[Avodah] taking off chalah from cake dough

[Samuel Svarc]

>From: "kennethgmiller at juno.com" <kennethgmiller at juno.com>
>Subject: Re: [Avodah] taking off chalah from cake dough
>
>R"s Gershon Dubin, Mordechai Cohen, Samuel Svarc, Arie Folger, and
>Ilana Sober all seemed to say that it is unlikely to reach the shiur
>for challah when one bakes at home.
>
>But the article from Rabbi Dovid Heber of the Star-K, at
>http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/kk-issues-challah.htm, which RMC had
>pointed us to, says that the shiur by bread is 12.25 or 16.5 cups of
>flour, while for mezonos it's only 8.66 cups. So I'm wondering what
>their point was. In other words, it seems to me that anyone who has
>to take challah from the bread they bake is even MORE likely to have
>to take challah from the cake they bake.

>From a cookbook I had at hand. About four cake recipes require at the
most 1 and 1/2 cups of flour. Basically the same for cookie recipes.
Four of them required at the most 2 cups, with a yield (at the lowest)
of 20 cookies.

Unless you're going to bake commercially (very, very large family;
mishloach manos; simcha) you're not going to run into any problems.

KT,
MSS