How Would You Go About Doing A Cake Like This?
Decorating By nglez09 Updated 26 Mar 2007 , 10:18pm by paolacaracas
hi nick, yeah, i think the same concept. it looks stacked with the angles all on the same side. in colettes book cakes to dream on, she talks about doweling a lllliiiiiiiiiittle bit different for a topsy turvey. i think she says to put several center dowels through the cake. i think as long as there is plenty of internal support it would hold up fine. are you thinking of doing one like it???
Go to colettescakes.com. Click on wedding cakes and then on the picture of the woman's face. The cake that comes up was real with a few styro wedges.
Colette was on vacation and her staff built it. She tells the story with great awe--even she wasn't sure how it stayed up. She also gave them a good lecture on taking "crooked"a little too far 
As I recall, there are actually several "central" dowels through the layers, i.e. 1 thru tiers 1 & 2, 1 thru 1,2,3 , 1 thru 1,2,3,4 etc. and plenty of support dowels in each level.
Transport on one of these would not be my idea of a relaxing drive ....
Rae
wow, nick, were did you got this cake from?
how would I do it?, Styrofoam baby, Or I'll have a stroke on my way to the event for sure...
I'd hope they used styrofoam, Paola.
Did they though? I don't think I want to attempt this. . .plus, whomever looked at it (at least the people we know) would think it was a messed up cake- that it wasn't supposed to be like that and that I blew it!
i agree...i have yet to do a topsy turvey simply because i want to get really really good at cakes in general FIRST, so that when i finally DO get around to doing one, people will totally get it that i did it that way on PURPOSE, and think it still looks cool.
We have one at the window in my shop. People actually come in worried to warn us that our cake is falling! 
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