How to Cut Your Cake Like a Professional

Cutting a wedding or luxurious birthday cake to get the most cake out of it is slightly different to cutting indulgent style cake wedges. 

While we love a wedge of cake at the Vanilla Pod Bakery, we work with industry standard cake sizes, so you can maximum the number of cake portions for your mouth-watering wedding or celebration cake.

Professional UK cake makers and caterers tend to work with 1”x1” x height of your cake for wonderful finger size cake portions and 1”x2” x height of your cake for delicious dessert size cake portions. 

I advise cutting finger cake portions for when you are serving the cake as the added extra, and going with dessert portions, when you are serving it as dessert.

There are lots more ideas for how you can serve your cake on our blog here..

Watch the video or follow the steps below to learn how to cut your wedding or birthday cake like a professional: 

Step 1: Using a sharp knife move it 1" from the cakes outer edge and cut vertically. 

Step 2: Gently place this strip of cake on a chopping board and horizontally portion into 1" or 2" size slices. 

Step 3: Repeat the above process until all the cake is cut. 

Bonus tip - To achieve a professional finish wipe your knife clean after every cut. 

Once the cake is cut place the portions of cake on a plate and cover with fold wrap or a cake cover until ready to eat.  It is extremely important to keep the cake covered until needed to avoid the cake drying in the air.