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 :)
For 2 in high cake layers, 3 boxes should be enough. 1 box would be enough for the 2 - 7inches and the other 2 boxes would take cake of the 2 - 9inches
Sorry I just reread the original post and realized you are doing four layers so that would be six boxes. You could maybe do 5 boxes but I would plan for 6 just to be safe.
Thank so guys, my pans are 9x2 and 7x3 inches.
I'm going to bake them one layer at a time I think rather than torting. Not sure what isn't best.
I'm doing 4 layers in each tier, so do you think I should get two boxes for the 7 in one?
If you use the WASC recipe one box for 3 layers of 7" cake would fit nicely. You will need to put every 2 layers on a cake board so you can take it apart to cut. A cake 8" tall will not fit on a dessert plate.
Thanks for that kakeladi, this is going to sound so stupid but do you know how many grams in one cup?
Thanks x
No I don't. Maybe you will need to google "grams to cup"........I know there are charts on the web - I've seen them.
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