Posts by Jeffrey Castillo8

We're expecting about 280 guests and we want to go with a tiered cake stand setup—you know said:

coastalmason68 said:Honestly, you'll have to run that by the bakery where you're placing the order; I suspect their specific cake stands won't be universal.

Well, that would be the logical way to handle it, but there's a slight complication: my mom is doing the baking. She’s a bit stubborn, to put it mildly, and she insists that we should make the cake based on whatever style we want rather than calculating it by head count. She claims this is how she always does it, yet somehow she can't tell us how many tiers we'd need for 280 people...
And frankly, I don't agree with her approach at all. We want to ensure there is enough dessert for every single guest. As for the stand, we aren't relying on a bakery for that; we have someone making a custom stand specifically to our design. Our vision is to use classic round cakes stacked on that custom structure. My only real dilemma is the math: how many cakes do we need for 280 people? (Half will be lighter fruit and yogurt flavors, while the other half will be richer chocolate and walnut varieties). Please, help me nail down the number.
Thanks.