Wedding Cakes:
Wilton's Wedding Serving Chart seems to be the industry standard and one that almost everyone goes by. Am I correct in my assumption?

Party Cakes:
I am a little unsure about this one. Do you use Wilton's Party Serving Chart or Earlene's? I realize that Earlene's is a little more generous. I am always so afraid that I will not have enough cake. The other piece to this is appearance... I needed a 2 tier cake to feed 25-30 people and thought that 6"&9" would look teeny tiny and ended up making 7"&10".

I am just starting out and appreciate all your input.

Thanks,
Allie

I use Wilton for wedding & party

I use Wilton's wedding chart for all cakes, wedding or special occasion.

You are correct, the Wilton wedding chart is the industry standard for serving sizes (8 cu. in.) 1"x2"x4" or 2"x2"x2".

I use Earlene Moore's. It makes more sense to me.

I sort of use the Wilton Party servings chart.............I go by 12 cubic inches of cake per serving--1.5x2x4---for all cakes. I disagree with some of Wilton's serving #s, particularly on oddly shaped pans, so I look at Earlene's chart & take an average.

So far, so good. No one has ever complained about not enough cake.

Rae

The inustry standard is WIlton but you can use the one that you prefer. Its basically a selling point. If you aren't cutting the cake all the servings guide won't matter if the person
cutting the cake doesn't know any better.

Yes, venues should know how a cake should be cut, specially those who deal with
weddings. For most of the time they do. But in my years of experience I saw a few
people cutting the cakes way to big. And sometimes the person who does the cake
don't have a way to know what will happen when they cut it.

[quote="tonedna"]The inustry standard is WIlton but you can use the one that you prefer. Its basically a selling point. If you aren't cutting the cake all the servings guide won't matter if the person
cutting the cake doesn't know any better.[/quote]

And that's why you always include a cutting chart on the table with the cake. Discretely tucked behind the cake, of course.

Do you ever get the "I was expecting it to look bigger" comment? I would guess that to most people a 6"&9" tiered cake would look really tiny. Am I totally off base?

Sorry, one other question...
Do you ever ask the customer if they prefer slices on the bigger or smaller side and then give them the size options? or is it mostly that they are looking to the baker for guidance?

A commercial bakery in my area for example will say that a 12" will feed 25-40 people and a 14" will feed something like 40-60 people. If the party really is for 40 people, the customer is essentially deciding on bigger or smaller pieces for their guests.

Allie