Every holiday or occasion is incomplete and tasteless without a nicely baked cakes. Besides every kitchen superstar wishes to bake variety of cakes to make according to the occasion and in such case all cooking stars know that cake layers hold the key to delicious multi-layered cakes. Multi-layered cakes gives a cook variety of options to invent new recipes and add more to it. So in such a case knowing how to cut a cake layer perfectly becomes one of the greatest weapon in your arsenal but doing it with the help of a serrated knife is not always fruitful as things might get messy or create imperfect layers, besides knifes are dangerous which goes without saying. So today we are going to discuss how to cut cake layers effortlessly and perfectly using a simple non flavored floss.
Steps:
- Place toothpicks around the cake layer from where you wish to cut the cake layers. Now take a long non flavored dental floss and wrap it around the boundary created by toothpicks. Use slight knife impressions around the boundary created by toothpicks to embed the floss into it.
- Now cross the ends of floss and use slow tro and fro motion with your hands while holding the floss ends to start the cutting action. At the end you will end up with two cut cake layers. Shift the top cut cake layer using a cardboard or baking sheet in a sliding manner. Congrats you now have two perfectly cut cake layers and that to made without using a serrated knife.
Here's a short video tutorial:
Let us know how was your experience with this method or do you use any other amazing trick to cut cake layers. :)
Happy cake making !
Happy cake making !