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Mother’s Day Extravaganza! Zenker Layer
Cake Slicing Kit – Review
Have you ever tried to make those multiple thin layer cakes? Unless you are a professional baker
working in a bakery, it is not easy to get the layers sliced evenly. How can the home baker make
a superb fancy cake like the pros? Let me introduce you to a nnew
ew baking tool. The Frieling USA
Zenker Layer Cake Slicing Kit. . If you like to bake, this should be on your wish list.
The Zenker Layer Cake Slicing Kit contains:
A Slicing mold that fits a 10 to 11 inch diameter cake.
A 12 inch bakers knife.
A 11 inch cake lifter.
Now any home baker can make beautiful 8 layer cakes. This handy slicing mold makes it easy to
cut uniform layers, for filling with frosting, whipped cream, ganache, fruit sspreads
preads and more.

I could not wait to give the Zenker Layer Cake Slicing Kit a try try. . The instructions say you
need to make a cake in a 10 inch Extra Deep Springform pan for the full 8 layers. Or a standard
pan will give you four layers. My springform pan was only 9 inches but I gave it a try. Once the
cake was done and complete cooled, the slicing mold fits around the cake. Slots in the side of
this mold are evenly spaced, so the 12 12-inch baker’s knife can slide in for precision ecision cutting of
layers, first on one side of the cake, then on the other. You have to mark where you started so
you can re-adjust adjust the mold to slice the other side of the cake. Once all the layers are cut, remove
the slicing mold and you use the 11 inch cake lifter to easily remove each layer as you build your
cake. It really could not be any easier. Well in theory anyway!
I had a great time giving the Cake Slicing kit a try. I can honestly say not one bad thing about the
kit itself. The concept and the tools are amazing! The cake I made….not so amazing! I already
had the wrong size pan so the mold kept sliding around. It still gave me even layers! My
springform pan was also the standard size which gave me 4 layers instead of 8, but that was cool
too! The cake lifter made it a breeze to assemble each layer. Loved it. My observations, just from
my cake attempt, is you need a more dense cake recipe. I made a standard box cake and it really
was way too soft of a cake. The slices were uniform and the cake lift lifter er worked great but I was
having difficulty with the frosting, pulling the very soft cake apart in each layer. I was also using
a pre made frosting in a can which made the cake much too sweet. Too much frosting in in-between
in
the layers.

Would I make another 8 Layer cake again? You bet I would! This is one of the best baking
gadgets I have seen in a long time. I just need to get the correct deeper springform pan and a
much better recipe. I think I can do that, I loved hunting for recipes. The frosting needs to be a
richer less sweet type. I am thinking a dense chocolate cake with a dark chocolate ganache with a
touch of raspberry, or maybe a spring time cake, yellow with a peanut butter icing. I will be
baking a fancy 8 layer cake again soon!
Marketed by Frieling USA, the Layer Cake Slicer is made by Zenker, a company that has been
manufacturing bakeware in Germany for over 125 years. It has a suggested retail price of $59.95
and is available at www.frieling.com, www.amazon.com, and www.csnstores.com. It comes with
a 5-year warranty.
Show off your baking talents to mom with the help of the Zenker Layer Cake Slicing Kit. Be
sure to stop by New Age Mama to see her review of the Zenker Layer Cake Slicing Kit.
Disclosure: I received gratis product(s) for the purpose of this review. No monetary
compensation was offered or accepted for this post. The opinions above are my own. Others
experience may vary.