Well, that answer wasn't anything L could work with, though he supposed it meant that there wasn't anything overtly odd about how the cake tasted. (Yes, Light. L baked you a cake because he wants to help establish a friendship between the two of you. That's exactly what happened.) L backed off a little to let Light eat in relative peace, though he was still eying Light like a hawk, only from a slightly farther distance away. And for his part, he did consider his own cake briefly, running the tip of a finger across the top of the cake to pick up a small amount of icing. When poisoning or otherwise altering cake there were two distinct possibilities: that the poison was in the cake itself, baked within it in the oven, or that the poison was in the icing. In fact, it was more common within the icing, as whatever poison there was would have to be resilient enough to retain its poisonous qualities under high heat. Of course, there was also the possibility of something in the icing in combination with something in the cake set off a reaction, but that was much less of a possibility, especially with Misa as the cook.

L spoke first to the icing on his finger, "I'm not hungry." While it wasn't a lie in particular, as L rarely felt hungry with how much he liked to eat and how often, it was odd to be used as an excuse not to eat. At least, that is, when coming from L.