i am in the planning stages of a large cake for my sons school. he is in a private christian school and they want a happy birthday jesus cake....very very tall....as the kids have been talking about how everyone in town is getting ready for the biggest birthday party ever (christmas lights , trees, cooking etc). so i am trying to think of how to get a really amazing tall cake. they need it to serve about 65. my thought is to do 3 cakes per tier rather than 2 so i can do the inverted hourglass type shape where it is wide at the top, narrow in the middle and wide again at the bottom, with 3 or 4 stacked tiers carved like that. my question is...how difficult would it be to cover that shape in fondant? i have not tried it...i have done round and square, but never something like that that is taller and shaped. if you have tried this , please share your tips and ideas on how to pull it off. thanks!!!!

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I did a witches hat where it was 10" at the bottom and went to a point at the top (in my photos; last picture). Not too terribly hard. But big to little to big again?? Anyway you could do it in 2 sections and put them together in the middle? with some kind of decorating hiding the contact?

It's really not hard at all all. You just cover it like a regular round tier but push it in at the "waist".