By Candace Braun Davison, Delish
If you asked 100 people to
cut a cake, 99 of them would likely slice the cake into even
triangles*. It's an all-too-common practice, and as math has proven, it's not always the most efficient way to go about it (particularly if you plan on having leftovers). But what about the flip side — the birthday party
your kid's entire fourth grade class attended, despite half of them
never RSVPing? Or when your second, third, and first-twice-removed
cousins drop by a cookout unannounced?
[post_ads]Or, heaven forbid, you make your world-famous fudge cake
— the cake you've been dying to eat all day — only to have those
ingrates called friends announce "oh, a smaller piece than that!" and
only eat two bites?
In all three scenarios, there's one simple solution: this cake-cutting technique. Australian baker Katherine Sabbath, known for her neon drip cakes and for helping usher in the unicorn trend
back in 2015, posted an Instagram video of a friend slicing into one of
her treats. For the first time ever, people weren't as mesmerized by
the cake itself as they were how it was sliced.
Sabbath's friend makes horizontal slices across the cake, flipping the
one-inch thick slab of cake onto a cutting board. From there, she cuts
it into one-inch strips, creating columns of cake. Using this technique,
a cake that'd normally serve 6 to 8 (when sliced into triangles) can
serve 30. Sure, they're getting smaller pieces, but you can always go
back for seconds. Or thirds.
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It's been watched almost 1.3 million times in a little more than a week,
and though the technique may seem odd, it's one professional bakers and
caterers often use at weddings to make it easier to divvy up larger
layer cakes, like this:
Check out the full technique, which commenters are calling "game changing," here:
*As for that one rogue person, well, there's a rebel in every bunch. He or she may know this trick — or they just relish in hurting you deeply with every slice.
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