about wedding cake servings. Someone says one thing and Wilton say another. What would you do for 100 serving square cake? This is my 1st wedding cake. The friend I made the wedding dress shower cake had her baker cancel. Now she wants me to make her wedding cake! Please advise.
I use the wilton wedding serving chart to determine pricing. If I do the cutting, this is the size I cut it in. If the family does the cutting, they are welcome to cut it any size they want, but if they cut them big enough to feed Jethro Bodine, then they better plan to buy more servings.
Back to my KFC example: the chicken strips meal has 3 pieces of chicken in it. If you think that's too small, you have to buy more chicken. KFC is not going to throw in bigger pieces or more pieces just because your relatives eat like Jethro.
A wedding cake is not a meal....it's a dessert. A 1x2x4 piece is bigger than you think, but people hear "one inch" and they think "teeny tiny". It's not.
Here's the wilton chart: http://www.wilton.com/wedding/cakeinfo/cakedata.cfm
Here's a pictorial on how to cut a wedding cake: http://cateritsimple.com/_wsn/page19.html
For a square wedding cake, I'd use a 12/8/6 (104 servings w/o counting the top tier).
Thanks indydebi. I was thinking 12-8-6 (saving top tier) but Earlene's chart says that would only serve 84. I think I'll go by Wilton for this. She's worried no one actually eats the cake 
I know I'll be eating my cake. Now I just got to figure out what to charge. She wants it bc with a band of fondant around bottom of layer decorated like I did her shower cake.
I can't cut a cake without my comb! Here's the best price I've seen for them: http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-399863.html
No one eat the cake!??
Had a woman order brownies from me instead of cake (not a wedding .... just a party). She was having it at a venue that I'm in all the time. Ironically, I've only done catering at this event.....not cake. She tells me "The lady who manages the place tells me that she sees most cake left on the plate and going into the trash."
So I get my "soul sista" look and attitude and tell her, "honey, that's because she's never tasted MY cakes!!!" 
debi, do you cut the cake w/ the comb or help plate it with it? I've never seen one before!
debi, do you cut the cake w/ the comb or help plate it with it? I've never seen one before!
It's used for serving....cut the cake with a knife and lift the piece of cake with the comb. Use the knife to push the piece of cake from the comb to the plate. Your hands never touch the cake.
very cool. i usually try to scoop up the cake with the blade of the knife (and lose 1/2 of it)
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