Sheet Cake

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Permalink Reply by Diana on July 9, 2010 at 11:33am

UGH! I can't stand making sheet cakes, either! To me, they are quite boring. I prefer the tiered and sculpted ones! But it seems like most people that make requests (people I work with or on the AFB) want sheet cakes. Blah!

Jeanne said:

A single layer 9x13 will serve 24 2x2x2" servings with some leeway. You can cut that in 1/2 and add filling and get the same servings. If you bake two 2" tall 9x13's and fill and stack, you just doubled your servings to 50 1x2x4" tall servings.

It's easy to figure out sheet cake servings (square cakes too). The standard size serving for a single layer sheet is 2x2x2". For a double layer (4" tall like a "normal" cake) is 1x2x4" just like your normal cakes. You just divide it up.

I hate sheet cakes... blergh! The only thing my rectangle pans get used for is to bake off the "lump" to carve when making 3-D cakes... LOL.

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Permalink Reply by Gretchen Belsome on July 9, 2010 at 11:43am

Yeah, well it is for a High School Reunion and she wanted it to feed allot of people. Also she called last week for a cake this week. I probably could have talked her in to something different it I really wanted and had more time, but that is okay. It will not be to boring once I decorate it. I am going to use ediable glitter...LOL!!!! I just hope they eat it.... If not she is going to have cake for days!!!

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Permalink Reply by Jeanne on July 9, 2010 at 11:53am

I flat out don't offer them. They are not my forte and I take no joy in them so I know the design woudl suffer. If I can't talk someone into a tiered design I happily refer them elsewhere.

(plus... no one seems to want to pay $4/serving for a sheet cake... LOL)



Diana said:

UGH! I can't stand making sheet cakes, either! To me, they are quite boring. I prefer the tiered and sculpted ones! But it seems like most people that make requests (people I work with or on the AFB) want sheet cakes. Blah!

Jeanne said:

A single layer 9x13 will serve 24 2x2x2" servings with some leeway. You can cut that in 1/2 and add filling and get the same servings. If you bake two 2" tall 9x13's and fill and stack, you just doubled your servings to 50 1x2x4" tall servings.

It's easy to figure out sheet cake servings (square cakes too). The standard size serving for a single layer sheet is 2x2x2". For a double layer (4" tall like a "normal" cake) is 1x2x4" just like your normal cakes. You just divide it up.

I hate sheet cakes... blergh! The only thing my rectangle pans get used for is to bake off the "lump" to carve when making 3-D cakes... LOL.

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Permalink Reply by Gretchen Belsome on July 11, 2010 at 2:02am

I finished them.... If I every agree to do this again shoot me.... No really all in all it wasn't so bad. The chocolate was not fun to ice.  It all worked out.... I posted the pictures on my page!

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Permalink Reply by Diana on July 12, 2010 at 11:34am

Gonna check it out now! :-)

Gretchen Belsome said:

I finished them.... If I every agree to do this again shoot me.... No really all in all it wasn't so bad. The chocolate was not fun to ice.  It all worked out.... I posted the pictures on my page!

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