Has Anyone Baked Number Cakes Before? Help With Servings, Please!
Baking By MerMadeBakedGoods Updated 5 Apr 2019 , 11:21pm by -K8memphis
A lady just called me and wants a 5, 0 and an 8” (serves about 24) round cake for her parents 50th anniversary.
I think the 5 and 0 cake pans at the supply store are 14” by 10”. I have NO idea how many people that will serve!
They need to serve 75.
Help, please... you beautiful bakers!!!
you need about 23 cups of batter to come out with 75 servings -- however there are two different ways to order a cake -- by number of servings or by silhouette -- this is the latter so idk -- just depends on how big each of the numbers is -- a number one will typically take less batter than a four or a zero --
each cake mix is about 5 cups batter -- cake recipes can be 6-8 cups -- you just gotta measure it so you'll know -- so you'll need to use at least five mixes to have enough servings if you are baking in already molded number pans -- if it's a recipe that makes eight cups of batter you'll need four recipes --
I love you, K8. :)
You’re totally right. I think each of the numbers will serve at LEAST 25...possibly 35. So that means I’m good to go!
Someone at the supply store said they fill the number 5 with 2 boxes of cake mix.
Since I charge by the slice I think I may go with something in the middle? Say...charge for 30 slices?
30 servings per pan? you're short 15 servings -- that might work if you can fit the other three boxes into the 0
what I did was use bubble numbers which use a maximum of cake and cut them out with templates -- they can be outlined in a different color to provide the right dimension
love you too, mmbg
because with a silhouette cake -- you've got weird shaped servings too so you need to allow for additional servings
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