Wedding Cake size?

Our cake is for 50 people and our 3 tiers are going to be 6", 9" and 12" - we trusted our cake maker's recommendations.

Portion sizes are affected by two things, the shape of the cake - you get more with square and the sponge type - you get more with fruit.

Assuming you are ordering a vanilla sponge circular cake and you want the typical portion size of 1"x 2" then you can get

4" - serves 5

6" - serves 12

8" - serves 24

In order to get to 50 servings the bakery is probably offering 1" x 1" portion, so then you get

4" - serves 10

6" - serves 20

8" - serves 40

This portion size however is typically only used for fruit cake. I hope this helps.

Hello,

we are having 10 fruit 8 choc and 6 lemon and this is to feed up and over 80. How much have they said they will knock off ? would it be worth asking other cake makers for costings ? mine is costing 170

Fruit cake serves more than sponge

Hayley

I am not too worried about how many it serves as we are serving it with the buffet and cake add to the portions if needed. I think because i had a plan in my head and that's now changed i've freaked a bit. Like i said we are too fussy on how the cake looks but don't want the over all 3 tier cake to look really little when we come to cut it. So i suppose in a way we are a little bothered how it looks lol, if you know what i mean. They are allowing me to take £200.00 off the package price if we don't have the cake, not talked fruit or sponge yet as i was a bit taken back at the measurements she gave me. Again we weren't too fussed about the price as the package they are now given us is cheaper than what we had booked with our original wedding planner (who left without updating details on our booking contract, i think the venue are just covering their own backs and given us the package so they know exacly what we are getting.)

xx

We are also having ours on a stand so hopefully it will look slightly bigger

Hayley x