I was just looking at the wilton cake serving chart. Will an 8" double layer square cake really provide enough for 32? I need something to feed 16 and was thinking the 8" would be too small. Any suggestions?

You can cut 32 1x2x4(height) slices out of an 8" square cake. That's the standard serving size...if you're going to cut 16 slices then you could cut them 2x2x4 which is a pretty big chunk of cake.

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A standard piece of cake is 1x2x4. Your cake is 4" tall. Cut a strip of cake 2" wide. Then cut that strip into 1" pieces. So on an 8" cake, you'd cut 4 rows (8" side cut in 2" strips = 4 strips) by 8 columns (8" side cut in 1" pieces = 8 columns)= 32 pieces.

No, one inch is NOT paper-thin, like most people think. It's about the size of a peanut butter sandwich. Not to be confused with the big 'ole honkin' piece of cake we tend to eat in front of the TV at night, in the dark, all alone, when all the calories are gone!

Here's a picturial on how to cut cakes. Same method for round or square cakes: http://www.cateritsimple.com/id10.html

Yes.

okay makes sense. thanks everyone!

Really! I cut and served from a 10" just this past weekend at my tasting event. As usual, at least one hefty forkful left behind from each taster. Men, women, (one laaaaaarge dude even)...makes no difference.