, but it's cheaply made. The raised cupcake tray stands on slightly wobbly stilts, attached to the lower cupcake tray. The lower cupcake tray doesn't actually attach to the base. As a another commenter pointed out, the situation is stabilized by the lid being in place, so it shouldn't be a problem if you're careful while loading it up.

The collapsing action is okay. The red rubber in the middle folds down so the carrier is only half height for storage, but it's firm enough that it shouldn't accidentally fold down and crush your baked goods, though you should not try to rest anything on top of the carrier. It would have been better if there were stabilizers to keep this from being an issue, but it's a small risk. (I haven't been using it long enough to know how much the rubber will soften with use.)

The only terrible feature for me was the one that left me standing in my driveway mourning ruined cupcakes when the cheap handle broke the first time I used it. It wasn't even full. There's really no excuse for this. The carrier is designed to be carried by the handle. With a replacement handle, the carrier is a good one. If not for the lousy handle, the carrier would have been worth another star or even two, but as it is, it is a product that has ruined many people's days and will ruin many more.

I probably wont buy any more products from Progressive. I wont trust that they don't have any other vital and stupid flaws.

72 of 84 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth buying September 29, 2009

By L. Taylor

I bought this for a cake decorating class I was taking. I used it twice and when I was carrying my beautifully decorated cake out of class the second night the carrier handle broke and the cake dropped to the floor. If I would have known the handle was made so badly I wouldn't have bought this item. Don't waste your money!

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars First use a disaster August 8, 2010

By Lily

So I read all the reviews before I purchased this item. I was so happy to find a carrier that would allow for tall frosting. I decided, after reading the reviews, to not use the handle. I carried from the bottom which caused one of the flimsy locks to disengage and the bottom to fall off. I lost 24 ornate cupcakes destined for a birthday party. I am so angry that I bothered. I had to run to a very expensive cupcake store to buy overpriced and not fresh replacements. This sucker is going back!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome carrier for highly decorated cakes/cupcakes March 20, 2010

By confectioncreator

First off I DO agree that the handle was in retrospect rather cheap as it broke for me too... BUT not until I had transported at least 3 heavy fully decorated cakes and several times with cupcakes- I fully agree with many here that mentioned that you would (or should) NEVER rely on the handle- a plastic one at that- to transport something that you spent SO much time and love on and that is basically irreplaceable unless you SOMEhow have the time to start alll over again :) I am SO sorry for those of you who experienced such a nightmare! But I have always tried to learn a valuble lesson from such disasters! This is a very very heavy duty- and heavy carrier so the handle clearly wouldn't be enough to hold it when full of something so heavy and dense as cakes/cupcakes....I always (thankfully) held it by the bottom and used the handle to help hold it upright and steady. My handle DID however break though when my husband used it to pull out the top from the collapsed state. I say above that I wish I had read these reviews to know this would certainly happen so we could have 'babied' it for a bit longer. He assures me we can fix it as you do need something to pull it out from the collapsed position.
HOWEVER, this is most certainly better than any other carrier I have tried myself and I've had several- they just don't carry so many cupcakes or ones that have piles of beautifully decorated cupcakes without compressing and messing up all your work! The stands are great for display as well if it's not a particularly fancy event- if so I would transfer them to a tree etc...but quite nice for taking to your office etc.- can just take the top off and they are beautifully ready for people to take them out one by one without messing up the others due to the finger cutouts that others mentioned....... and Yes a cake WILL slide around and ruin your work as well as cardboard certainly slides on plastic but I have found this to be a concern on any carrier and I just cut out a piece of rug backing or the same design of shelf liner or the like. It works perfect and you don't see it!!
All in all I give this at least 4 stars and the only reason it's not five is because for five stars I expect shear perfection :)
Hope this helps!!
ps- not sure why one person said it was ugly? I don't really care what the cover looks like to begin with but I will say that I have actually gotten several compliments on it! :) Read more ›