soapdragon Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Somehow, and I'm really NOT sure how, I have ended up agreeing to make, marzipan and ice a fruit cake for Mum's 80th in November. I know that I really should be making a start now so it can mature and a friend has given me her failsafe family recipe (used sine 1974!) Said recipe gives quantities of each ingredient for varying sizes but not how many each size will feed Can anyone help with this please? It needs to feed 40 comfortably with a little left over (ideally!) Would a 10 square be too big? (I have decided on a square for ease of marzipanning/icing and cutting!) Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 This website has a portion calculator on it http://www.sweetsuccess.uk.com/portion_guide.asp Hope it helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted September 8, 2013 Author Share Posted September 8, 2013 That's brilliant! Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Try Lindy Smith's website which has loads of recipes and also a table for adapting for different sizes. She's also not far from us, Soapdragon, in Aylesbury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted September 8, 2013 Author Share Posted September 8, 2013 Thanks, Patricia. There is also a very good cake dec shop in Thame which I shall visit for....... decs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Just bare in mind these two things.........you can never have too much cake and never be mean with cake.......... Gets round my total inability to cut small slices of cake. I always make cakes larger than the suggested size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Round cakes are much easier to ice (if you are using roll-out sugar paste) than square cakes, because you don't have the challenge of the corners. An 11 inch round cake is the same size as a 10 inch square. An 11" round cake will use double the ingredients for an 8 inch round cake. Hope that helps Hazel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
