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How many people does a sheet cake feed?

If you stumbled upon this post, it’s likely because you searched for the exact question in some search engine. While this post is primarily part of an SEO experiment, I might as well try to answer this question for you. There are really only a couple of variables needed to consider in answering this. For example, how big is your sheet cake? You could call these variables L, W and H. A full sheet cake is 2 ft by 3 ft (or 24 by 36 inches). The next variable to consider is how big do you want the pieces? If it’s about one inch thick (H=1″), then you might want to make the pieces about 2×3 inches. That would be six square inches. Your total cake is 24 x 36, or 864 square inches. Then 864 divided by 6 would give you 144 pieces.

Of course, if the cake was thicker, you could make the pieces smaller, say roughly 1×2 inches which would give you a whooping 432 pieces.  Square pieces at 2×2 inches would still give you 216 pieces. You could easily get away with this if you were also serving ice cream with the pieces.

This is about the lamest post I think I’ve ever written. If you’re wondering why the hell I care about this, the answer is that I don’t. Except that the exact question of the subject line of this post gets searched for almost 2,000 times a day, and there’s very little competition for this keyword phrase. With very little effort, this simple post could possibly bring up to a hundred unique visitors a day, hence boosting a pretty lame PR. Now check out a real article I wrote about the physics behind the thermodynamic drinking bird and then check out my store selling science educational toys.