Rai Mincey is a food writer and baking enthusiast whose focuses include culinary history, seasonal cooking, and Southern cuisine. She splits her time between Birmingham, Alabama, and Tulum, Mexico.

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 ...

Use a red Solo cup: Just sort of jam it in there. Slice it vertically: Carve the cake into slivers, like you’d cut a spiral ham. Shave it with a Mach3 razor: Run the blades along the icing as close to ...