Searched But No Luck - How To Cut Oval?

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Edibleart Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 4:30am
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A customer needs 30 party servings for a 75th birthday and I went by Wilton's party 2" pans (2 layers). Now I'm not sure how to get that many pieces out of it!! Does anyone have a chart on how to do this?

TIA

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cowdex Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 4:41am
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I looked - I can't find it - I've seen it somewhere...it is based on the round cake design - it that helps you.

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Edibleart Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 4:42am
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I found one chart on Earlene's website but it is for much smaller servings. Of course, not 30!!! even for the smaller size!

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slejdick Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 4:49am
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It's in the Wilton yearbooks. I'm looking at the 2005 yearbook, and it's on page 109, if you have that one.

I'll try to describe how they do the diagram, hope this makes sense!

Basically you cut the cake longways into two inch wide strips, then cut each strip into one inch pieces (I'm looking at the wedding serving guide, which is based on 1x2 inch pieces). The edge pieces are cut the same way, but there are a couple that will be almost triangular shape, because of the curve on the ends of the cake. There are no curved cuts on the cake, which is different from the way a round cake is cut.

Laura.

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slejdick Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 4:52am
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What size oval pan did you use?

The smallest (10ish x 8ish) shows 26 wedding servings, which are the 1x2 inch size.

The next size (13ish x 10ish) has 45 servings.

The largest (16ish x 12ish) has about 70 servings.

If you're doing 2x2 inch servings, you'd get half as many as the chart shows.

hth!
Laura.

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newlywedws Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 5:51am
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This is from the (wilton) tapedshut.gif website

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Edibleart Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 4:01pm
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I am using the 10ish by 13ish size with 2-2" layers but it is for a party. The servings chart shows 30 but I'm just not sure how to tell them to cut it to make sure they get 30 servings! I think the size of the pieces would be around 1.5 x 2?

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KHalstead Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 4:10pm
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probably...........most times when a cake is two layers they figure one serving to be about 1x2 because of the thickness........if it's a single layer than it would be 2x2 does that make sense??

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newlywedws Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 5:09pm
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Perhaps you could leave a diagram cutting instruction sheet and let them know that failure to cut the cake as suggested might short them on cake?

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Edibleart Posted 12 Sep 2006 , 6:49pm
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Okay - I taped a couple pieces of paper together and traced around the bottom of my pan and got a chart that makes the pieces around 1.5 x2 (except the outside curved pieces) that should give them about 31 servings - hopefully this works for them! My greatest fear is that they will run out of cake! It is a cake for my husband's aunt and I would hate to have that happen.

Thanks for the help! You guys are great.

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