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.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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A little spoon ("tea spoon")
I eat most things with a spoon, but not a regular spoon, a teaspoon. But not ass.
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
Yup and the deeper the spoon the worse it is! Agreed
Mostly with my hands, otherwise with a fork.
Gotta agree. What kind of aristocrats are we dealing with here who eat cake with cutlery? 😁
I use a mini-fork (dessert fork?)
People who prefer using a spoon for (non ice cream) cake are the type of people who make a song and dance out of succumbing to temptation when they order it.
I almost never use a fork for anything, spoon for sure. 95% of foods I eat with spoon, chopsticks, or hand.
I knew a guy like that. We went to a restaurant together and he ordered a salad, and started eating it with a spoon.
Normally, when a person does something unusual, I don't say anything, but I was surprised. It had never even occurred to me that a salad with broad leaves could be eaten with a spoon.
So slightly taken aback, I said to him, "Why aren't you eating a salad with a fork?" And he replied, "I am accustomed to eating with a spoon."
Spoon, so I can completely clean my plate. Also prevents crumbs from falling.
I prefer a spoon, but I've found that for most cakes a spoon isn't long enough to take a proper vertical bite
Spork! Obviously!
Spoon normally, any cake I stab with a fork falls off so I might as well use a spoon.
Spoon keeps more of the cake on it.
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.
Umm, does this count? I carved it myself, and sometimes actually use it..
Butter knife and fingers in casual situations, fork in semi- and formal situations.
Depends on the cake:
Hard to cut with a spoon: fork
Anything else: spoon
Spoon