Cake bulge?  Hmm, it means you have overfilled your cake. If you like the taste of filling, I would recommend torting your cake a couple of times, then create a dam of icing to hold the filling in. Do not go over that dam because then you will have filling leakage. Then once you have all your layers on, make sure your rounds are even and level. If you have any cake over hanging or uneven, you will want to trim the cake so it is all even. Once your cake is level and even all the way around, you will want to crumb coat the cake. Refrigerate for a bit, then put a nice even coat of icing on the cake. If you are covering with fondant, then you will want to cover with 1/16th thickeness of fondant over the cake and finish with your fondant smoother.

 

Can you fix the bulge? No, not really. However, if it is iced, then you will have to remove the icing, remove the layers, remove the extra filling and re-do. Now many times, this is just not feasible. So creating a new cake is the only answer.

 

I hope this helps!!! Until next week, best Ro....