My question is what is the thickness of a sheet cake? My pans are 2 inch deep and the cakes that I make just don't seem thick enough. So I end up baking 2 cakes and sometimes the customer doesn't want filling so what do I do that case? The one I did the other day I had made simple syrup and put the 2 cakes together with out any filling and it looked to be the right thickness then. I use the wasc cake in one one it fulls the pan, it bake just about to the top of the pan.
Do they make 4 inch deep sheet pans?
TIA,
Diane
A sheet cake is 2" high.
Sometimes I get brides/grooms who tell me they don't want any filling. 99.9% of the time, this means they don't want a FRUITY type of filling .... they just want icing between the layers.
For the 0.1% who really mean "no" filling, I tell them they HAVE to have a filling ... it's the glue that holds the two layers together. I can't (won't) make a 2-layer cake w/o filling.
If your cakes aren't baking to the top of the pan, you're probably not putting enough batter in the pan. I like to use baking strips and reduce the oven temp by 25 degrees.
Everything you need to know to make, decorate and assemble tiered/stacked/layer cakes:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-605188-.html
Above superthread has popular CC recipes for crusting American buttercreams, several types of fondant and doctored cake mix (WASC and other flavor variations) and so much more.
There's also a link to Wilton's cake making help... Gives batter requirements by pan size as well as recommended baking temps. and times - as well as servings yields by pan size.
In addition, there's info on making your own pan grease, using bake-even strips and substituting flower nails for heating core.
HTH
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