I have several of her books, adore her work, and would really love to be able to offer recreations of her designs to my customers BUT, for those of you who have made these cakes, how many servings did you get out of them (the size of the cakes most of these shapes are based on aren't exactly huge!), and what would you charge for one (they all look time consuming, even the 'easy' ones!).

Thanks in advance for any help/advice!

oh i'm so bumping this! I made the my little pony cake from her lovable character cakes book and it went on and on for days..... I don't know how many it would have served but it ended up being so rich (i used a choc. cake mix w/ italian buttercream icing and rolled buttercream for the fondant) that the servings did NOT need to be large! I didn't think it was all that big though.........

anyway the only way I can guess is to look at what size pans you are using and use Wilton's or someone elses's charts..... for example, if you are using a 9 in and a 8 in cake pan (I think that's what I used -don't have the bok in front of me) - how much does one layer of each actually serve? (You would have to divide the Wilton # in half b/c it is usually is for 2 layers or one tier). That's the only way I could guess

However, I want to make her Mario Cake for a b-day in January and I have NOOO idea how many that would serve. So if anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them too!

I made a cake from Debbie's Enchanted Cakes book for my friend's birthday a few weeks ago. Here's a picture with my 2 year old daughter for scale:

http://www.tradewindtiaras.com/personal/ainsleywcastlecake.jpg

(oh, and I hadn't put on a few finishing touches, like cleaning up the base, so please forgive the sloppiness.)

It being my first time making one of Debbie's cakes, I used her recipes. The European style cake was very dense and rich, and we could have gotten away with quite small slices. As it was, we cut about 15 very generous slices, the birthday girl took the top castle part home, and there was still quite a bit of cake left over that we gave to the kitchen staff.

Wow modthyrth ! Beautiful job on the cake! I know in the UK, when we say cake tin, we are generally talking about pans about 3 - 4 ins deep (the ones like Wilton with only 2in or less depth we would call sandwich pans), so I know that I need to make a 2 layer cake of about 3in depth for each cake she says to make, so I guess I could work the servings out that way! If you had done that cake for a customer, what would you have charged? Thanks!

Thanks for the language tutorial, bon! I thought the layers looked thicker than my wilton pans would provide, so I used my deeper sets. Now I know why!

I'm just a hobbyist at this point. I run a wedding tiara business, and am trying to figure out the best way to branch into doing cakes, too. So I'm afraid I have no clue what I would have charged for the cake! That's one of the reasons I'm poking around this forum. I spent about 4 or 5 hours decorating, plus baking time if that is any help.

hmm the language thing has me a little confused now... sandwich pans??? Do you make sandwiches in them? Huh???

So when Debbie says that you need an 8 in round pan, she means you need 2 8 in round pans that are 2 in deep? Is that what I'm understanding?

When we say sandwich cakes we mean cakes that have been baked in 2 layers and then sandwiched together with a filling! Debbie Brown uses tins that are 3in deep, so if you use 2in deep tins, you'll need to make 2 layers to get the same height Hope that clears things up a bit!

Thanks! I just bought 3 of her books and can't wait to have some time to try out the cakes! Now if I can only find someone to pay me for those specific designs so I can try them AND be paid for them

glad i read this, i'm in the middle of baking a madeira sponge cake from one of her books (i just bought 2 of her books, she's pretty cool) and it said to bake a 6" for 50 minutes, fortunately i figured there's nooo way and checked them after 30 and they were done.

I did Debbie Browns sunken treasure had fun but it took 2 days.