Oh my goodness, I've just begun making cakes again after a few months. I'm a bit nervous about this task. I have only done a couple tiered cakes. I've been asked to make a 3 tier square butter cream aqua color with white accents wedding cake. They also want top tier and bottom chocolate and the middle tier white. They only need to serve a rough estimate as of now is 60. The wedding isn't till Feb 9th. So my questions is what size pans would be best? Also, what brands do you all use? I personally do not like Wilton pans.
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Pretty much everything W is inferior. Best pans, IMO are Magic Line.
Squares are easy to figure on servings. length of one side X 1/2 length of another side = servings. Therefore an 8" pan serves 32 or, 8 X 4 = 32
6" square = 18 servings
10" square = 50 servings
Are they keeping the top tier as an anniversary tier? And even though they want 60 servings, they may have to buy more servings, because you may have to sell them a 6/8/10.
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Yes, they're wanting to keep the top tier, so a 6-8-10. Thanks so much! And yes, I've looked at the SPS system most defiantly will be using!
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I don't like the W pans because the corners on the rectangle and square pans are sort of rounded instead of being straight corners. My pans are not W either. I am sure that you will do just fine. Just take your time and focus on the task at hand and you will end up with no problems!!! I will be looking forwards to seeing a picture of your cake and I am sure it will be beautiful!!! You can do it!!!! Keep the faith!!
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I agree with Leah - Magic Line makes awesome pans. Fat Daddio's are good too. When I first started I bought a bunch of Wilton and have since replaced most of them with "good" pans.
The only other thing I can say is. . .practice those square corners. They are a pain, both in buttercream and in fondant, til you become adept at them.
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Oh, and btw, where can I buy these, and do all the pieces come together in one package or do you have to buy e/ piece seperately? TIA
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