As Bellos explains, cutting a triangular wedge from a round cake leaves the cut sides exposed to air, primed to dry out in the fridge overnight (especially if it lacks the protection of a good old ...

Cutting up a cake in front of a hungry horde ... The key is to make rectangular slices out of a round cake. (Gasp!) In the video, her friend is actually doing the slicing, and she is filming ...

The problem to be solved was, “given a round tea-cake of some 5 inches across, and two persons of moderate appetite to eat it, in what way should it be cut so as to leave a minimum of exposed ...

Either way, the letter, titled "Cutting a Round Cake on Scientific Principles," included diagrams showing that the best way to cut a cake. It is this: cut a slice straight through the middle of ...

Instead, Professor Budd advocates a method first outlined by the polymath Sir Francis Galton in 1906 in a letter to the journal Nature, entitled 'Cutting a Round Cake on Scientific Principles'. ' ...

Equipment and preparation: you will need a 7cm/2¾in diameter plain biscuit cutter and a 25cm/9in round cake board. For the ice box coffee biscuits, place the butter and sugar into a bowl and beat ...