Does Everyone Use The Wilton Serving Chart??
Decorating By Normita Updated 4 Nov 2010 , 3:38am by Normita
I use the wilton serving chart, but sometimes I think the cakes do not come out with those number of servings. My cakes are pretty tall though....at least 4.5 to 5 inches in height with 4 layers of cake and 3 of filling. Just curious as to what others use out there. I also looked at Earlenes, but I think that might be too much.
Should I just keep on using the "industry standard" serving chart?
Well, those are usually the top two charts mentioned... 
Here's a link to indydebi's cake cutting method:
(So much easier than Wilton's method.)
http://cateritsimple.blogspot.com/search/label/cake%20comb
HTH
see the link in my signature on how to cut a wedding cake. I generally get 10% more than the wilton chart and I STILL have people asking me for "a smaller piece, please."
At my son's wedding, I made a 6/8/10/12 cake (serves 12/24/38/56 = 130). We cut about 110 pcs (based on the number of plates I used) and I STILL had the top 2 tiers left over! And yes.... people saying, "Oh that's too big ... can you cut one smaller for me?"
I use party servings for all of my orders, and explain to them the size of each portion. I always have enough cake left . I recently found Indydebi's method of cutting cake - it makes it sooo much easier to explain to people how to cut their round cakes and I have found that it ends up yielding extra servings too!
yes....wedding servings.
here's a photo of a 1x2x4: http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1156785
Normita, here's a link to a post that I think is fabulous for newbies like me:
Cake Serving Size Examples made of Paper or Cardstock
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-689515-.html
A teacher recently used IndyDebi's method to cut an 8" round, 4" tall cake in class to show us the serving sizes and she got 20 pieces out of it and had a third of a cake left.
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