Hello everyone!
I just joined cake central I have been making and decorating cakes for a few years now. I have always just guessed on how much batter I need for whatever cake sizes I am doing. But now that I am slowing getting into doing cakes for other people and charging them. I need a more effective way of doing things. I know this might be a stupid question but this is a place I feel comfortable asking. I have recipes that I love to use all the time for bday cakes so on and so forth.. most of them will fill (2) 9x2 pans. So my question is how can I figure exactly how much batter I will need for any other size cake? I need to be more cost efficient instead of just "winging it"..
Crista
Check out this link to the Wilton website. It lists the batter amounts for each type of pan.
http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-serving-guide.cfm
I'm not sure if this helps or not, but measure how much batter you get from a recipe, then how many cups it takes to fill a pan to how full you want it (1/2 full, 2/3s full). You can fill the pan with water to see how many cups it takes. Wilton has a good approximation of how much batter per pan on their site. Maybe someone has the link handy. It's a place to start :)
That's the chart I'm using too. With recipes that don't state the pan size, I simply add up all the ingredients and convert them into cups...et voila!
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Crista
Check out this link to the Wilton website. It lists the batter amounts for each type of pan.
http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-serving-guide.cfm
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