I’m an etiquette expert – there’s a ‘correct’ way to eat cake & you’re probably doing it wrong
ALTHOUGH it’s challenging to resist the urge to devour a cake in front of you, an elegant lady must restrain herself.
According to one etiquette expert, different cakes require a different approach to eating them.
Lucy Challenger is well-versed in all things etiquette.
In her recent TikTok, she covers the different eating styles necessary for each kind of cake.
First, she covers pound cake.
“If you are served a dry cake such as a pound cake, you would tear it into small bite-sized pieces with your fingers and then neatly eat with your hands,” she explains.
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From dry to moist, Lucy uses utensils to eat her cheesecake.
She says most moist cakes often require you to use both a fork and a spoon, but it’s not always necessary.
“For example an ice cream cake… the fork is used to hold the cake and the spoon is used to cut and convey the food to your mouth,” Lucy demonstrates.
If the cake was a custard cake, Lucy explains how you would use a spoon to eat the cake and a fork to eat any berries on the plate.
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“Pie or crepes served à la mode with either fork or spoon or both,” Lucy says.
For a more hard dessert, Lucy uses a poached pear as an example.
These types of desserts require the purposes of a spoon and a fork to be switched.
“The spoon would now be used for cutting, and the fork would be used to bring the poached pear to your mouth,” she explains.
A birthday cake is different.
Since a layered birthday cake is most likely to be placed on your plate upright, Lucy says you must use your fork and spoon to lay it on its side.
Once the cake is on its side: you can use a fork or a spoon to eat it.
A dessert fork is designed differently from a normal one.
Lucy shows how a dessert fork has a thicker outside edge to help cut it.
She then proceeds to demonstrate how she would eat her cheesecake in front of her.
“I take my dessert fork, I cut into the cheesecake separating a small bite-sized portion, and now depending on the density of the cheesecake, I spear the cheesecake with my fork and then place it into my mouth to eat,” she says.
Lucy continues to say: “If the cheesecake is not as dense you can cut into it from the top using the tines. You can then scoop the cheesecake up and again eat in one bite-sized neat portion.”
While Lucy suggests setting your fork down between bites of cheesecake, some viewers find that difficult.
“I find the most challenging part about cheesecake is having time between bites to set the fork down,” one commented.
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But one viewer admitted they already practice this type of etiquette.
“Not me doing all this anywhere everywhere,” they wrote.