Sheet Cakes

A staple of birthday parties, corporate events and basically, anywhere you’re feeding a lot of people dessert, sheet cake is a ubiquitous treat. It’s baked in a flat, rectangular baking pan and the resulting cake is usually between two to three inches thick. It’s long and wide like a sheet - hence the name. A sheet cake or slab cake can be grouped into two broad categories. American sheet cakes are usually 2" (5 cm) deep, although they are sometimes 3" (8 cm) deep. These single-layer cakes are frequently frosted, with decorations and ornamental frosting along the borders and the flat top surface. Several kinds of sheet cake are also part of traditional German cuisine. They are typically not iced or decorated for a specific celebration as American sheet cakes are and may use any kind of dough such as yeast-leavened or sponge.