You may be doing it all wrong.
But cutting and serving cake can sometimes be a bit of a messy, fingers-in-the-buttercream affair.
If the ideal triangular cake slice eludes you, you’re not alone.
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There was a smear of buttercream and some crumbs on the outside of the glass.
Note that there’s a similar variation where you use a piece of fishing line instead.
Opt for unflavored dental floss to avoid passing on a touch of mint or cinnamon into your dessert.
The cake slices looked a little more ragged than some of the other cake cutting methods.
Next time, we would combine this method with the vertical cuts for an ideally sliced cake.
Heat up the knife
A hot knife can make slipping through buttercream much easier.
