When doing sheet cakes, do you use one layer or two? With one layer, do you use 2" or 3" pan? Just curious.

Sometimes it depends on what's common in your area. Around here, if someone orders a "sheet cake", they expect a single layer, rectangle, 2" tall, no filling, cake.

It really depends on how many they're serving. Normally, when I think "sheet cake", it's a 1-layer, 2" deep cake. However, if they need more servings that a large 1-layer can feed, then I go with a smaller, 2-layer.

I rarely have a request for a sheet cake filled... it's usually a single layer 2" deep.

I like to fill my sheet cakes, it's unexpected so I like to do it when I make them for family or just for fun.

I always make my sheet cake two layers with filling but if you order from a grocery store around here, you get a single layer torted and filled

I always thought that it would be 2 layers with filling, but now that I think about it, the grocery store ones are thinner then the ones I make.

I'm glad you brought this topic up.

yea see that's what I always thought, that they were two layers but I went to a birthday party recently for my daughter's classmate and it was either torted or else just two 1 inch cakes and it got me thinking and I realized that every sheet cake I could remember was always thinner than something I would make so I think they just make one layer and torte it.

Thanks for all the reply's. This helps. I've only make a 2-layer sheet cake once b/c for some reason it looked really small. Here's another question.

What exactly does torte mean? I was never taught this term.

Thanks!

I use torte to describe taking a single cake layer and cutting it in half to make two layers so for example when I bake my cakes, I will make two 2" cakes and then torte each cake so my finished cake will have 4 -- 1" layers of cake and 3 layers of filling... Hope that makes sense.

I just made my first sheet cake. I used a 2" pan and thought it looks so small, so I made 2 layers and put a filling. It came out very nice.