Cake Decorating

Ganache to Cover ONLY

Hi everyone, Im wondering how much ganache i need (in grams) to cover a 7 inch cake? I do not need it to fill the cake just cover it. Anything I can find is for filling and covering?
Thank you all very much in advance

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I wrote a spreadsheet to figure things like that out because I couldn’t find a tool with enough options out there already (paid or otherwise). Will be interested if anyone else knows of one. For a 5mm coating on a 7" round cake, 3" height my calc says 630g ganache. That’s roughly 400g choc to 200ml cream at a 2:1 ratio. There is a little extra in there as an allowance to make sure I don’t run short. Hope that helps xx

That’s brilliant thank you very much. :)