First stacked cake: lemon cake filled with lemon curd and iced with buttercream, decorated with chocolate chips, licorice strings, orange gumdrops, dried strawberries, and gummy sharks.
Lessons learned:
- Leveling the cake is very important, especially when stacking multiple layers. Oops, shouldn't have skipped that step!
- Icing dams are crucial, especially when using a soft filling like lemon curd. Oops, shouldn't have skipped that step either!
- Dollar store bamboo skewers work great for stacking cakes and they're much cheaper than Wilton's dowel rods.