Is it even a party without cake? Yeah... we don't think so either. But it's hard to know just how much cake you're going to need. Some people aren't cake eaters at all, while others want all the cake.

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 ...

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 ...