My cousin wants me to make her cake for her wedding she only wants 3 layers but it needs to feed 220 can it be done? Thanks
if you make them large enough... start with a huge base.
Does she really expect over 200 people? I would ask the bride how many were on her total invite list. take that number times 60% to get a good general idea - exceptions are if they are military, very involved in their church or african-american.....then use 70%.
for over 200 people, she can have a really grand 4 or 5 tier cake.
Does she really expect over 200 people? I would ask the bride how many were on her total invite list. take that number times 60% to get a good general idea - exceptions are if they are military, very involved in their church or african-american.....then use 70%.
for over 200 people, she can have a really grand 4 or 5 tier cake.
Are you implying we know how to tear up some cake? Then you'd be right! LOL!
hahahaha! It's just an interesting observation that I"ve made over the past 20+ years. When I told one african-american bride those 3 exceptoins, I said, "I can only guess that the african american community is very family oriented", she said, "No, we just like free food!"
But I'm tellin' ya!...... that formula works!
do you have any wilton books? cause they tell you what size of cakes you need to feed 220 people. i'm looking in mine now....if your going round, then supposedly an 18" will feed 72, an 16" will feed 54, an 15" will feed 45...that's only 171 people for a 3 tier. if you add a 12" it will add 33 people. this is based on 1inx2in pieces that are 4 inches high. hope that helped.
Pookster, is that an old or a new book? Here's the link to the Wilton website serving chart(s) and the numbers are totally different: http://www.wilton.com/wedding/cakeinfo/cakedata.cfm It shows a 16" serves 100; a 14" serves 78 and a 12" serves 56.
This is what I would do: I would start with a large base like 16in. I would make 2 16in cakes each with 3 layers. I would then turn this into a double layer cake. That means you would need to separate them with dowels and such as if they were 2 theirs and frost and decorate it as a whole tier then I would do the same for the next tier and would make that about 10 or 12 in then for the third tier that is like 6in.
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