Filling a cake and Other Question!!

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Becker on May 3, 2011 at 11:38pm

Well this is all a matter of opinion.  What you and like others may or may not.  I don 't like a lot of filling, but I know most people do.  So I add a lot of filling. 

When I worked in a bakery, the filling had to be at least as much as 1/4" thick.  I've seen it 1/2."  Yuck!  But to each his own.

As for apologizing, hopefully others can give you some hints.

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Permalink Reply by jeri c on May 4, 2011 at 12:00am

I pipe the dam around the cake using a coupler in a piping bag and stiffened buttercream then fill the cake to the top of the dam.  Seems to be a good measure for the filling.  

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Permalink Reply by Karen Underdahl on May 4, 2011 at 7:20am

I have to agree, filling is really a matter of taste.  On Amazing Wedding Cakes, Laurie, from Cake Alchemy, would make the filling as thick as one layer of cake.  To me that's too much, but her clients loved it!  I do somewhere around 1/2" with 2" layers and less with smaller layers. 

I am not sure if I would apologize about the cake vs the cupcakes.  Did they complain about the cake???

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Permalink Reply by Mizztry on May 4, 2011 at 8:38am

Thanks ladies...i think i will try the dam method, but you are right some people like a lot of filling while others dont!  Maybe it is a question that i would ask the customer??

 

As for the cake, i got the impression that they did not like the taste of the cake.  So i'm not sure how to get feedback about that exactly indirectly!

 

 

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Permalink Reply by E. Rose on May 16, 2011 at 3:26pm

You can weight the cupcakes before and after in order to determine how much filling you 've added..

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