Urgent!! To Small Of A Cake??
Decorating By FerretDeprived Updated 25 May 2007 , 11:09am by FerretDeprived
Ok so i'm making the demensions and porportions out for my race car cake. The picture i have measured the entire car to be 6 inches. I said "ok just triple it" i thought an 18 inch car woudl be fine(triple recipe of the batter is np with my KA!). But i go to get the width and it would be 12 inches! ACK that is a TON of red fondant that i don't think i can handle.
This is a grooms cake, do you think 12 inches long 5 inches wide and 4-6 inches tall is to small for a grooms cake? I don't want to make this to small ,but my firend make it as big as possible. That's fine but at the same time i don't want the cake to go up to 200+ dollars just because of supplies. I want to keep this 150 and below.. but i don't want to give them a tiny cake...
So is 12 inches long 5 inches wide and 4-6 inches TOO small??? 
Should i warp the porportions a little to make it a 14 inch cake to compermise??
I need to get started on things ASAP so i need advice urgently!
You don't tink that'll make the cake to wide? I decided to make it a 15 inch cake and i think the entire cake is 9 inches wide. but thats from side to side(like imagine the hood of the car being that wide, the top kinda slants to be considerably smaller).
Do you think the 9 inches is enough? Or i should add another inch? I actually drew it out and it seems a bit.. skinny ,but i took direct proportions and even added 3 inches.. I'm trying to make this realistic ,but i don't have to be perfect. I know all to well how a cake can look better when the proportions are changed a bit.
Really i'm just worried it's to small.. 
How many people are you trying to serve with your grooms cake?
I made a McQueen cake out of a 9X13 once all carved and put together. the car was about 8 1/2 inch long by 6 inch wide. I know this is a cartoon car, but it looked pretty good for being a last minute decoration with BC. Now I know how to use the melvira method....
Anyhow, although we made small pieces, we had enough for 26 pieces just out of this thick cake. I also had put another 9X13 which we never got to until after the party.
I just added the how to, I know I'm a rookie but I hope this can give you some perspective when you look at the picture.
that's a great cake gateaux! 
I don't think they are actually tryng to serve any spacific number with the grooms cake. This is jsut a request by the husband and its his only request. They just want it big enough to be a .. good sized cake? I don't know big enough to make ti really spacial? Lol I guess my cake size will feed around 30-40ish people? They were never spacific.
I'm not sure they even want to eat this cake. 
I became a last resort after they couldn't find anyone else in town to do the cake for them(what a suprise i'll give them when they'll get soething better than those other bakeries! 
). I'm guessing they don;t knwo any small bakeries or private bakeries around here though, they went to just big place..
Well, if it's just for show then you can play with it a bit more. I think your idea is a good size. You will be able to get a lot of nice details on it.
I am sure it will work out great.
My final Blue McQueen is in my photo's I just cant seem to see anything but the CC home page pictures tonight. Oh well.
Good Luck.
Based on your original dimensions of 18" long by 12" wide, a cake that is 15" long should be 10" wide. (A ratio of 3" long to 2" wide.)
I'm betting the original car picture you measured was 6" long by 4" wide, right? You would multiply the 6 by 3 to get 18 and the 4 by three to get 12, as you said. So...to get a cake that is 15" long, you multiply the 6 by a factor of 2 1/2. (6 x 2.5 = 15) You would also multiply the 4 by 2 1/2, to get a width of 10".
I think that 15 X 10 by 4-6 inches tall would be plenty big.
Does this make sense?
Based on your original dimensions of 18" long by 12" wide, a cake that is 15" long should be 10" wide. (A ratio of 3" long to 2" wide.)
I'm betting the original car picture you measured was 6" long by 4" wide, right? You would multiply the 6 by 3 to get 18 and the 4 by three to get 12, as you said. So...to get a cake that is 15" long, you multiply the 6 by a factor of 2 1/2. (6 x 2.5 = 15) You would also multiply the 4 by 2 1/2, to get a width of 10".
I think that 15 X 10 by 4-6 inches tall would be plenty big.
Does this make sense?
It makes perfect sense! Thank you!! I'll add the extra inch! 
Thank you!!
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