This cake settled and I was so upset! I should have known especially on an extremely hot and humid day. I was upset until it arrived at the party and people went nuts over it! Nobody beleived it was a real cake! This cake is 5 8" round layers seperated by a cake board under the second layer from the top. This helped when cutting the cake. I had a single dowel through the whole cake and two additional dowels under the seperating cake board. I colored the fondant before covering the cake and I covered the cake just i would any other cake instead of wrapping it. I painted some details on the cake. The froth is buttercream. The handle is fondant. The cupcakes have custom wrappers and are also choc with choc buttercream. The cake board is covered in fondant and imprinted with a wood press/ I panited this with watered down color and it really gave a "bar" feel.