This is the second cake I made. The first was my 'grad' cake from my Wilton I course and that thing was terrible! I borrowed this idea from here and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Still need some practice smoothing out the icing, but I guess that will come in time. It's also not level, but that's because I was in a rush and did it while the cake was still warm! Oops! Thanks for looking!