KitchenCraftSweetly Does It Cake Slicer, Leveller, Layer Cutter Wire, Carbon Steel Baking Accessory, 40 cm, Silver

Super easy to use and a good addition to the kitchen

Versatile for All Cake Sizes: With its 40 cm width, it’s versatile enough to handle cakes of various sizes. Whether I’m making a small round cake or a large sheet cake, this tool adjusts easily to meet my needs.Professional Results: Every time I use it, I get professional-looking results. My cake layers are even, which makes assembling a layered cake much easier and more aesthetically pleasing.I suggest this item For anyone who loves baking and cake decorating, this tool is a must-have. It has significantly eased the process of cake layering and levelling for me.

This cake slicer does produce nice even cakes but it can be a bit fiddly to use. Starting the cake off is the hardest part, where it can take a huge piece out of your cake if you’re not careful.I found if you start it off really slowly and when you’ve made the first slice, hold the top of the cake while you move it back and forth. I found you had to hold the cake where the slicer is going to come out from otherwise you might risk losing another piece coming out of your cake. This is a bit of an issue as I didn’t really want my hand being sliced with the wire.You can change the setting on it to the height you need. It is a little tricky and I was worried I was going to hurt myself. The wire is so taut, it’s hard to get leverage on it safely to change the setting. There is a knack however! If you hold the cake slicer in front of you lengthways with the side you want to change the setting on against you.. hold the top with one hand and with your index finger and thumb, push the wire away from you. This takes it out of its notch and allows you to move it to the setting you need without fiddling near the wire.I did manage to get even cakes without any injuries. It is a little annoying to store as it’s quite bulky. You don’t want it somewhere there could be an accident so I’ve had to store it on top of the kitchen cupboards.

i have been looking for one of these items fore some time and i have to say that it does a great job for any soft cakes, it is not suitable IMO for any heavy biscuit or fruit cakes as the cutting is done by a piece of wire with ridges along it. good price for the item as the heavy duty one from wilton is alot more expensive and may be more suitable for heavy cakes, cant say for sure but seems much stronger for anybody needing to cut fruit cakes.i have found that the method that works for me is to place the cake on a piece of parchment paper the size of the cake and catching the handle move the cutter from side to side while keeping your elbow and the cutter feet on the table, like a windscreen wiper. the method i found helps me but each to their own off to purchase a second one!march 2011 and i have just purchased another 2 costing almost half the price of the original one reviewed above but this new one states that the wire is serrated and when opened it was plain with no groves and i found that it drags through the cake instead of cutting like the original.pity they had to change the design but hapefully i can purchase original groved wire from kitchencraft.e-mailed kitchencraft on two occasions but no reply. i binned the newer models as they destroy cakes in my opinion. i hope the older one last a little longer as i intend purchasine the heavy duty wilton one in the future, it looks like it will cut fruit cakes also.Ultimate Folding Cake Leveler-

I am absolutely terrible at levelling cakes with a kitchen knife so needed a solution that didn’t make my cakes look like crap. I was sceptical at first as some have said it tears the cake apart and one person compared their cake after using this to Ian’s baked Alaska on bake-off.The cutting wire itself is not sharp and I find you need to use very gentle strokes and a lot of patience so as not to tear the cake. As you can see from the photos the results were amazing (first try as well) finally I have cakes that look professionally cut and will look so much better after they have been iced.For just under £4.00 I’m amazed.

Blade didn't have much guts too it and ripped the cake a bit. Bit too flimsy. Nice size and good for letters/numbers etc but not quite sharp or efficient to not have crumbs everywhere.

I purchased this a couple of months ago and as I’m a home baker who enjoys making celebration cakes I was nervous of using it going off the mixed reviews but today I was making an Easter cake for the house so I wasn’t too worried if it didn’t go right when I used itI can honestly say I shouldn’t of worried it was so easy to use with perfect results as long as you keep the feet in contact with the work bench at all times and move it side to side slowly you will get brilliant results I cut 4 layers in the time it would usually take me to cut 1 using a knife and it was perfectly straight and I know all layers are the same size I definitely won’t be using a knife againI would 100% recommend this product and as usual delivery was quick to

Good for levelling cakes, although you might need to make a little cut with a knife to make it go through straight.