Help! I was asked to make a 3D pencil skirt dress for 200 people. What size cakes should I use? I’m delivering In a suv also. How tall and wide. Need to feed 200. Thinking of making the top part neck and shoulder In RKT like a mannequin. Please help cake SOS
I would take the easier way out I’d make the figure on a sheet cake which will give you about 1/2 of the # of servings needed w/o having to deal with as much transportation problems Then for the skirt on the sheet I suggest using 4 to 6 8 or 9” rounds with cake boards between each 2 then topping the whole thing with the RCT . That should keep it around 10-15” tall total & give a more secure cake. Serving 200 with just a pencil skirt would take about eight or ten 10” rounds making it at least 18” -20” tall & a total nightmare to transport
You did not specify if you needed wedding servings, 1" x 2" or party servings, 2" x 2", which would make a considerable difference in the size and number of layers. Regardless of size, this will be a delivery nightmare. Unless you have someone to ride in the back of the SUV to help stablize the top heavy structure, I would advise against it. You could make four 12" round cakes, 4" tall (2 or 3 layers, depending upon height of each layer), and stack them with cake boards between each 4" of height, which would give you approximately 216 wedding size servings. Carving for the waist, etc., will remove a few servings. This would result in a cake around 18" tall, and it would still be a pretty stubby torso. Maybe a mini dress!
there's two different ways to design a cake like this by servings or by silhouette -- this one has to be designed by silhouette for it to look right -- i'd use from the hem of the skirt up 14x14x14x12x10x14x16 -- seven tiers -- I set up my dummies and this looks good -- then you gotta make it more oval shaped and carve it -- but this is how I would bake it -- that's for a short sleeved dress
the first time I worked this I took real measurements here https://www.sizeguide.net/size-guide-women-size-chart.html and divided by 4 to try to get the right servings but that is caddy wompus --
actually using quarter sheets in place of some of the twelve inchers especially in the bottom of the skirt might be less waste — and all of these are four inch tall cakes
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