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Wedding cakes are a tradition dating back to Ancient Rome and have been a wedding staple ever since. Some believe that sharing wedding cake with friends and family will bring prosperity to a marriage.

The perfect layer cakes assemble with flat, even cake layers. But so often, cakes are domed on top when they come out of the oven. Baking with cake strips minimizes doming, but even the tiniest domes ...

Forget how to cut a cake to ensure all the little gremlins (read: children) get the same-sized piece of cake. Apparently, our biggest worry when it comes to kids’ birthday parties is how to slice the ...

Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the Harvard computer scientist has three children who among them have celebrated more than two ...