How to deal with a piece of cake (6)

I believe the answer is:

easily

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'how' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for easily that I've seen before include "Comfortably" , "no problem!" , "with little effort" , "Without difficulty or effort" , "Simply" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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