A birthday cake cut into seven pieces against a pink background - Betsie Van Der Meer/Getty Images Every part of a party is fun, but whether it's a birthday, a wedding, or just another beautiful ...

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 ...

“Cutting the cake” is an honor. Whether you’re getting married, retiring, or celebrating a birthday, the task usually falls to a special person on their special day. I’m not one to nitpick the ...

For decades, researchers have studied the cake-cutting problem, which explores how to fairly divide resources, Stephen Ornes reported in “A fair slice?” (SN: 9/9/23, p. 14). The last-diminisher method ...