What does the inside of your cake look like? In each tier, do you have two layers with one layer of filling? Three cake layers with two fillings? Or do you torte two cake layers to make four cake and three filling? I hope my question was clear enough. I have always just done two cake layers but would it be better for some flavors of cake/fillings to have more? Thanks!

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I torte 2 layers into four.

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How thick do you make your fillings: 1/8"; 1/4"; 1/2" or does it depend on the type of filling?

I do it one of four ways, depending on what the clients wants/paid for/is in their budget....
Option 1, The Low Budget: 2-2" layers with icing or filling in the middle.
Option 2, Mid Range Option: 2-2" layers torted, same as leah.
Option 3, Mid-High End Range: 3-2" layers, cake filling cake filling cake
Option 4, High End Range: 3-2" layers, all torted, cake filling cake icing cake filling cake icing cake filling cake

If you do 4 layers of cake, do you pipe dams around the filling in every layer?

Any time I use filling I pipe dams

I torte 2 layers of cake so I end up with cake, filling, cake, filling, cake, filling, cake.
The only time I don't torte is when I have to do carving or when there's a slippery filling such as fresh strawberries or lemon curd, for these I'll just do cake, filling, cake.

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- i bake 3 inch high cakes - tort each cake into 3 layers -then fill each layer with ganache or whateve other fill i require to use.
My cakes are 6 inches high - minumum.

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In a four inch cake, I use about 5 or 6 layers filling. Thin!

Will try TexasSugars - thnks for sharing....

I did my first cake with 4 layers of cake in each tier, one with ganache filling and one with lemon curd filling. It was fabulous! I don't know why I never tried it. I'll do it that way from now on. Thanks for the advice! I love learning from yall. I've been in culinary school for a year now but haven't actually had a cake class yet. I just switched from culinary to baking and pastry.