Hi fellow bakers!
I'm making a 2 tier cake for my daughter, it will be covered in fondant with a quilt design on the bottom tier and just a few flowers on the top tier, with a name plaque. It will also have a crown came topper.
I haven't baked a cake to this scale before and I'm busy with two young girls as well, so I've decided to cut down my work a little by using cake mixes.
I want to bake the cakes so they are quite tall so I'm going for a four layered cake (maybe). I'm using a 9" and a 7" pan. My question is, how much cake mix do I need? I don't want to extend the recipes, I want to keep it as simple as possible. The box says it's for a 2 layer 8" cake, so I'm guessing for four layers of a 9 in cake, I need four boxes? (1 box per layer) and for the 7" I could get 2 boxes? (1 box for 2 layers)?
I hope that's not confusing and someone could help me out please?
Thanks x
It depends on how deep your pans are. You should be able to make one layer in the 9"(by 2" deep pan) plus maybe 1/2 enough batter leftover for the 7" pan using one batch of this recipe: http://www.cakecentral.com/recipe/7445/the-original-wasc-cake-recipe Repeat that 2 or 3 times for a nice tall cake. If your pans are only 1 or 1&1/2" deep than you will have enough for one layer of each size pan from one batchs. Fill each pan 3/4 full - which = 1 & 1/2" batter in a pan 2" deep. I've been known to use a ruler to actually measure the amount of batter when I 1st started baking :)
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