A sheet cake or slab cake is a cake baked in a large, flat, rectangular cake pan. Apple stack cake cakes are usually 2 inches deep, although they are sometimes 3 inches deep. These single-layer cakes are frequently frosted, with decorations and ornamental frosting along the borders and the flat top surface. Sheet cakes may be made in any flavor, with chocolate and vanilla being the two most common.
A layer cake may be made from a sheet cake that has been split, filled with jam or icing, and frosted. In the United States, these cakes are commonly available in supermarkets and bakeries and tend to be inexpensive due to their simple manufacturing process. Cake sizes are named after the size of pan that the cake is baked in. A full-size commercial sheet cake pan is 18×24 or 18×26 inches in size. A half-sheet is half that size, and a quarter-sheet or 9×13-inch pan, which usually results in 16 to 24 servings of cake, is one-quarter the size. Sheet cakes, in general, are usually two or three inches deep.
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