Hi Everyone!
I received a phone call today from a woman wanting "help" making a cake, which turned into will I please do it for her. I think my helpful comments were intimidating.
Anyway, she wants a pretty simple cake... an oval, made to look like a basket, and then filled with fresh flowers. Here's the catch, she wants to feed 100... is that even possible?
My thoughts were to make a 12" oval, and then put it on a 12" circle. Does anyone have any better ideas? Also, how much should I charge for this? I am truly puzzled with this one!
Any comments/ideas would be so very helpful!
If I were you I would make the cake out of what ever size oval you though would work best and compensate for the rest of the cake you will need to serve by making sheet cakes. If you try to overdo the basket cake so that it will feed 100 people it might end up looking funny. If you can make the basket to serve around 30 or so you could do 2 half sheet cakes to cover the remainder of cake you need. As far as price goes, I have no idea.
Hope this helps
I agree with the reply before me here, make your basket out of the oval that you have and supplement the rest of the servings with sheets cakes that aren't visible to the rest of the guests. The other option, would be to create a few smaller "satellite" cakes that surround the main cake.
As far as price goes, most bakeries charge $2.75-$4.00 per serving, so you would simply multiply your serving price by 100. Deciding what to charge depends really on how much time you estimate the cake to take. I would imagine that the basket cake will take some time given all the flowers you will have to create, so you may want to go with $3.00-4 per serving for the smaller cake, then maybe $1-2 per serving for the sheet cakes since they won't require too much work.
The basket cake that this lady wants, sounds like the final cake in wilton's course 2...I have attached a pic.
Hope this helps! 
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