are full of crumbs, the cake may be old and stale. you want the piece of cake you are about to eat to melt in your mouth so that you don’t even have to chew it. eating stale cake is very unpleasant and can result in the cake tasting like nothing. ask the baker or host when the cake was made to make sure you are about to eat a fresh and delicious piece of cake!
sometimes keeping a cake simple in design can be a good sign that the cake was bought from the local supermarket. those kinds of cakes can taste good, but they won’t be as good as 