All right, so I have a nice order of small cakes but, now I can not find the molds!!!! Has anyone taken a sheet cake pan and cut them up into squares? Does anyone have a suggestion for this besides sitting down and ?
Thanks
Sure! Just use cookie cutters, either square or round. My best advice is to really chill the sheet cake (like, semi-frozen) first before you cut. That gives nice clean shapes that are easy to cut and slip out of the cutter.
Mini cakes are REALLY time-consuming if you have to make a lot (like 25, 50, 100+) so do try to give yourself a lot more time than you think. We did a wedding of 200 three-tiered mini cakes once and it took 4 people 5 days to do it!! (Or was it 5 people 4 days, not sure now!? ) We decided to never do it again because of the work involved and the real dollar amount you'd have to charge for each one to make it worth it.
So now, I only offer them for 1st anniversaries for customers whose wedding cake I did the previous year. I make them a little 5" tall replica of the wedding cake design I did for them. Here's a sample.
(Oh, and if you don't want to special-order in those little 3"-4" cake boards for each one or have to cut out those little beasts by hand....just use a sugar cookie or even an upside-down Digestive cookie as the base!)
awwww.... that cake is so cute! i could imagine how time consuming it would be to do those for a lot of people.
i would say cutting a sheet cake would be fine.. just make sure that the sections are even.
Sure! Just use cookie cutters, either square or round. My best advice is to really chill the sheet cake (like, semi-frozen) first before you cut. That gives nice clean shapes that are easy to cut and slip out of the cutter.
Mini cakes are REALLY time-consuming if you have to make a lot (like 25, 50, 100+) so do try to give yourself a lot more time than you think. We did a wedding of 200 three-tiered mini cakes once and it took 4 people 5 days to do it!! (Or was it 5 people 4 days, not sure now!? ) We decided to never do it again because of the work involved and the real dollar amount you'd have to charge for each one to make it worth it.
So now, I only offer them for 1st anniversaries for customers whose wedding cake I did the previous year. I make them a little 5" tall replica of the wedding cake design I did for them. Here's a sample.
(Oh, and if you don't want to special-order in those little 3"-4" cake boards for each one or have to cut out those little beasts by hand....just use a sugar cookie or even an upside-down Digestive cookie as the base!)
That happened to me too.. 180 and of them..one was cutting..2 crumbcoating. I was finishing. It was hell!
I never want to do them again.. ..
I say now they are over $20.00 each and they usually stay away from them.
They do look cute..
I have to make 80 little mini square cakes with some fondant ribbon on them next month. I was planning on cutting up a sheet cake, half frozen, like suggested and just putting some sort of glaze on it to make the fondant stick. I was thinking of just running the fondant through the pasta machine. Is that the best way? I am going to give myself an entire day to do these cakes..I hope that is enough!
Is it easier to do the (wet) fondant coating if you are cutting sheet cakes?? Just wondering, the night mare FOR ME (some may not have this issue ) Is the crumb coating, so I use the poured fondant method, and that makes things alot easier....good luck, they are time consuming, people always want those baby block type single serving cakes, they are such a pain for me to frost and level and torte each one...I am with Edna $20 a piece that will detour them (I HOPE!)!
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