4 Layer 6" Cake Enough For 8-10 People?
Decorating By Cake_Geek Updated 12 Oct 2006 , 5:23pm by CakeDiva73
I checked the wilton serving guide and it said a 2 layer 6" cake could give 12 servings! I can't believe this. I only need 8-10 servings out of it and am goign to try my hand at a beer mug so I was thinking 4 layers. This should be enough or should I do four 8" layers?
I would do the 8 inch cake. The 6 inch is really small,
Are you sure you weren't looking at the 8 inch guide? I just checked one of my wilton books and it says 6 servings for a 3 inch high cake that's been torted and filled or 8 servings for a 4 inch high cake. I can't really see getting more than 8 servings out of a 6 inch cake. Now, if I'm picturing a beer mug and you're going to make it 4 2 inch layers (meaning a high cake) then you could basically split it in half and have 12-16 servings depending on how you cut it.
Consider that if you use 8 inch pans to make a beer mug, you're going to have to have quite a few layers to make the proportions look right. You'd end up with a lot of cake! If you're worried about servings, what about making a few extra cupcakes?
Are you sure you weren't looking at the 8 inch guide?
I looked at the guide here in the articles section. It said 24 for the 8". I figured something was weird. I thought about doing an 8" round but I'd probably have to do 5 layers to get the right proprtions which would be more cake than necessary.
What if I did four 8" rounds and just trimmed it some to be one of those fatter beer mugs (narrower at the top and bottom) so I wouldn't need more layers for height?
I have been doing all 6" and 4" cakes and mine are torted and they seem to be really high cakes. I have a family of 5 and we have gotten 10 servings out of the 4 " because the cake is so high the pieces are longer...I am just a newbie but this is the way mine turned out.
This is my very favorite size cake to make...it is really cool looking because it is so high in comparison to the diameter. It serves 8 good sized pieces easily. I level my cakes in the pan so the cake alone is 4" and then I torte, fill and frost so they end up being a bit higher. 
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