To ask what cutlery you eat cake with?

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Dh thinks it doesn't matter what cutlery you use. It does, it's a fork! A spoon is for soup and ice cream.

I cannot enjoy my cake using a spoon, it's not right.
Chocolate fudge cake incase anyone's interested

We have cake forks - we’re fancy us 😂

Your DH is a heathen.

Spoon, how else do you eat the cream otherwise? And I want cream with all deserts, lots of it. (I'd probably drink it if served with an fork tho)

Cake fork, normal fork if that’s the only thing available

Cake fork… if one isn’t available then a starter fork from my fancy set.

@Berta81

Trough

Yup. Chubby fingers used to eat cake from the trough.

@SweetPotatoDumpling

Does it actually really matter? Really? 🤷‍♀️

Oh yes it does. My OH insists on using a table spoon for soup and puddings such as apple crumble and custard instead of a soup spoon and dessert spoon. If we were married I’d consider it grounds for divorce.

A fork and if there’s a choice quite a delicate fork preferably a cake fork.

@Berta81

Trough

Budge up a bit and make room please

In a formal setting, you'd use both a fork and a spoon but otherwise, just a fork.

A shovel - I like a large slice.

In France they eat all cakes with a teaspoon, called a coffee spoon...

After 25 yrs I am used to it now but for several years the sight of grown men eating cake with a teeny tiny spoon baffled me.

I am glad to see things haven't changed in the UK.

OTOH French people think you look rude eating cake with your hands, kind of like you are shovelling it in

Cutlery??

I usually just bury my face in it!

Straight off the plate like a dog 🤣🤣

Fork, we don’t own cake forks.

Oh and you can't seem to get soup spoons and dessert spoons... It's either teaspoons for cereal, cake etc or great big serving spoons.

Cutlery?!
Fingers, surely.

Every day is a school day. In 47 years, I've never heard of a cake fork. Mind you, until I met my wife, I'd never seen anyone eat a proper cake (not some kind of dessert) with cutlery. Always fingers when growing up, and I didn't change for my wife because I'm totally uncouth like that.

To deal with excesses of cream, buttercream or any other yummy filling or topping, one just runs one's finger around the plate picking up the cream. Or if not in polite company (or at least as polite as I'm allowed to be in) I just lick the plate. Job jobbed. The lick technique is also perfect for crumbs.

Cake fork or normal fork. Currently normal forks in this house as I haven't got round to buying cake forks yet.

I use a teaspoon

Fingers if it’s dry-ish, fork if it has too much filing, fork and spoon if it’s really pudding-y I guess.. but never just a spoon.

Fork defo. I would even use a fork with icecream; and even clotted cream.

Runny cream or custard fair enough you need the spoon. But theres something about a spoon which I feel changes the taste.

Less aeration perhaps? You can tell I have thought about this

The box it came in

Whatever comes to hand when I open the cutlery drawer.
As long as the objective is achieved, I'm not bothered how.

"In France they eat all cakes with a teaspoon, called a coffee spoon..."

I inherited cake forks and tiny cake spoons. It does make you feel dainty using them. I like a spoon to scoop up the cream with.

A pastry fork - I have some lovely silver ones but they do require work to keep them shiny.

You can buy left handed ones here www.leftshoponline.co.uk/shop/left-handed-cake-fork/

However, traditionally they were only right handed as being left handed was a sign of the devil's influence. (No I am not making that up both DM and I had our left hands tied to our chairs at school to get us to write with our right).