I have a couple of questions, I hope someone wants to help a newbie

OK . When do you carve the tiers in the right shape? Do you have any fillings in the cakes, are you in that case carve them after or befor you put it in the cakes? I'm most curious how you carve the bottom side on the second and third tiers...?

How do you get the fondant right along the sides, the diameter is really smaller at the bottom?!

That's what I can come up with know, I'll guess I'll be back

There are several methods of whimsical cake construction.

Here's a CC article on stacked cakes that have the illusion of being crooked:

http://www.cakecentral.com/article1-Instructions-For-Building-A-Whimsical-Tilted-Cake.html

Carved with Dowels:

http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.proicer/message/saved/TILTEDCAKES.htm

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/20/04712146/0471214620.pdf

Dowel and Wedge Construction:
(Cakes aren't cut, just angled to look tilted using foam wedges.)

http://tinyurl.com/yutp5w

Another tutorial:

http://www.cakejournal.com/2007/07/how-to-make-two-tired-whimsical-cake.html

Cake dummies from Dallas Foam:

http://www.dallas-foam.com/store/cakedummies.html

Info gleaned from these threads:

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-383903-.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-323173-.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-172201-.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-347043-.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-413983-.html

HTH

Ohh, thanx soo much!! Now I've got some reading to do

save for info...

thanks!!!

I just posted the exact same thread a couple days ago! I actually followed a different tutorial, one found on here but not the one in the articles. It was posted by doug with the link. It was a great big help! You might want to look at that article too! Seems simpler....