Birthday cake!
Ajocal18
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How many calories would you say are in a generic marble sheet cake with buttercream frosting? I had a small piece 3 inches by 3 inches or so at work for the office birthdays. Not really sure how to accurately log that.
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Search for it in the database and try and see what the average is between them and use one that is similar, although 3 inches by 3 inches doesn't really help us know the size as it could have been 1 cm thick or 1 inch thick.0
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300-400ish0
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Yeah 400ish. Which breaks my heart.0
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400?? sheesh! That is insane. What are they putting in there?0
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »400?? sheesh! That is insane. What are they putting in there?
Have you ever looked at the calories in cupcakes? It's crazy. 400 calories for a vanilla cupcake with buttercream. And it's tiny.0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »400?? sheesh! That is insane. What are they putting in there?
lard?....trans fats? i've always wondered that myself. although where i live, we use crisco to make whoopee pies...and the amish are even worse. lol
but yeah, when i log any walmart cakes i buy for my kids, that's about what it comes out to. for this little piece. lol0 -
I was at Walmart today looking at cakes since my husband's birthday is next Friday August 28 and I don't need to have a cake in the house and my husband is not much of a cake eater but they do sell pieces of cake about that size and if I remember right it was like 340 -380 can't remember just knew it was alot0
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yup...in the neighborhood of 400 calories would be a pretty good estimate.0
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Wow that's crazy! Thanks everyone0
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It's not really crazy. It's sugar and butter. 400 calories easily.0
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Depends on the frosting. When people ask about calories in my frosting, I tell them that if they care about the calories, they shouldn't eat it.
A normal, wedding-size portion is hundreds of calories. A big old double-layer piece can go over 1200.0 -
Depends on the frosting. When people ask about calories in my frosting, I tell them that if they care about the calories, they shouldn't eat it.
A normal, wedding-size portion is hundreds of calories. A big old double-layer piece can go over 1200.
omg i got married last September....(uh, 1 year anniversary coming up, and i'm 35...i think maybe i was too old when i got married...)
we had so much leftover wedding cake...i gave it away, and then my kids told me they hadn't gotten any cake, so i let them eat my top layer that you're supposed to save. i had one piece myself of that, and i tried to log it, but i gave up when i realized it was impossible to log accurately...i just called it 500 calories. lol!0 -
Saving wedding cake is sweet for the sake of tradition, but terrible for the cake. It doesn't keep that long in the freezer! Better to just eat it up while it's fresh, IMO!!!Blueseraphchaos wrote: »Depends on the frosting. When people ask about calories in my frosting, I tell them that if they care about the calories, they shouldn't eat it.
A normal, wedding-size portion is hundreds of calories. A big old double-layer piece can go over 1200.
omg i got married last September....(uh, 1 year anniversary coming up, and i'm 35...i think maybe i was too old when i got married...)
we had so much leftover wedding cake...i gave it away, and then my kids told me they hadn't gotten any cake, so i let them eat my top layer that you're supposed to save. i had one piece myself of that, and i tried to log it, but i gave up when i realized it was impossible to log accurately...i just called it 500 calories. lol!
Happy almost Anniversary!
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Saving wedding cake is sweet for the sake of tradition, but terrible for the cake. It doesn't keep that long in the freezer! Better to just eat it up while it's fresh, IMO!!!Blueseraphchaos wrote: »Depends on the frosting. When people ask about calories in my frosting, I tell them that if they care about the calories, they shouldn't eat it.
A normal, wedding-size portion is hundreds of calories. A big old double-layer piece can go over 1200.
omg i got married last September....(uh, 1 year anniversary coming up, and i'm 35...i think maybe i was too old when i got married...)
we had so much leftover wedding cake...i gave it away, and then my kids told me they hadn't gotten any cake, so i let them eat my top layer that you're supposed to save. i had one piece myself of that, and i tried to log it, but i gave up when i realized it was impossible to log accurately...i just called it 500 calories. lol!
Happy almost Anniversary!
yeah i definitely don't regret eating it....i bake a lot and can't imagine that cake with frosting holds up well.
and thanks! i will not be logging anything that day.....september 12, which is literally the day after my brother's birthday and the day before my uncle's...but you know. lol0 -
Blueseraphchaos wrote: »Depends on the frosting. When people ask about calories in my frosting, I tell them that if they care about the calories, they shouldn't eat it.
A normal, wedding-size portion is hundreds of calories. A big old double-layer piece can go over 1200.
omg i got married last September....(uh, 1 year anniversary coming up, and i'm 35...i think maybe i was too old when i got married...)
we had so much leftover wedding cake...i gave it away, and then my kids told me they hadn't gotten any cake, so i let them eat my top layer that you're supposed to save. i had one piece myself of that, and i tried to log it, but i gave up when i realized it was impossible to log accurately...i just called it 500 calories. lol!
True story:
Mrs. and I were pretty broke shortly after we were married.
My parents came to visit one weekend shortly after our wedding, and we had leftover wedding cake for breakfast, because it was the only thing we had in the freezer.
Apologies to OP for the tangent.0 -
I think the generic entry for sheet cake is 250 for a 2x2 piece, so I agree withe everyone else.0
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Hm... as I recall, we saved our cake, wrapped in plastic and then aluminum foil. It traveled from Wisconsin to Delaware with us, and then was in our freezer until our first anniversary. I actually remembered to take it out in time to thaw, and it was very good, and tasted fresh. We were delighted to follow the tradition.
That was 24 wonderful years ago.
And yes, cake is very calorie dense.0 -
We had a delicious pound cake for our wedding cake. And it was a HUGE cake. At the wedding we ate the middle layer. We had the entire top to save plus the bottom left. We ate cake for a long while. But we found that pound cake freezes beautifully. We had some on our anniversary for the next TEN years! And it was still tasty. Coming up on 25 years end of this year.0
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My wife made a few wedding cakes. After seeing how much Crisco goes into the icing I never touched a piece again.0
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ceoverturf wrote: »Blueseraphchaos wrote: »Depends on the frosting. When people ask about calories in my frosting, I tell them that if they care about the calories, they shouldn't eat it.
A normal, wedding-size portion is hundreds of calories. A big old double-layer piece can go over 1200.
omg i got married last September....(uh, 1 year anniversary coming up, and i'm 35...i think maybe i was too old when i got married...)
we had so much leftover wedding cake...i gave it away, and then my kids told me they hadn't gotten any cake, so i let them eat my top layer that you're supposed to save. i had one piece myself of that, and i tried to log it, but i gave up when i realized it was impossible to log accurately...i just called it 500 calories. lol!
True story:
Mrs. and I were pretty broke shortly after we were married.
My parents came to visit one weekend shortly after our wedding, and we had leftover wedding cake for breakfast, because it was the only thing we had in the freezer.
Apologies to OP for the tangent.
i don't even have that excuse. we're just broke because of the wedding, which happened almost a year ago, and my husband is incapable of working now, and i still gave my kids the cake. lololololol0 -
also, sorry for the absolute derail, i have been doing that ALL NIGHT.
that is what drinking from 3 pm does.0
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