I found the animation with the slice of cake getting removed from the whole cake pretty neat, and I know that last year's cake has the missing glow and a slice to show that it wasn't freshly made but could you leave those animations in and instead only remove the golden glow. It is really cool to watch the slice as it gets removed instead of there being no animation when you and your group takes and eats a slice.
Also, this isn't that important, but could you add a furniture version of Jubilee cake that costs a lot of gold and has a toggle for showing and removing a slice of cake?