I did like kelleym and asked the one and only friend who I'd trust to do a cake for me. She gladly obliged. I was doing the cake for free but I decided to pay my friend myself because it was rather short notice and I actually bought...
I use Alton Brown's recipe from www.foodtv.com. It is easy and fantastic. The last one I made I messed up and it tasted better than the previous one. Good luck.
That will work, but when I used to do it that way, the only problem I ran into was that the cakes weren't even. I was able to see the ridge between the cakes.
I made NFSC yesterday and it was very crumbly after I chilled it. I wasn't sure why it did that, I followed the recipe exactly. So I just added a bit of milk to the dough, just enough to make the dough form a ball when squeezed in my...