Regular cake? A fork.

Ice cream cake? Spoon.

I don't think I've ever eaten cake with a spoon before, sooo... I'm gonna go fork, myself.

I'm not above using whatever is available, but the correct answer is fork.

Yes. Eating it with a knife is just too dangerous and uncomfortable.

Fork for real cake, spoon for ice cream cake.

*holds up spork*

Here in Denmark, it's almost unheard of to use anything but a teaspoon, but personally I prefer a fork.

Depends on the cake. For most cake, either will do, but I prefer a fork. For tres leches ice cream cake, or similar cakes, spoon.

A fork works better for most cakes, but it may depend on the exact consistency.

Fork.

Chopsticks I eat it slower and thus enjoy it more

I don't have a preference, but the rest of my family has very strong preferences. My mom was convinced for the longest time that I was eating with the "wrong" one (I can't remember what the "right" one is for her), so she'd always get me the "wrong" one, which is also what my sister likes. I just went along because I genuinely don't care. Then my mom got very upset one day when I was using the "right" one, cause she was insistent that I always liked the other one. Nah, I just like cake.

I would eat soup with fork if could.

I don't. Preferences set one up for disappointment. I simply use what is offered or whichever has more clean.

Forks for ice cream fresh from the freezer though, they break into it better

Is there ice cream on it or in it? Spoon. Otherwise, fork.

fork

Fork. I hate when the spoon can’t be easily cleaned by the mouth which tends to be the case when it comes to cake. Yuck

It depends on the cake. If there's ice cream, whipped cream, or some other sort of sauce then I'd prefer a spoon.

If it's just cake, I don't super care.

Spoon normally, any cake I stab with a fork falls off so I might as well use a spoon.

This question is why some overly clever and yet still useless fellow invented the spork.

Though, the answer for me is simple. Is Icencream involved? Spoon. No ice cream? Fork.

Neither. What’s wrong your fingers, not bourgeois enough for you?

Spork! Obviously!

Mostly with my hands, otherwise with a fork.

Who the fuck eats cake with a spoon??

chopsticks.

Fork of course, i'm not a barbarian.

Fork for everything that isn't liquid. I actually kinda prefer chopsticks because they keep me from just shoveling shit in my gullet, and I don't eat until I'm super full.

A dainty little fork, for most cakes. I make easy cakes not fancy cakes though. Ricotta cake, yogurt cake, pineapple upside down cake. Not so fluffy, more springy. Sort of a cornbread recipe, modified to make different cakes. So often it's reasonable to cut a wedge and just eat it without a utensil.

Why not combine both, spork, best of both world.

Cakes disintigrate if you try to stab them, and often fall off a fork if you try to balance pieces on it. The socially acceptable answer is fork, but that's for groupthink-following losers who probably went to college and shave every day.

Intelligent people like myself use a spoon.

Butter knife and fingers in casual situations, fork in semi- and formal situations.

I use a mini-fork (dessert fork?)

A little spoon ("tea spoon")

A fork. The spoon is for kids and neanderthals.

Spoon, so I can completely clean my plate. Also prevents crumbs from falling.

I almost never use a fork for anything, spoon for sure. 95% of foods I eat with spoon, chopsticks, or hand.

It seems to always be served with a fork but now that you mention it I think a spoon would be better.

I don't normally eat cake, but when I do it is a fork. If it were pie I would do a fork for apple, but a spoon for blackberry and cherry. If someone offered me a pie that wasn't blackberry or cherry I would re-evaluate my friendship with them.

Umm, does this count? I carved it myself, and sometimes actually use it..

https://lemmy.world/post/43650328

Depends on the cake:

Hard to cut with a spoon: fork

Anything else: spoon

Spoon keeps more of the cake on it.

The noble cake fork: "Am I a joke to you?"

I eat most things with a spoon, but not a regular spoon, a teaspoon. But not ass.

I prefer a spoon, but I've found that for most cakes a spoon isn't long enough to take a proper vertical bite

Spoon

Cake is finger food. I like feeling my food whenever possible before it goes in my face hole. It adds to the experience to me, especially licking my fingers after. Very.. natural feeling. Also a lot easier, usually. Social norms be damned, I'm not stabbing leafs with metal spikes, I’m picking them up with my monkey hands like evolution intended.

But more important than my love of tactile sensations, I’m just not huge on refined sugar. Usually 1-2 tbsp for my ~6 cups of coffee, if I have coffee, and that’s it, so cake is well too much sugar for me to eat any faster than pinch by pinch without getting queasy. Might as well play with it while I’m there. Icing usually has a great texture (tho the increased use of palm oil in place of actual quality oil/butter leaves an oily film on my fingers -and mouth- that I don’t care for), and the variety of cake options are great to explore digitally as well, prior to orally. I find angelfood fascinating.

I don’t eat cake.