How do you eat one of these?!

[JackieTheFart]

Without getting cream and icing everywhere?!

I tend to grab and bite as even slicing it into bite size pieces squashes it too much!

Is there a way of eating it that I’m missing, that won’t leave me looking like a toddler at a tea party?!

Flip it on its side and use a fork. Still messy but it doesn’t squash everywhere

Put it on its side and then use a sharp knife.

We have a patented technique for eating these - you have to nibble from halfway up the custard into the top piece of pastry, then eat the corresponding bit at the bottom.

I want one now!

On your own.

As pp’s said, you put it on its side and then cut it into bite size pieces with a sharp knife.
Or, if you are alone and can forget ‘naice table manners’, you cut off the iced top layer of the cake, leaving a small layer of cream on it and eat that first. Then you eat the remainder of the cake.

Eat the top first then the custard bit after, still messy but no oozing.

I pull through top off and eat that first then eat the creamy bottom.

You don't! It collapses, the cream goes everywhere and you lick it off your fingers!

Spear it forcibly with a fork in the middle to break into two pieces. It will then be easier to eat smaller pieces.

In one bite.

Lay on its side, then slice the custard/cream in half. Then you flip the iced side over so the icing is on the bottom.

You now have two pastry sheets with a custard topping, can eat with cutlery (I like to slice into bite sized pieces) or pick up.

Always eat the iced half last because that's the best bit.

I pull the bottom off eat that, and then eat the top with the cream

I take out the cream (don't really like it), stick it back together and then eat delicious!

With a pastry fork.

@FadedRed

As pp’s said, you put it on its side and then cut it into bite size pieces with a sharp knife. Or, if you are alone and can forget ‘naice table manners’, you cut off the iced top layer of the cake, leaving a small layer of cream on it and eat that first. Then you eat the remainder of the cake.

No, no, no, no, NO! You leave the top bit with icing till last. Only a philistine eats the best bit first

Use a laser to cut into bite-sized pieces. Only way the cream doesn't squooosh out the sides.

Squish it together, lick the filling round the edges as your squishing then eat once it's a size you can easily bite into

I stuff it in to my mouth whole, as you compress it the cream squirts into your mouth - neatly contained, although sometimes a little may come down your nose!

@tonyunclejohnny

Squish it together, lick the filling round the edges as your squishing then eat once it's a size you can easily bite into

This is how I do it 🤣...but only when nobody is within spying distance 😱

@JackieTheFart

Without getting cream and icing everywhere?!

I tend to grab and bite as even slicing it into bite size pieces squashes it too much!

Is there a way of eating it that I’m missing, that won’t leave me looking like a toddler at a tea party?!

Amazing! I nearly started this exact same thread yesterday.

I used to turn them sideways, and cut with a serrated knife into about 5 pieces, to pop whole into my mouth. But recently, they seem more slippery and just go to to a mush.

In front of people with difficulty, by myself I’d make a mess but ooohhhh lovely

The joy is in the mess. Free yourself of inhibitions and revel in the cream plarping out the sides.

Turn it on its side and eat as normal. No squidging or squishing. DH showed me that one genius

You put it on its side and eat it with a fork...? It never occurred to me to try to cram it into my mouth with my fingers.

I must be more genteel than I thought.