This was a special request by the birthday boy, my Hubby! It was by far one of the hardest cakes I've done, which is weird because it looks so simple. It is a yellow cake base (The Downy Yellow All Occasion I believe) made with "The Rose Factor" via instruction from The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum. I brushed the layers with simple syrup laced with rum, and filled them with an experimental recipe of reduced fresh strawberries. I did a very thick buttecream dam due to the gel textured sauce being piled high between the 4 layers, and covered the outside of the cake using Toba Garrett's method of making a "spackle" out of cake crumbs, buttercream and filling. The MMF was Tonedna's recipe from Design Me A Cake dot com. The buttercream recipe was wilton's. Thanks for looking!