Instructions: Instead of baking separate layers for a cake, you can bake a taller cake and cut it horizontally into two or more very even layers.

STEP 1 - With a long serrated knife, cut a vertical notch on the side of the cake; this will make it easy to line up the layers perfectly when you reassemble them.

STEP 2 - Hold one hand on top of the cake and bend so you can view the cake at eye level. With the serrated knife held perfectly horizontal to the work surface and slowly rotating the cake, cut 1/2 inch into the cake all the way around.

STEP 3 - Continue rotating the cake, using a gentle sawing motion and gradually cutting deeper and deeper into the layer, until you are all the way through. If the cake is fragile, use the bottom of a tart pan to move the layers.

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