Personalized Edible Cake

What food (preferably baked goods) ship best during the summertime?

A really good friend of mine has a birthday coming up and I wanted to send something special, homemade, and edible! I live in CA and it’s roughly 1900 miles where I am sending the package.

I came across the cake pop idea and wanted to make them myself and send them but I noticed many of the cake pop businesses purposely don’t ship in the summer because of the heat.

I know that it’s best to avoid icing and chocolate because they melt easily but I’m looking for a way to personalize the food since it’s for a birthday and all.

Any ideas would be really helpful; I’ve been researching for hours already, Thanks!

Bar cookies are better than drop cookies as far as keeping together in the mail. The gooey stuff "holds together" better too, if packed tight. So lemon bars would be about the best I can think of. There are lots of recipes for lemon bars. Or a banana bread or something similar, wrapped very carefully, could be shipped ok. Also cupcakes that aren't all the way up to the top of the cupcake paper, again if packed fairly tightly, might survive. For a bar cookie that's different, check out this gumdrop one:

http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmas/gumbars.htm

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