Birthday cake help required

Please_Help_5

I am making a cake for my daughter's birthday party - there are going to be 27 children there :eek: . I am making a 'castle' style cake - with a square / rectangle cake with swiss rolls in the corners with upside down ice cream cornets on them.

My question is - I have got an 8" square cake tin - will this be big enough for this amount of children or would I be better to make 2 cakes this size and put them together to make a large rectangle cake ?

Thanks.

rockie4

I would say it's big enough, you only need to give them a small piece to take home. For my grandaughter's birthday I did a mermaid using 2 madeira cakes and there was enough to feed 15 kids and several parents.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

An 8" should be fine

If you cut it into 1" x 2" pieces, you will get 32 pieces (enough for left overs :j ) - and thats not counting the "turrets".. wedding cakes are generally cut into 1"x1" pieces (unless you are cake monsters like our family)-so those pieces should be fine...

Rikki

Plenty big enough.

Children have normally eaten so much they only need a little piece of birthday cake to say they've had some.

It sounds fab. How about posting a picture when you've finished. :j

Please_Help_5

Thanks for all your replies - that'll save me making 2 cakes

I'll try and post a picture after the weekend - depends how it turns out though

morganb

If you've got 27 coming, though, might it be an idea to make two cakes ... one as the castle, one just a square cake, you might decide you want to just ice it, which you can cut up and put in party bags beforehand ... I've previously made little buns to put in party bags but got told off by the birthday boy for not giving his friends some of his birthday cake!! This might be a good way round it .. and I'm certainly going to do this next year.

Please_Help_5

morganb wrote: »

If you've got 27 coming, though, might it be an idea to make two cakes ... one as the castle, one just a square cake, you might decide you want to just ice it, which you can cut up and put in party bags beforehand ... I've previously made little buns to put in party bags but got told off by the birthday boy for not giving his friends some of his birthday cake!! This might be a good way round it .. and I'm certainly going to do this next year.

That sounds like a good idea - it will save me rushing to cut the cake up before they all leave :T