Hi all, tonight I'm making my first cake for "other than family" and its not going well!! 
I've made a WASC with BC Dream and strawberry glaze filling. I torted the layers so I have 4 layers of cake and 3 layers of filling. So...I guess my question is, at what point do I need to put support layers in? My filling leaked out despite a pretty good size dam of BC aroung the edges of all layers. Its like the cake is just too heavy. I've patched as well as possible and put in fridge. Is it going to get worse?? Can I get by with this? Should I deconstruct and reconstruct with support? BTW I'm going to line the outside with pirouline cookies anyway, so the sides wont really be visible, but I don't want the thing to collapse!! HELP!! 
You shouldnt have to support layers of a single tier (unless they are unusually tall like more than 6 inches). Sounds to me like you filling maybe is just too runny? Was your dam stiff enough? I think the cookies will help to disguise any problems, but it may continue to leak out...I had that happen once with lemon filling and I did disassemble it, but broke the cake in the process so I had to rebake the whole thing. So unless you are prepared for something like that I would just leave it be. The only other thing I might be concerned about is if you filling is runny that it might be soaking into your layers?
Thread on leaky fillings and bulging layers:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-223481-.html
HTH
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