how to cut a cake

the middle of the cake is the best piece.

My father could be the only one to desire a piece of cake or brownies in a square or rectangular baking pan, and he will cut in order to receive a large piece straight from the middle. However, he doesn't cut the whole pan, but solely the middle piece he desires after so when the rest of us go to cut, we have to cut around what he cut out and attempt to make it even.

pies and cakes are not cut in even pieces. they are cut one at a time to allow my father to get the largest piece.

This rule goes in tandem with the first in this post. Some people cut the whole pie/cake at once in order to create even pieces; and most people know that in order to cause even slices of pie (if you must cut individually) you start cutting in the middle. Not my father. The knife went in at the point out from the crust that designated how long he wanted the piece and cut in the normal triangular shape of pie pieces, but perhaps wider. For family dessert after dinner for a family of five, this was okay the first time around. But leftover pieces were a crap-shoot. Eventually some poor soul would be left with the final stump piece - a very short and wide slice of pie that was usually like eating nothing but crust. However, you could luck out if it was cake because then it was straight icing with a couple cake crumbs.