Do you have a methodology or protocol for cutting a 9x13 cake in pieces for serving?
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April 6th, 2015
All my life a 9×13 cake was cut into either 12 or 15 pieces – two long cuts, and then either 3 or 4 short cuts. Eaten from corner to corner starting on one 9” end.
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Over Easter I saw an adult commit the heresy of walking up to ½ an uncut cake and just hacking a piece out of the middle!!
MY S/O will walk up to ⅔ of an uncut cake and hack a random 5×5” square out of it, not only ruining the symmetry, but exposing about ½ the cake to the stalemaking air!
Please weigh in on this important and contentious issue. Should I have to shorten a cake’s shelf life by cutting the whole thing as soon as it’s cool? Honestly, we brought about ⅓ of the cake home and it looks like a jigsaw cake, ⅓ put together.
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No but some people like the ends and some may like the middle. If there are not a lot of people eating the cake, the pieces don’t necessarily have to be small. To each his own. I guess if your SO wants a big piece and there’s not a big demand on that particular cake, it’s not a problem if she has a big piece.
Yeah. Bake a round cake. Partitioning one is easy.
If I’m just slicing it for everyone I do the three long cuts and 4 cuts across, unless I need more pieces then it might be three long cuts and 5–6 across.
If I’m just taking a piece for myself and the ends have too much icing I’ll go right in the middle if some other pieces have been removed already. If it’s brownies I want a corner.
@ibstubro – that’s funny.
I cut a center piece out once when I was a teen – I caught hell for doing so, but it was a really good cake.
All I can say is to quote Marie Antoinette… link
Dude, you’re gonna have to preslice it or have a designated cutter slice it up before serving takes place. (Or eat it all by yourself before you leave the house, hee hee!) I always slice a cake that size with two up the middle and three crosswise for twelve pieces.
I want a cup cake. Cup cakes are not evil. Just cakes are.
My protocol for handling the absurd idea of “sharing” a cake is to remove it from the sight of my fellow addicts. It’s pretty much the same etiquette as would be involved with “sharing” a crack pipe. Of course the urgency involved varies in intensity with the quality of the cake, as well as the relative stages of addiction exhibited on the part of would be participants.
It was a pot-luck carry-in type thing, so I only cut ½.
There were 2½ slices and ½ a cake. She walked up and hacked a piece out of the middle. My S/O’s sister, BTW, if that clarifies things.
Obviously growing up 2 adults and 7 kids in a household with no one who liked to cook made a 9×13 cake first-come, first-serve-yourself.
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