I am making an wedding cake for tomorrow (Saturday), and of course my 12" round has a crack in the middle. Is there anyway I can salvage this cake without rebaking it, or will it just cave in when I put the other cake on it? It will have an 8" round on top in stacked construction. Thanks!

You may be able to salvage it, but I had the same thing happen to me on a 14" square and I just did another one .. I was too scared the entire thing would split like the Red Sea and I'd have a cake disaster on my hands...

maybe some other more experienced bakers know a good trick fix for this situation

I had this happen to me yesterday, with a 14" round. The bottom layer split into 3 pieces, and the top layer split right in half. All I did was put a bit of icing in the cracks and push them back together. I had a 10" stacked on top of it and it held up just fine.

Thanks for your input melissablack!! Sometimes I'm a sceptic, well make that a lot of times I probably could have gotten away doing the same thing with my cracked cake...

Jenni27, just make sure you have a really sturdy cakeboard under your cake to support the weight ..

Yes, even though mine was just a two tiered cake, I had it on an MDF board. The board probably weighed more than the cake, lol, but it was really sturdy.