Did I calculate this wrong??? My customer wanted a full sheet cake (18x24) but since the pan doesn't fit in a regular over, I made 2 half sheet (12x1
cakes and made it as a double layer cake. The servings were supposed to be 1x2" for 100ish people.
I told my customer that is what I would be doing but after she received the cake, she said everything was perfect but the cake was a half sheet instead of a full sheet.
I haven't spoken to her yet but that's what I heard from an individual at the party.
Any comments?
If you explained it to the customer before hand, and they knew how to cut the pieces accordingly then you are 100% in the clear here. What business is it of a guest what size cake was ordered? Unless it was talked about by the hostess.... all in all you gave them the same volume of cake as a full sheet and they got what they paid for. The only thing I can think of as being a problem is that a full sheet LOOKS bigger than a double half and so someone could have been disappointed in the "wow" effect... but again, if you already cleared it with the customer, then no harm no foul.
FWIW, what I do for full sheet cake orders is bake the same way you did, but then set the half sheets side by side so that the fully iced cake is a full sheet.
According to Wilton, a double layer 12x18x2 yields 72 parts size (1 1/2x2x4") servings.
A double layer 14x22x2 yields 98 party size servings.
Wilton 2" party size chart:
http://www.wilton.com/cake/cakeprep/baking/times/party_2inch.cfm
Single Layer Serving Chart:
(From allinonebakeshop.com.)
An 18x26x2 yields 117 slices that are 2x2x2"
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-66573-.html
Previous threads on sheet cake sizes:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-234751-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-34913-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-50570-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-268793-.html
HTH
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