Good question, Jean. There are a few different approaches you can try to ensure your three cake layers all turn out well and bake evenly. If your oven is large enough, you can try to fit all three cakes on the same rack, and diligently rotate the cake pans part-way through baking. If they don't all fit on one rack, you're better off using two racks rather than three. Again, be mindful about rotating the pans and start with two cake pans on the top and one on the bottom. We've found that this works with some of our test kitchen ovens quite successfully but not others, so you may want to do a test run beforehand if possible. (In some cases the bottom cake just turned out wonky, in the words of one test kitchen baker!) The last option is to bake two cakes at a time and leave the third out of the oven to rest at room temperature until there's room to bake the last layer. While this approach isn't ideal, but we have found that the baking results are most even with this approach. We hope this gives you some things to try. Happy baking! Kye@KAF

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