3D Cakes - How To Determine # Of Servings??
Decorating By tigerhawk83 Updated 20 Aug 2009 , 8:24pm by tigerhawk83
Have been baking some teddy bear cakes for family - but am starting to learn about cake pricing and I see that many of you price cakes by the serving. I can understand that for uniform shapes like rounds, squares, etc, but how do you determine number of servings for a stand up cake? Or do you just not bother, price it as a full cake only, and tell customers what your estimate is (knowing that it is not likely these kinds of cakes would be ordered for big gatherings).
I have a Nordic Ware bear pan - takes 12-14 cups of batter, and about 4 hours to assemble and decorate with fondant and demarara sugar fur. When I made it for a luncheon at Christmas, I easily fed 15-17 staff people on just one half after lunch - but we just hacked at it. 
Not sure what I would advise someone actually buying it. Any advice??
I go by 1/4c batter for a wedding serving, and 1/3 cup batter for party servings to get a rough guide. So your pan will serve approx 36-48 going by 12 cups of batter.
Thanks for the suggestions - appreciate both ideas.
Mike, your estimate matches pretty well with my experience in serving this cake @ home. Since I got 15-17 pieces out of half, then the whole would be 30-34 and cutting a little more precisely certainly would get 36-40.
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