Help!! Need To Determine Size Of Cake To Make!!
Decorating By Quietcntry Updated 17 Aug 2006 , 1:49pm by Quietcntry
Okay...I am making the birthday cake for my grandmother's birthday on Saturday. She will be 91 and this is really the first cake I will be doing for something other than for my kids and husband to eat. What size do you ladies use for a double layer cake? I am making a lemon cake and want to frost the middle but can't determine what size pan to use so that I have a nice height to the cake. HELP!!!!! Suggestions please!
So long as you use 2in deep pans, a 2 layer cake will be around 4in deep. How many will it need to serve?
It needs to serve 9-10 people and I would like everyone to have a nice piece of cake.
A two-layer 8" round cake will be plenty, then. One box mix easily fills 2 8" rounds. Or, you could go with one of the 'cake extender' recipes here, and have 3 somewhat thinner layers with 2 layers of filling -- and it will be even more dramatically "tall". (I tend go for drama whenever I can 
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I agree with the 8in, but I would suggest torting both layers so you end up with 4 layers of cake and 3 of filling - yum! Good luck!
An 8" is what I thought too. Now...is the 8" pan that is about 2" deep enough or do I need the one that is 3" deep????? I never knew there were so many pans! Yikes!
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