9Honey Kitchen Hacks: Tower cake cutting hack

We've all the been the person at the birthday party tasked with cutting an epic looking tower cake. It's intimidating, it's nerve wracking and it is always, always, always messy. Ending in disaster when the upper tiers slide off the lower ones prompted by that one person who always asks for 'just a small piece'.

Well, for today's 9Honey Kitchen Hack the cake cutting tick is here to save you a bunch of trouble - especially when you get that inevitable request for 'just a small slice'.

What we all need is a nifty trick that makes us feel like a cake cutting expert - and this is it, but it might not be exactly what you expect, because it won't give you traditional wedges. That's a good thing though, because it's a wedge that causes all the usual cake cutting trouble.

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It's not a new tick, it's not rocket science, but it will change the way you slice cake next time everyone is lining up and that task falls to you. So, stop shaking in fear and stressing out about the slices and check out the video above for the niftiest skill you can master for any celebration where there's an epic cake.

Or read on for tips on how it's done.

The trick is to slice your cake straight across instead of only to the middle and pull out a slice. That's right, slice right across. You'll need to start by taking off the curved edge closest to you.

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Once you have a flat surface, take a cutting board, sit it up against the flat piece of cake and slice directly across the cake again so that you remove a whole, big flat surface of the cake. Tip it onto the board and lay it down flat, then you can cut top to bottom and end up with tall matchsticks of cake that serve up easily, beautifully and are as big or as small as you want. This will help your cake go further, cut smaller (when needed) and it looks super cute on the plate.

It will make cake cutting so much less stressful. And cake should always, always, always be fun.

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