As iconic and beautiful as the movie star herself, Grace Kelly's royal wedding cake featured plenty of astonishing details.

This cake-cutting method might seem unconventional at first, since most of us are used to just slicing in triangles from the center, but bear with us.

Bake a cake in a 13-by-9-by-2-inch pan; cool and remove from pan. (The cake will be easier to handle if you refrigerate it for a while before cutting.) Cut a rectangle approximately 10 inches by 3 ...