I can't speak for cake, but I suspect it's as much an aesthetic thing as anything. Example from art: if you were insistent on viewing the Mona Lisa from a cubi

I can't speak for cake, but I suspect it's as much an aesthetic thing as anything. Example from art: if you were insistent on viewing the Mona Lisa from a cubist aesthetic, it would be a crummy painting. It's not a moral assertion as such, though.