Will a seven layer cake be enough for 150 guests?

Question

My cake is going to have three round tiers and four heart shape sides. Will this be enough cake?

Answer 1

Depends on the size of the tiers...
If you are having seven 6" tiers....no.

For Reference:
6" Tier Feeds 4-6 people
8" Tier feeds 6-10 people
10" Tier feeds 10 -16 people
12" Tier feeds 15-25 people
14" Tier feeds 25-35 people

So add up the amount of people that each tier will feed based on your cake's sizes and you will know.
Generally, assuming your cake has a large bottom tier to support all that cake, it will feed your 150 guests and probably all of their distant cousins too!

*If you are looking into getting a cake this size just for look, I would suggest make some of the layers "fillers", which is just fake cake decorated to look the same. But if you are worried about not having enough cake to feed everyone, sometime there will be sheet cakes (made from the same excat ingredients as the main cake) and is cut up and served (since cutting the main cake is time consuming, the sheet cakes get people served faster) and thus you wouldn't require such a large tiered cake.
Good luck on the cake of your dreams!

Answer 2

Depending on the size of your layers, 7 layers will be overkill for feeding purposes... you will end up with ALOT of leftovers.

Typically speaking, 2 or 3 layers should be more than enough. If you want 7 layers for the looks, use "fake" cakes for the other 4 or 5 layers. These are foam cakes cut to the size and shape you want, then decorated to match your real cakes with real frosting and flowers, etc.

Talk to your baker about how many servings you can expect per layer.

Answer 3

There's really no way to answer if you don't know the dimensions of the tiers.
Obviously a baker is making this cake for you. A professional should be able to tell you how many people it will serve. In fact, in many if not most parts of the country, wedding cake is sold on a per-slice basis.

Answer 4

Are you serving a meal, too? We had a 3 layer cake for 100 people (roughly 14", 10", 6") - and we had a LOT left over because everyone was so full from dinner.

Our bottom layer was chocolate (the "grooms" cake), the other two were white with bavarian cream filling and of course we saved the top layer. Even still, had a LOT left over!!

Answer 5

Go to a bakery and ask what is the appropriate size cake for serving 150 people. It seems when people ask questions here about cake size for serving a number of people that's a question to ask a professional baker not here since they deal with large scale party cakes and they can tell you how many tiers will serve a specific number.

Answer 6

go to this site: http://www.wilton.com/wedding/cakeinfo/choosing/150_200.cfm
it shows what combos of tiers (shapes and sizes) that will fee 150 - 200 people.


go to this one too: http://www.wilton.com/wedding/cakeinfo/cakedata.cfm
it will show servings for different sizes and shapes.


so if you have 3 round cake sizes 8", 9", and 10" that will serve 94 then add four 6" heart shape cakes that all adds up to serving about 150 people. you can play around with sizes and shapes and how many of each to get the total you want!
God Bless!!

Answer 7

That will be more than enough! I had about 200 people at my wedding, and I had a three-tiered cake. I didn't save my top layer though... I just let people eat it.

Answer 8

it sounds like it will be plenty. If you want to be positive, call a bakery and just ask them what size rounds they would use to serve that amount of people and compare the amount they give you to what you are making.

Answer 9

Depends on how big the cake is..

Answer 10

Kill the cake get Taco Bell and a Keg! Works every time.