How can the cake be cut into eight pieces with only three straight cuts?

Question

Answer 1

Possible solutions

Answer 2

One cut from the east to west direction. (2 parts)
Second cut from north to south direction. (2 * 2 = total 4)
Third cut in the middle -> top to down direction. (4 * 2 = total 8)

Answer 3

One horizantal cut and two vertical cross cuts...............

Answer 4

cut the cake into 4 parts with longest diagonal.and lastly from the middle.......

Answer 5

Cut the cake into 4 pieces, stack the
pieces and cut along the middle.
Hence, eight pieces of cake!