Tanner & Gates | Portion Guide

Tanner & Gates

Creative Cakes


Welcome - We are a bespoke cake studio based in central Sydney providing beautifully bespoke or pre-designed cakes. We've worked on events from Royal occasions to children's parties, corporate and initimate adult celebrations. Anything you need a cake for we can help with !


Portion Guide

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For cakes size does matter ! You obviously need to keep in mind how many people will want to have a piece of that cake and also how big a piece you are going to allow them to have. Size also has an influence on the impact that a cake is going to have at your event.
On the whole our cakes have a minimum depth of 10cm. Exceptions to this are fruit cakes made to order and novelty cakes which can vary in depth depending on the design. We include details of the portion numbers for all our cake designs as part of the order process. The standard way of describing portion sizes is to talk about them as either a FINGER PORTION or DESSERT PORTION. We have added a further LARGE PORTION as a guide.
The industry standard for a high quality cake is a finger portion which is 3cm x 3cm x 10cm. This typically is the same amount of cake as a regular cupcake would provide.

A dessert portion would be 2.5cm x 5cm x 10cm as illustrated below and is generally served at an event with some sort of fruit or ice-cream accompaniment for example.

A large portion is for those who want to provide a bigger piece and measures 3cm x 6cm x 10cm.

Our cakes are substantial and satisfying and triple filled and so you need less than say a light victoria sponge style cake. Feel free to cut your cake how you would like as this is just a guide.
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Sample Cake Sizes *
Square Cake

19 fingers / 15 Dessert / 10 Large

6”/ 15cm
Only available as part of tiered cake

25 fingers / 18 Dessert / 12 Large

24 fingers / 20 Dessert / 12 Large

7”/ 17.5cm
This is our smallest single tier cake

32 fingers / 25 Dessert / 16 Large

32 fingers / 25 Dessert / 16 Large

8”/ 20cm

42 fingers / 32 Dessert / 21 Large

42 fingers / 30 Dessert / 21 Large

9”/ 22.5cm

55 fingers / 40 Dessert / 27 Large

53 fingers / 40 Dessert / 26 Large

10”/ 25cm

70 fingers / 50 Dessert / 35 Large

76 fingers / 55 Dessert / 38 Large

12”/ 30cm

100 fingers / 72 Dessert / 50 Large

90 fingers / 75 Dessert / 45 Large

14”/ 35cm

120 fingers / 98 Dessert / 60 Large

130 fingers / 95 Dessert / 65 Large

16”/ 40cm

175 fingers / 128 Dessert / 88 Large

170 fingers / 120 Dessert / 85 Large

18”/ 45cm

225 fingers / 160 Dessert / 110 Large

* sizes are cake sizes prior to decoration being added