After slicing up a sheetcake into 2.5 in blocks to make baby blocks, all the pieces were not totally uniform in size. Probably good enough, but I teach math so asymmetry really bothers me! Is there a large cutter that you can place over the top of the sheetcake and it even cuts squares and circles?
You know those apple corer slicers? Where you place this big metal cutter over the apple and it cuts out the core and makes even wedges. Kinda like that (although I want the center).
Is there such a thing? If not, anyone want to invent it, I'll buy it!
I drew up a protype in powerpoint and am attaching. so it has an edge with cutting blades in the center so you just hold over a 9x13 sheetcake and press down. Presto, perfect squares and circles. Is there such a thing?
This probably won't help you. When my sheet cakes are iced, I purchased this template that you lightly press into the cake. It marks exactly where to cut slices. My mother-in-law marks the bottom of her pans then uses dental floss to cut into the cake.
It is helpful, I've thougt of that, but I tripled torted each of the cakes, so I don't want to ice before I cut since I need to put a frosting dam around each layer and fill with chocolate. Clearly I can't fill and then cut........
I could try just putting a little frosting on the top, just enough to see the impression. I'll have to get an impression mat... I've always wanted one.
sounds like a neat invention.........I always just start in the center and make one cut all the way down and then cut the center of one side and then the center of another side and so on.......inadvertently you end up with people that want a smaller or larger size than you're cutting anyhow.......so I think sometimes people like that they're not all perfectly even.....but I am like you....not a math teacher but definitely all about symmetry LOL It bugs me when the cake slices are soooooo different in size.
I also rationalized that some people might want a smaller piece, but I want to look professional and it would look better if they were all the same size. It would also help if the silly things didn't shift around when you tried to frost them, thus making the sides lean... grrr.
Tupperware used to make a cake cutter. You just held it over the cake and pushed down and it cut perfect squares. It had a handle so you could then serve the piece.
I love your idea though for the "new invention". My husband is a welder, I'll have to see if he can come up with anything!
Okay...I asked my husband...he said if you take your drawing (with exact measurements) to a sheet metal place, they can fabricate it to you. Not sure if there is anywhere around you like this...but it can be made out of stainless steel and laser cut (very thin and precise). It would also be food safe.
This is probably more than what you were looking for but thought I would pass along the info.
this may not be exactly what your looking for but I think it is close Go look around a hardware store - you know they've got to have something that would work. When I'm doing something similar with rounds, I use my Pampered Chef measuring thing. I hate it for measuring anything other than Crisco, but love it for cutting cake because you can push the cake back out without grief.
Jackie64`that's a great idea about the PC measuring cup. I'll have to try it!!!
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