Originally Posted by TanyaL

A cake walk is a popular, old fashioned way to raise money at fairs and carnivals- usually church or school events. A pathway is laid out made up of numbered squares. Tickets are sold equal to the number of squares on the path. You buy a ticket. When the cake walk starts, everyone walks while music plays. When the music stops, a number is called. If you are standing on the block equal to that number you win the cake that corresponds to that number. Ideally there is a cake for each number. Obviously there will be an unstated competition between bakers for the best looking and best tasting cake.