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As an Austrian, I love cakes. Let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a good piece of cake? But then, cakes usually contain quite a few calories, and so it is justified to think about this aspect of the pleasure, too. For example, the beauty in the following picture contains 10290 kCal\"Opens<\/a> for the entire cake (I know that because I made the cake and<\/strong> did the calculation). With 14 slices in the cake, this amounts to, yes, 735 kCal per slice – whoa!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black forest cake, my wife’s favorite, made by me (twice a year)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now, if you or I want to know, how many calories a slice of cake\"Opens<\/a> contains, we have to actually calculate that somehow most of the time<\/strong>. In particular, if there is no packaging (from which the cake comes) with nutrition information\"Opens<\/a> on it, that calculation can be an interesting exercise. Now, since lots of cakes are homemade, calculating cake calories is the way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The usual source for such a calculation is the cake recipe<\/strong>, where the ingredients and their amounts are listed. From such a list, we can calculate the total amount of calories in the cake by summing up the ingredient amounts multiplied by the calories-per-amount numbers for each ingredient. The recipe\"Opens<\/a> author may actually have done that for us and give us a number of calories per slice or serving right there, in the recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if we do not find nutritional information in the recipe or don’t want to do the calculation, we might as well search the web, using a phrase like “how many calories in a slice of cake?<\/em>“. However, the results from such a search can be as misleading as the numbers in a recipe or something we try to calculate ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, you might say: Why? And how bad can that actually be?<\/strong> Read on to find out! For this article, I have taken the time to <\/p>\n\n\n\n