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As people ask for wedding and other celebration cakes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, cutting the cake can be more difficult that it first sounds.

Some General Rules to Follow

1. Remove all inedible decoration.
2. Where decoration on the cake will clearly not be cut through, you should gently remove that element of the decoration.
3. Wipe the blade of a sharp saw-like knife with a warm damp cloth (repeat before cutting each slice).
4. Cut the cake in slices with a gentle sawing action – Do not attempt to force the knife through the cake as it will destroy the texture.
5. Cut the cake into slices with a gentle sawing action from the centre outwards.
6. Sizes – The standard size for Fruit cake portions is 1”x 1” whereas for other fillings the size is to be 2”x 1”.

There are some cakes now where the above instructions would still have you scratching your head. For example the Helter Skelter cake, which appears to be a solid cone of cake. This, and other similarly shaped cakes, are usually made up of a number of tiers of cake stacked one on top of each other, supported by a board at each level and carved to give the cone effect.

To cut this type of cake follow the instructions above being careful to draw your knife through the cake feeling for the supporting board beneath each tier. Once you’ve found the supporting board draw your knife around the circumference releasing the sugarpaste from the tier below and then lift off the release tier and slice as normal.