wedding cake dilema im making a 3 tier wedding cake and need recipes and cooking times?
I am baking a wedding cake for a friend she wants 3 tiers and have discovered i need to do a 16inch 12 inch and 8 inch cake to give me enough portions for 250 guests i am struggling on cooking times and a good easy fruitcake recipe i may down size the cake yet and produce a slab of cake to cover the excess guests. But help please i am in need of sensible answers other than buy one
I hope this hasn't come too late.
It depends on the design of the cake that will determine the scale of the cake and whether you should go with 3 inches between each tier for example 6,9,12 or 2 " in between 6,8,10.
If for example you have flowers sat on tiers go with a scale of 3 inches as they will need a nice ledge to sit on. This will also allow your slab cakes to be smaller as the tiered cake will yield more portions. Go to my website for portion guides:
http://www.tea-partycakes.com/wedding_pricing.html
Use the celebration chart to determine the slab size you require: http://www.tea-partycakes.com/celebration_pricing.html
Now, I don't know how much time you have to make this but your fruitcakes will take hours to bake. They also need cooling time. So allow at least a day for this process in itself.
If its alcoholic make it as far in advance as possible to allow it to mature. If it's non-alcoholic make it closer to the date as due to there being no alcohol content it doesn't preserve as well.
You will need to scale this recipe up so read beyond the link to follow: Here is a quick, easy recipe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A830341
Scaling up the recipe (based on the 8" round) If you are baking square cakes the 8" = 7" square, 12" = 11" square etc.
multiply recipe by .5 for 6"
by .75 for 7"
by 1 for 8"
1.33 for 9"
2 for 10"
2.5 for 11"
3.25 for 12"
3.75 for 13"4.25 for 14"
All the best!!
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