Covered in fondant, with fondant ropes, real popcorn garland, chocolate pinecones, with a sugar cookie/royal icing covered star cookie at the top. The cake was chocolate with a chocolate ganache and peppermint candycane buttercream filling, covered in chocolate ganache and then fondant. I used the "no-hole" topsy turvy method with royal icing between tiers as glue and two dowels to stabilize the structure. It worked surprisingly well and less work then cutting out the hole.