Mad Hatter Cake

So one of my good friends decided to throw a Mad Hatter Tea Party for her sister's birthday. Both sisters are friends of mine and so I was delighted to help out with the cake. I got a bunch of new cake decorating supplies around Christmas time but I've been so busy that I hadn't had a chance to use them.

For the Mad Hatter Tea Party we figured it would be suitable to build a 'Mad Hatter' cake.

Mad Hatter Cakes are also known as "Topsy Turvey" cakes because of the fact that they look like they're about to fall over all the time.
Of course the trick for the baker and decorator is to make sure that the cake will defy gravity and stay intact, like the leaning tower of Pisa.