What Size Cake?

Decorating By Carrie211 Updated 19 Apr 2007 , 3:37pm by crisseyann

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Carrie211 Posted 18 Apr 2007 , 11:24pm
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As I've mentioned 300 times already, I'm doing a baby shower cake for this weekend.

There will probably be about 20 people there. Not too big. I don't want to do a tiered cake...I'm just not at that level yet LOL

Do you think a 9 x 13 cake would be enough? I just want to do a sheet cake, or if that won't work, then I could do a double layer round cake.

What's a good rule for determining how big of a cake you should make?

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nefgaby Posted 18 Apr 2007 , 11:39pm
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I guess it depends on a couple factors.... how big do you want to serve your pieces of cake and how tall is your cake. I think 9x13 should be enough for 20 or a 10 in. round also. I like my cakes tall though, about 4 inches. HTH.

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ashley87 Posted 18 Apr 2007 , 11:47pm
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I think that a 9 x 13 should be good. The other thing to think about is that not everyone may eat cake, especially if there is other food/desserts there. And some peope dont like cake(yeah, i know, how can you not??lol)Good Luck!

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gingersoave Posted 18 Apr 2007 , 11:50pm
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I agree with nefgaby, I think 9x13 is fine and I also like a tall cake, so if it were me I would stack 2 9x13's on top of each other, HUGE cake and will at that point feed around 45ish.

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nefgaby Posted 19 Apr 2007 , 12:27am
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Sorry to hijack the thread.... Ginger, WOW, that cake on your avatar is amazing!!!!! Love it!!!
And you are in VA Beach, ahhhhh, I just moved from VA Beach to Florida, DH is in the military, I wish I had known about you when I was still in the area... oh well, just wanted to say, BEAUTIFUL CAKE!

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Carrie211 Posted 19 Apr 2007 , 1:11am
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Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it!

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gingersoave Posted 19 Apr 2007 , 11:23am
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nefgaby, thanks! I teach Wilton at the Michaels at Hilltop. I love the beach!!! I wish we could have met before you moved! We go to florida all the time, Brother in gainesville, parents are in dunellen and we have a house in ocala!!

I wish more CCers could connect with each other in person, everyone on here seems to be such a close "cake family"!!!!

Good luck in Florida!

ginger

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nefgaby Posted 19 Apr 2007 , 3:28pm
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Oh Thanks Ginger!!! Well, when you come down to FL and want to stop in JAX, let me know!!!!!

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crisseyann Posted 19 Apr 2007 , 3:37pm
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I, too, would use stacked and filled 9 X 13 cakes for this occasion. I love tall cakes. icon_biggrin.gif

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