Size Cake For Serving At Birthday
Decorating By HolleyRose Updated 4 Apr 2011 , 4:56pm by TexasSugar
I'm making a flip flop cake for a friend at work this week and am not sure how large to make it. I need enough to feed about 40 people. I plan on carving the shape from a single layer sheet cake. Do you think an 11" by15" sheet cake or 2 9" by 13" sheet cakes would be large enough for that many people. Thanks for any advice.
From an 11" x 15" sheet cake, you get 41 2"x 2" x 2" servings (according to metria's cake calculator - http://shinymetalobjects.net/cake/calculator/cake_calculator_byVolume.cgi) and from two 9" x 13" cakes you get 58. Since you're going to lose some cake from the carving, you might want to make a pair of flip-flops, one from each 9" x 13" cake. You can always use the leftover cake to make cake balls!
From an 11" x 15" sheet cake, you get 41 2"x 2" x 2" servings (according to metria's cake calculator - http://shinymetalobjects.net/cake/calculator/cake_calculator_byVolume.cgi) and from two 9" x 13" cakes you get 58. Since you're going to lose some cake from the carving, you might want to make a pair of flip-flops, one from each 9" x 13" cake. You can always use the leftover cake to make cake balls!
Your link doesn't work. This one should:
http://shinymetalobjects.net/cake/calculator/cake_calculator_byVolume.cgi
thank you , thank you, thank you for your quick response. That's all I needed to know. Think I'll do the two.
Thanks CWR41, I should have checked the link once I posted it, which is what I usually do. But I have to say that calculator is a godsend - I can't tell you how many times I've used it since I ran across it! Let's hear a big one for metria!!!
Do you have oval cake pans? If so, I'd probably actually start with them, since the shape is very close, and you would be carving off less.
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