I am thinking of making the Pina Colada Cake (with pineapple filling and rum frosting) in the recipe section .............. BUT then of course I keep browsing through the forums and saw that some of you are using 'cake extender'.

The above cake serves 12 and I need to make enough to serve about 130.
So I was thinking of making the display cake in a sheet and then make enough cutting cakes.

What do you think?

What exactly is cake extender and is it available in Australia?

Also could someone advise me please.......... what weight is 'a stick of butter' in Aust we measure everything by grams, I can convert from ounces to grams but I just need to know what a stick is.

Please except my thanks in advance

1 stick is 8 tablespoons or 1/4 pound if that helps. The cake extender is a recipe that you can find by doing a search on cake central. You mix extra ingredients to a box mix.

Not an Aussie, but....

The cake extender recipe is for use with boxed cake mixes; it cannot just be added to a scratch recipe to make more batter.

Here is the basic cake mix extender recipe:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-1977-0-Cake-Mix-extender.html

Conversion charts:

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-61091.html

Past threads on conversions w/more charts, etc.:

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-58035-.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-55831-.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-17281-.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-13190-.html

HTH