Made this for my niece. She wanted a root beer cake! I used 5 8" layers with strawberry filling. The ice cream scoops are fondant covered styrofoam airbrushed ivory! Over cooked poured sugar runs down the dowel. Not my best work, but this was a short notice cake, i only had a few hours to complete it. I even used box mixes. Shhhhhhhhh! She loved it! Thank god for kids!!!!