Dumb Question...how Do You Fill A Cake?
Decorating By nickymom Updated 17 Jan 2007 , 12:13am by alicegop
I've been reading where people say they fill their cakes with like cookies & cream filling. Does that just mean they cut a cavity into the cakes & then fill them w/ the filling or does that just mean that is the the stuff they ice the first layer w/ before they stack the 2nd and so n?
You can either bake two cakes and apply your filling to the top of one of the layers and then place the second layer (cake) on top of that and then ice the cake as usual OR you can bake one cake, torte that and then add the filling and then replace the top half.
Amy 
Or you can bake 2 layers and torte both of them like I do! 
It's important no matter how you do it that you:
-make a dam of stiff icing about 1/4in inside the layer using a coupler without a tip or use a tip 12
-don't fill above the dam
-allow your cake time to sit after you have filled and placed all the layers back in place. This gives the cake time to rest and you time to see if you are going to have any places that leak so you can fix it before it becomes a major mess or an unsightly buldge.
I use an icing dam (better to use a medium to stiff) and fill in the filling, but at a recent party someone brought a costco cake and there was my cake. I had a thin layer of filling and costco filling was like an inch thick! (of course they only torted a single layer of cake......)
How thick is everyone's filling? Once smashed in the two layers mine seems to be a pencil line ish. I've decided to start triple torting the cake, but how do I get more filling into the cake?
You NEED the icing dam, that is definately a requirement. I've used lots of things as fillings (pie filling, pudding as well as fillings from the cake supply store), the only one I've really had a problem with was chocolate syrup... too runny, made a HUGE MESS!
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