Ready to learn how to cut a round cake? Do you know how to cut the perfect piece of cake? There has to be a better way for cake cutting than just making rectangular slices over and over again.
The best way to cut a cake
The best way to cut a round cake is to first cut a round circle about 2 inches in from the outer edge of the cake. Then you cut that outer circle into pieces that are about 1/2 inches.
This leaves you with a round cake that is 6 inches, and that you will just cut into slices.If your round cake is a larger size, like 12 inches or 16 inches, well you would repeat the first part where you cut a circle 2 inches in and then cut it into pieces. Repeat this until you get down to the 6 inches again! How easy is that? The inner part can be sliced into about 12 wedges!
See the steps in more detail
- 1.Select a knife that’s big enough to cut across the entire round cake. For example, if the diameter of your round cake is 10 inches (25 cm), your knife should be at least that long. If you’re unable to find a knife as long as the diameter of your cake, choose one that’s as long as possible.If your knife isn’t as long as the diameter of your cake, you’ll need to slide the knife along the top of the cake in order to make a complete line in the frosting.
- 2.Soak your knife in warm water before using it to cut your cake. Fill a tall glass with warm tap water. Place your knife inside the water and lean it against the edge of the glass. Leave your knife in the water until you’re ready to cut your cake. When you’re ready to cut the cake, take the knife out of the glass and wipe the water off with a tea towel.You’ll need to make sure your glass is tall enough to hold the knife you’re using.
- 3.Use your knife to score a line through the middle of the cake. Hold your knife above the cake with both hands. Hold the handle with your dominant hand and the tip of the knife with your non-dominant hand’s fingertips. Place your knife across the entire cake, going through the middle of the cake. Use a rocking motion with the knife, from the tip to the handle, to score a straight line across the cake.Press into the frosting to score the line, only until you read the first layer of cake. Do not cut into the cake itself.
- 4.Score a second line at a 70-degree angle to the first line. Start the second line from the middle of the first line. Move your knife so that the second line is at a 70-degree angle to the first line, which should create a piece that is about 1/3 of that half of the cake, or 1/6 of the entire cake.The first 2 lines have now divided the cake into 3 pieces.
- 5.Created a third line through the middle of the smaller triangle. One half of your cake will look like it’s made of 2 triangles, one larger than the other. The third score line should divide that smaller triangle exactly in half, from the middle.The first 3 lines have now divided the cake into 4 pieces.The 2 smallest pieces will be the size of all the final pieces.
- 6.Score 2 more lines to divide the larger triangle into 3 pieces. The next 2 score lines will divide the larger triangle piece into 3 even sections. From a technical perspective, each of the 5 resulting triangle pieces should have an approximate 36-degree angle.This entire process is based on estimating the size of the slices, but you’re aiming to make all the pieces equal in size.
- 7.Use your knife to extend the 4 half-lines across the cake. One half of the cake is now scored into 5 pieces. Only 1 of the lines scored so far goes across the entire diameter of the cake. Four of the lines scored so far only go halfway across the cake. Use your knife to extend those 4 half-lines so they go across the entire diameter of the cake.The final result of this process will divide the round cake into 10 even pieces.If you have more than 10 people to serve, you can cut each of the 10 pieces in half to produce 20 even pieces.
- 8.Cut your cake along each of the score lines to create 10 even pieces. Dip your knife in the warm water and wipe it off with a tea towel in-between each cut you make in the cake. Use your knife and cut through the entire cake following the score marks you’ve made. Cut from the middle point of the cake for each slice.Pull the knife out of the bottom of the cake slowly.Scoop up each piece of cake with an offset spatula after it’s cut, or wait to start handing out cake pieces once the entire cake is cut.
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Post time: Jun-06-2022