Cake Recipes For Sheet Cake For Today!
Baking By SherLynn82 Updated 8 Jun 2007 , 6:42pm by thems_my_kids
I am hoping someone has a great recipe for a sheet cake. My pan size is a 12X18 so I am unsure how much cake mix I will need. They requested a chocolate cake and I would be using a box cake mix. I have yellow or devils food. I have never done a cake this size before so I want to make sure I have everything I need before I start.
1. any good recipes for a 12X18 sheet cake
2. Any special baking directions?
3. I have heard about a flower nail, since I dont have the baking strips would I need to use a flower nail?
Thank you! I appreciate any help you can give me!
Sherri
On the wilton batter amount charts, they said a cake pan 12 x 18 needs 16 cups of batter. I made my first 12 x 18 sheet cake last weekend and i only used 14 cups and it turned out fine.....so basically i used 3 boxes of cake mix...only problem i had was getting the cake out of the pan afterwards....it broke on me 
but i fixed it...
if you just got to the Wilton website they have a chart that tells you the batter amounts need, time to bake it, and amount of icing you need.....
good luck!
I bake this size all the time. You should use a flower nail or a heat core -- prepare it just like you do you pan so the cake doesn't stick and place it in the center of the pan. This helps radiate heat from the center out so you will have a cake fully cooked -- not undercooked in the center and overcooked on the edges. You can use either two or three cake mixes. If you use two, it will be about the height of a regular quarter sheet cake. If you use three, it will be a little taller. Good luck!!
You don't need to buy the wilton baking strips...if you take an old kitchen or hand towel and cut it into about 6 inch long strips, fold them in half length wise and safety pin them together for the length of the perimiter all you have to do is wet them enough so they are pretty wet, but not so they are dripping they work better than the baking strips! It is a much cheaper way as well! It does take a longer time to bake, but just keep watching it and doing the toothpick test!
I bake this size more than any sheetcake I make. I would use 3 Devils Food Cake mixes. Preheat the oven to 350. When you put the cake in the oven turn in down to 325. I've not noticed any overbaked edges by doing this. It usually takes about an hour to bake one this size.
I usually use 3 cake mixes to get a 2" high cake, though I do use the baking strips. I always put parchment paper, cut to size, on the bottom of my pan, no matter what size or shape it is, it makes getting the cake out of the pan without breaking it a snap. Just run a knife along the sides, then flip it out, then pull the parchment paper off. Works perfectly everytime.
Steady2Hands- Do you use a flower nail in the center of the cake? If so do I still cook it for about an hour? I always worry chocolate cake boxes will dry out, should I add anything else to it or should I jst go by the box ingredients?
Thank you all!
Sherri
I just baked this i used 2 boxes plus pudding and 2 extra eggs. I got 1 3/4 inch. Thinking of baking it again with a third box.
Keeping this in mind will help.........one cake mix makes about 5 cups of better, maybe a bit more. The instructions that come with the pan usually has how much better it will take to fill the pan. HTH!
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