My cakes are wounderful until i have to cut them! Is there a trick to making the serving process neater? What are your tricks?

hot knife

That sounds simple.

I like to use a large sharp knife. I have also heard that fishing line works great too.

I use the cake cutters from Debbi Meyers...really great.

I've noticed, through years of taking cakes into work for coworkers birthdays, or providing them for small celebrations and being present when they cut the cakes, that most people haven't a clue on how to cut a cake... they try to "press" through the cake by putting hard downward pressure in a single motion and this just squashes the cake, causing fillings/icing to ooze and the cake to be smashed down in height etc... it irks me every time so I've kept the cutting of the cakes to myself so they're not ruined in appearance... when you cut a cake, you should use a serrated knife (ever notice that wedding cake knives have little teeth on them???) and a light sawing motion to make the slices - don't ever just press down through the cake... let the serrations do the work for you... you get neat slices every time and your cake doesn't looked bad after all your hard work. Same thing goes for loaves of bread... I hate it when someone drives a knife down through a nice light, high loaf of bread and squashes it down and compacts the dough... saw saw saw....works like a champ

I never thought about the concept of the saw motion but that makes alot of sense.

jaxcakelady knows her stuff! It all hinges on the serrated knife and the sawing motion. Perfect instructions!

I am so glad to see this I have been guilty of cake and bread squashing in the past!

Wipe the knife after every slice...use paper towel or a clean dish cloth or tea towel

Thanks for the great advice!